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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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.






4. 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 ______.






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






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






11. 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.






12. 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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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 ______.






23. 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: _______.






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






25. 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






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






33. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






36. 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






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






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






39. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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






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






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