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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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






2. 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.






3. 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:






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






12. 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.






13. 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 ______.






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. ______ 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.






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






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






33. 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






34. 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.






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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 ______.






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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






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