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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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: _______.






23. 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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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






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






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






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. 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.






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






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






46. ______ 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.






47. 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.






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. 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.






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