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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






4. 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.






5. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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 ______.






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






15. 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: _______.






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






17. 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






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. 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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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:






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






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






31. 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 ______.






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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






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






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






48. ______ 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.






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






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