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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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






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






9. ______ 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.






10. 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 ______.






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






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






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






14. 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






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






17. 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.






18. 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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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: _______.






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






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






46. 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:






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






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






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






50. 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.