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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






2. 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






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. 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 ______.






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






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






19. 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: _______.






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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 ______.






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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






45. 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.






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 ______ 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.






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






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






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