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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When you create a new zone - two types of records required for the zone are automatically created: ______






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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. 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 ______.






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. 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






19. 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.






20. 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






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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 ______.