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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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






21. 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.






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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






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






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






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






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






31. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






34. 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






35. 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






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






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






38. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






49. ______ 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.






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