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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. 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 ______.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. 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






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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






31. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






38. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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 ______ 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.






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