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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






4. 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






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






6. 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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






20. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






23. 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






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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: _______.






50. 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