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Test your basic knowledge |

MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What is the name of the record that contains a hash of the public key in a delegated subdomain?






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






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






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. 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.






6. 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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. 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.






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






17. 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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






26. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






29. 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:






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






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






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






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






35. ______ 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.






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. The _____ option stores the zone in the domain partition. Every DC in the local domain will receive a copy of the zone - regardless of whether the DNS Server role is installed on that DC.






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






49. 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.






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






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