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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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






11. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






12. 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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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 ______.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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: _______.






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






38. ______ 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.






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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