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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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






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






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






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






5. 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: _______.






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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






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






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. ______ 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.






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






24. 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.






25. When you do not store a zone in AD - the zone is called a ______ zone - and zone data is stored in text files on the DNS server.






26. 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.






27. 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.






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






29. 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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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.






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






40. 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:






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






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






43. 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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






48. 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






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






50. 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.