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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. ______ 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.






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. 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.






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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. 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






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






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






18. 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: _______.






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. 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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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:






42. 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.






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






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






45. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.