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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






2. 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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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 ______.






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






13. 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






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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 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:






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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 ______.






34. ______ 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.






35. 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






36. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. 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: _______.






40. 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






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






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






43. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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






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






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






50. 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.