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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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






6. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. Win 7 clients can be configured to request DNSSEC through the Name Resolution Policy Table (NRPT) in ______.






12. 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.






13. The _____ option stores the zone in the domain partition. Every DC in the local domain will receive a copy of the zone - regardless of whether the DNS Server role is installed on that DC.






14. 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.






15. This operation reloads the secondary zone from the local storage.






16. 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.






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






18. You must be a member of the ______ group to create an application directory partition.






19. What does the 10 refer to in the following example: _ldap._tcp SRV 0 0 389 dc1.lucernepublishing.com.SRV 10 0 389 dc2.lucernepublishing.com.






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






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






22. 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.






23. ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






24. The value you configure in the ______ text box determines how long a secondary server waits before retrying a failed zone transfer. Normally - this time is less than the refresh interval. The default value is 10 minutes.






25. 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:






26. 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.






27. The ______ option stores the zone in the user-created application directory partition specified in the associated drop-down list box.






28. 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.






29. ______ are public keys from other zones that are used to validate digitally signed records originating from those zones and from delegated subdomains that are also DNSSEC-compatible.






30. To configure notifications - click ______ on the Zone Transfers tab when zone transfers are enabled.






31. DNSSEC in Win Server 2008 R2 allows a ______ to validate DNS data on behalf of its Win 7 clients.






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






33. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






36. What is the name of the record that contains a hash of the public key in a delegated subdomain?






37. 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






38. A secondary zone will not be recognized as a valid name server until it contains a valid copy of zone data. For the secondary zone to obtain this data - you must first ______ to that server.






39. Also recommended for use in the following scenarios: When a host specified in an A resource record in the same zone needs to be renamed - When a generic name for a well-known server such as www needs to resolve to a group of individual computers tha






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






41. Manually created resource records for all zone types are assigned a time stamp of 0; this value indicates that they ______ be aged.






42. The Zone Transfers tab also allows you to configure ______ to secondary servers whenever a change occurs at the primary zone.






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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