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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






25. 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 ______.






26. 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






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






40. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






44. 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: _______.






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. 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