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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






19. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






21. 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.






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. 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.






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. ______ are public keys from other zones that are used to validate digitally signed records originating from those zones and from delegated subdomains that are also DNSSEC-compatible.






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






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. 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.






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






42. Also recommended for use in the following scenarios: When a host specified in an A resource record in the same zone needs to be renamed - When a generic name for a well-known server such as www needs to resolve to a group of individual computers tha






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






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. 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 ______.






46. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






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






50. 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.