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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






20. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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.






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






29. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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 ______.






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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 ______.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. ______ 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.