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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






12. 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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. 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:






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. 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 ______.






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






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






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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. 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.






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