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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






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






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






18. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






19. 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.






20. 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






21. 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: _______.






22. 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






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






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






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






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. 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 ______.






31. 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:






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






39. 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 ______.






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






49. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






50. 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