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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. ______ 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.






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. 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






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






23. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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 ______.






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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






36. 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






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






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






39. 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:






40. 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






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






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






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






44. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






45. 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






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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.