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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






7. 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.






8. 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:






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






10. 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






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






12. 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 ______.






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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: _______.






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






28. 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 ______.






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






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






31. 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.






32. The value you configure in the ______ text box determines how long a secondary server waits before retrying a failed zone transfer. Normally - this time is less than the refresh interval. The default value is 10 minutes.






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. 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