Exam 6: Managing and Administering Dns in Windows Server 2008

The ____ contains a subset of the event logs relating specifically to DNS called DNS Events.

By default, FQDN is configured to provide dynamic updates to clients that support this feature.

A DNS server must support the SRV record type and dynamic update protocol, or Request for Comment (RFC)2136, to support an AD environment properly.

The ____ command lists all the vital information about the network connections on a client, including the DNS servers and suffixes.

What is the difference between a configuration partition and an application partition?

The term ____ can refer to the common practice of assigning an FQDN to a computer or device whose IP address changes from time to time.

A(n)____________________ server is similar to a DC in that it holds a directory services database.

____ is Microsoft's implementation of a directory services infrastructure.

What is the difference between a domain partition and a schema partition?

The ____ command forces registration or refresh of a DNS client's DNS records on the server specified as the Preferred DNS server.

At the ____ level, you can make configuration changes that are server specific. You can also perform maintenance tasks for a specific server.

What activities would you perform, at the DNS level, that is directly related to a specific record?

The Filter tab allows you to modify the view of the DNS Server log for better analysis of the events it contains. Briefly discuss the following options: Event types, Event source, and Category.

What tasks would you use the DNScmd tool to perform?

What are the benefits of using AD DNS?

Part of the netlogon service used by every client logging onto an Active Directory domain, the ____ runs at logon to provide the client with the location of a DC that can authenticate its requests.

____ are designed to limit the replication traffic across wide area network (WAN)links, as this traffic can affect performance for clients and users.

Every AD domain in Windows Server 2008 has a naming convention based on a DNS domain name.

Instead of using ping on an IP address, you can ping a server by host name or FQDN. If it responds when pinging by host name, your DNS suffixes are resolving properly, you can query the proper DNS zone, and the DNS zone has an A record created for it. Failure to resolve the host name or FQDN could be caused by a number of issues. Briefly discuss these issues.

In ____, the DNS database is stored in AD, and DNS replication occurs through the normal AD replication process.