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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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 ______.






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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: _______.






37. 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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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