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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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.






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






45. 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.






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






47. 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 ______.






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






49. 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.






50. 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.