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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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.






3. 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






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. 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 ______.






6. 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: _______.






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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






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






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






38. 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.






39. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






40. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






41. The ______ option stores the zone in the user-created application directory partition specified in the associated drop-down list box.






42. ______ 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.






43. 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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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