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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






3. 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






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






11. A ______ is a database containing records that associate names with addresses for a defined portion of a DNS namespace.






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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: _______.






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






21. 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






22. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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






34. 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 ______.






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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 ______.






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






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






49. 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.






50. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.