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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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: _______.






3. 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.






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






6. 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 ______.






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






8. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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:






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. 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.






50. ______ 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.