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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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 ______.






2. 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.






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






4. 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






5. 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






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






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






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






9. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. ______ 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.






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. 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.






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






26. 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 ______.






27. 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






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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:






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






45. 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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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






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