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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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






15. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






21. 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:






22. 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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. ______ 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 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.






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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