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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. 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 ______.






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. ______ 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.






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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 ______.






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. 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






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






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






24. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






26. 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.






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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






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. 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:






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. 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.






48. 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






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






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