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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






16. 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






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






18. 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 ______.






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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:






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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.






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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 ______.






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






47. 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: _______.






48. 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.






49. 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.






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