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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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: _______.






5. 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






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






9. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






11. 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 ______.






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






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 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.






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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 ______.






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. 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:






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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






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