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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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 ______.






9. ______ 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.






10. 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.






11. 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: _______.






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






13. 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.






14. 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 ______.






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. 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






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.