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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






20. 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






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






22. 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:






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






24. ______ 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.






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. 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






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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






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






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






34. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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 ______.






48. 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






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






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