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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






4. 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






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






6. 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 ______.






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






8. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






29. 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 ______.






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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: _______.






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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