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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. 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.






3. 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:






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. 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 ______.






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






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






15. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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






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






28. 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






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. ______ 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.






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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