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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. 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.






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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






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






12. 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.






13. 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






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






15. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. 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:






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. 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






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. 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 ______.






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






50. 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.