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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






3. 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.






4. 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






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






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






7. ______ 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.






8. 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 ______.






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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 ______.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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: _______.






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






33. 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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






42. 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:






43. 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






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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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






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