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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. ______ 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.






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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 ______.






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






29. 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.






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






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






49. 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.






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