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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






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






4. ______ 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.






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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.






13. 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:






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






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






16. 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.






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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 ______.






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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.






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