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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






17. 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






18. 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 ______.






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






46. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






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






50. 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.