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






3. 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.






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






5. 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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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






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






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






13. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






15. 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 ______.






16. 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






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. ______ 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.






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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