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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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






4. 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.






5. 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






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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.






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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.






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






29. 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: _______.






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






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






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






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






34. 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:






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






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






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






50. 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 ______.