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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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






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






3. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. 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






13. 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: _______.






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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. 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. 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.






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






27. ______ 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.






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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 ______.






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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.






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






45. 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:






46. 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.






47. When scavenging is not enabled - you can perform manual scavenging in zones by right-clicking the server icon in the DNS Manager console tree and then choosing ______.






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






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