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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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






4. 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: _______.






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. 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 ______.






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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






19. 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:






20. 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






21. 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.






22. 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 ______.






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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. 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.






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






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 _____ 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.






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






50. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.