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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






2. 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






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






4. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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: _______.






10. 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.






11. A ______ is a data structure in AD that distinguishes data for different replication purposes.






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. The source zones from which secondary zones acquire their info are called ______ - and the data copy procedures through which this info is regularly updated are called zone transfers.






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. 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:






37. This operation performs a zone transfer from the secondary zone's master server regardless of the serial number in the secondary zone's SOA resource record.






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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 ______.