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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. 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: _______.






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






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






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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






29. 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.






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






31. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






32. 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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






49. 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 ______.






50. 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.