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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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 ______.






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






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






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






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






20. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






31. 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:






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. 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 ______.






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






44. 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






45. 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.






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






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. 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.






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






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