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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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.






4. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






7. 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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. 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 ______.






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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.






31. 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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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:






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. ______ 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.






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