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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






6. 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 ______.






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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:






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






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






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






19. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






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. 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 ______.






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. 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: _______.






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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






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






47. 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.






48. 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






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






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