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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






4. 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






5. ______ 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.






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






22. 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.






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. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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 ______.






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






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






45. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






46. 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: _______.






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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 ______.







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