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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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






3. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






4. 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.






5. 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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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






19. 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.






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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: _______.






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 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 ______ 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.






42. 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






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






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






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






46. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






47. 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.






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






49. 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 ______.






50. 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.