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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. Consequently - when aging is enabled - dynamically registered resource records can be scavenged after ___ days by default.






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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






21. 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.






22. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






24. 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.






25. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. 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






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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






37. 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 ______.






38. 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.






39. 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






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






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






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






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






45. 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: _______.






46. 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 ______.






47. 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:






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






49. 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.






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