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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






21. 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






22. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






23. 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






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






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






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






27. Active Directory-integrated zones perform time stamping for dynamically registered records by default - even before aging and scavenging are enabled. However - primary standard zones place time stamps on dynamically registered records in the zone onl






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






43. 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 ______.






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. 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






46. 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.






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






48. If either of the default application directory partitions is deleted or damaged - you can re-create them in DNS Manager by right-clicking the server node and choosing ______.






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






50. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.