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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. 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 ______.






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






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






11. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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 ______.






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






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






46. 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.






47. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






48. 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.






49. 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






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