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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






3. 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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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






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






17. 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 ______.






18. 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.






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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