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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. The no-refresh interval is the period after a time stamp during which a zone or server rejects a ______ refresh. The default no-refresh interval is 7 days.






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






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. 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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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:






16. 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.






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






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






19. The value you configure in the ______ text box determines how long a secondary DNS server waits before querying the master server for a zone renewal. The default value for this setting is 15 minutes.






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






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






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






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






24. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. By default - DCs include two application directory partitions reserved for DNS data: ______.






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






37. Together - aging and scavenging provide a mechanism to ______ resource records - which can accumulate in zone data over time. Both aging and scavenging are disabled by default.






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






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






40. 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






41. 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 ______.






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






43. 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.






44. 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: _______.






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






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






47. What are the server requirements for storing a zone in AD?






48. ______ resource records are used to specify the location of specific services in a domain.






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






50. 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.