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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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:






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






13. 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 ______.






14. 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: _______.






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. 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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.