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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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






4. 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.






5. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






6. 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






7. 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.






8. The value you configure in the ______ text box determines how long a secondary server waits before retrying a failed zone transfer. Normally - this time is less than the refresh interval. The default value is 10 minutes.






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






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






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






12. 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 ______.






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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






43. ______ 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.






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. 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






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






50. 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.