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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. 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 ______.






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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. 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.






16. 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.






17. 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:






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






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






20. 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.






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






24. 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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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






30. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






43. 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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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 ______.