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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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






6. 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






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






8. ______ 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.






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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






38. 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.






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






40. 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






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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