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Test your basic knowledge |

MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The ______ service uses SRV records to locate DCs in a domain by searching the domain for the LDAP service.






2. 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 ______.






3. 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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






26. 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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. 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






33. 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 ______.






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






44. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






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