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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






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






5. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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. 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.






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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. 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






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






43. 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.






44. 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






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






47. 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.






48. 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 ______.






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






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