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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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:






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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: _______.






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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






28. 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






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






30. 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 ______.






31. 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






32. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. ______ 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.






43. Used to facilitate the resolution of single-label computer names in a large network.






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






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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






50. 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.