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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. 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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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 ______.






17. 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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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: _______.






22. 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.






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






24. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






25. 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.






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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