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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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 ______.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. ______ 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.






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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






35. 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.






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






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






38. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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






44. 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.






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






46. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






49. 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.






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