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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. 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 ______.






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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:






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






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






27. ______ 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.






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. 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 ______.






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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






38. 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.






39. 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






40. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. 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: _______.






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






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






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






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






50. 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