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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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






2. 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.






3. 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.






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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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: _______.






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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:






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






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






43. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






44. A ______ zone provides original read-write source data that allows the local DNS server to answer DNS queries authoritatively about a portion of a DNS namespace.






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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






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