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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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: _______.






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






8. 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






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






17. ______ 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.






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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. 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.






38. 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 ______.






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






47. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






48. 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.






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






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