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






3. 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: _______.






4. 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






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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:






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






18. 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 ______.






19. 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.






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






25. 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






26. 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.






27. 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.






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






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






31. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






32. 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.






33. ______ 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.






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






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






36. 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 ______.






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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.






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






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






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