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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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.






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






4. 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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






30. 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.






31. 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 ______.






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. 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: _______.






45. 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






46. ______ 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.






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






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






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






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