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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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:






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. 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 ______.






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






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






22. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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 ______.






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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






36. 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






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. ______ 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.






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






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






44. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






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 ___________________ dialog box enables you to modify two key settings related to aging and scavenging: 1. the no-refresh interval 2. and the refresh interval






49. 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






50. 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.