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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






5. 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:






6. 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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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: _______.






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






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






31. 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.






32. ______ 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.






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






34. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






49. 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 ______.






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