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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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: _______.






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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.






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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:






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






24. 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.






25. 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






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






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






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






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






30. ______ 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.






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






40. 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 ______.






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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.






49. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






50. 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.