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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






2. ______ 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.






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






4. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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






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






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






11. 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 ______.






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






13. 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.






14. 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:






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. 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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






25. 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.






26. 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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. 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: _______.






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






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






49. DNSSEC enables a DNS server to ______ the resource records in its zones.






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