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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






2. 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.






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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:






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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: _______.






29. 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






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. 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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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 ______.






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






48. 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






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