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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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.






4. 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:






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. 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






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






14. ______ 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.






15. 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






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






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






18. 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 ______.






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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






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






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. 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.






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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