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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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 ______.






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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






18. 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






19. 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.






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






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






22. 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.






23. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






24. 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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






37. 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:






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. 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: _______.






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






48. 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






49. 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.






50. 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.