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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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:






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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. ______ 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.






23. 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: _______.






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






35. The ___________________ dialog box enables you to modify two key settings related to aging and scavenging: 1. the no-refresh interval 2. and the refresh interval






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






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






38. 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






39. 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.






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






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






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. 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 ______.






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.