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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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 ______.






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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 ______.






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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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: _______.






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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