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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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 ______.






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. 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






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






32. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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 ______.






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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.






43. ______ 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.






44. 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.






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






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






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






48. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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