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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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






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






5. 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:






6. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. 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






27. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






28. 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.






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. 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.






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. 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: _______.






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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.