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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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.






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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






23. 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 ______.






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






25. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. Consequently - when aging is enabled - dynamically registered resource records can be scavenged after ___ days by default.






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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.






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






46. 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:






47. 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.






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






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






50. ______ 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.