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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






10. 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.






11. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






12. 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.






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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 ______.






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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






40. ______ 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.






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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 ______.






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






47. 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:






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






49. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






50. 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.