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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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






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






6. 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






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






8. 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 ______.






9. 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.






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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:






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






47. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






48. 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.






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






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