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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. When you create a new zone - two types of records required for the zone are automatically created: ______






2. ______ zones provide a means to offload DNS query traffic in areas of the network where a zone is heavily queried and used.






3. The ______ service uses SRV records to locate DCs in a domain by searching the domain for the LDAP service.






4. A ______ is a database containing records that associate names with addresses for a defined portion of a DNS namespace.






5. For a DC to fall within the scope of such a directory partition - you must ______ that DC in the partition.






6. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






7. When the zone is stored in a file instead of AD - by default the primary zone file is named zone_name.dns - and this file is located in the ______ folder on the server.






8. For a delegation to be implemented - the parent zone must contain a _____ and an _____ (called a glue record) pointing to each authoritative server of the delegated domain.






9. Used to facilitate the resolution of single-label computer names in a large network.






10. You use Group Policy to configure DNS clients to _________________.






11. The refresh interval is the time after the no-refresh interval during which time stamp refreshes are ______ and resource records are not scavenged. The default refresh interval is 7 days.






12. When scavenging is not enabled - you can perform manual scavenging in zones by right-clicking the server icon in the DNS Manager console tree and then choosing ______.






13. To enlist other DNS servers in the partition - type the following command:






14. What kind of zones do not automatically perform time stamping on dynamically created resource records?






15. A ______ is a public key for a remote DNS server that is trusted and able to provide DNSSEC responses.






16. The ______ option stores the new zone in the ForestDnsZones partition. Every DC in the entire forest and on which the DNS Server role is installed will receive a copy of the zone.






17. To ______ a zone is to create a new zone for a subdomain within a DNS namespace and relinquish authority of that new zone.






18. A ______ zone is similar to a secondary zone - but it contains only those resource records necessary to identify the authoritative DNS servers for the master zone.






19. During this operation - the server hosting the local secondary zone determines whether the serial number in the secondary zone's SOA resource record has expired and then pulls a zone transfer from the master server.






20. To create a custom application directory partition - type the following command:






21. The four options presented on the _____________________ are the following: 1. To All DNS Servers In This Forest 2. To All DNS Servers In This Domain 3. To All DCs In This Domain 4. To All DCs Specified In The Scope Of This Directory Partition






22. DNSSEC enables a DNS server to ______ the resource records in its zones.






23. Any of three events can ________________: When the refresh interval of the primary zone's SOA resource record expires - When a server hosting a secondary zone boots up - When a change occurs in the configuration of the primary zone and this primary






24. When you do not store a zone in AD - the zone is called a ______ zone - and zone data is stored in text files on the DNS server.






25. The most common resource records you need to create manually include the following:






26. When you create a new zone - two types of records required for the zone are automatically created. List them.






27. In this way - digital signatures use ______ cryptography to prove that information is unspoofed and unchanged.






28. There are three basic steps in _______________: 1. Enable GlobalNames zone support. 2. Create the GlobalNames zone. 3. Populate the GlobalNames zone.






29. The value you configure in the ______ text box determines the default Time to Live (TTL) that is applied to all resource records in the zone. The default value is one hour.






30. The ______ option stores the new zone in the Domain-DnsZones partition. Every DC in the local domain and on which the DNS Server role is installed will receive a copy of the zone.






31. ______ in DNS refers to the process of using time stamps to track the age of dynamically registered resource records.






32. The ______ partition is replicated among all DCs that are also DNS servers in every domain in an AD forest.






33. The value you configure in the ______ text box determines the length of time that a secondary server - without any contact with its master server - continues to answer queries from DNS clients. After this time elapses - the data is considered unrelia






34. You can perform a delegation only from a ________________.






35. The GlobalNames zone is compatible only with DNS servers running ______. Therefore - it cannot replicate to servers running earlier versions of Windows Server.






36. DNS delegations are automatically used to separate ______ in a single forest.






37. By right-clicking a secondary zone in the DNS Manager console tree - you can use the shortcut menu to perform the following secondary zone update operations:






38. To enable aging for a particular zone - you have to enable this feature both at the ______ level.






39. To enable GlobalNames zone support - At an elevated command prompt - type the following: ______.






40. The first step in preparing a zone for DNSSEC is to back up the current zone data. To back up a zone - type the following command at an elevated command prompt: _______.






41. The ___________________ dialog box enables you to modify two key settings related to aging and scavenging: 1. the no-refresh interval 2. and the refresh interval






42. A ______ zone provides original read-write source data that allows the local DNS server to answer DNS queries authoritatively about a portion of a DNS namespace.






43. Public key cryptography provides ______ - which means that separate keys are used to encrypt and decrypt data.






44. The ______ allows you to specify the DNS query suffixes - prefixes - FQDNs - or reverse lookup subnets for which a Win 7 or Win Server 2008 R2 client will request DNSSEC.






45. To add an NS record - double-click any existing NS record in DNS Manager and add the server data to the ______ tab.






46. TTL values are not relevant for resource records within their authoritative zones. Instead - the TTL refers to ______ in nonauthoritative servers. A DNS server that has cached a resource record from a previous query discards the record when that reco






47. By default - zone transfers are ______ from any zone.






48. The ______ partition is replicated among all DCs that are also DNS servers in a particular domain






49. Alias resource records are sometimes called canonical names (CNAME). These records allow you to ______ a single host.






50. Consequently - when aging is enabled - dynamically registered resource records can be scavenged after ___ days by default.