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Your network contains a DNS server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2. Server1 has
a zone named contoso.com. The network contains a server named Server2 that runs Windows
Server 2008 R2. Server1 and Server2 are members of an Active Directory domain named
contoso.com.
You change the IP address of Server2.
Several hours later, some users report that they cannot connect to Server2.
On the affected users’ client computers, you flush the DNS client resolver cache, and the users
successfully connect to Server2.
You need to reduce the amount of time that the client computers cache DNS records from
contoso.com.
Which value should you modify in the Start of Authority (SOA) record? To answer, select the
appropriate setting in the answer area.
A.
Microsoft DNS implementation copies the Default TTL setting to all newly created records their by
giving them all independent TTL settings.
SOA Minimum Field: The SOA minimum field has been overloaded in the past to have three different
meanings, the minimum TTL value of all RRs in a zone, the default TTL of RRs which did not contain a
TTL value and the TTL of negative responses.
Despite being the original defined meaning, the first of these, the minimum TTL value of all RRs in a
zone, has never in practice been used and is hereby deprecated. The second, the default TTL of RRs
which contain no explicit TTL in the master zone file, is relevant only at the primary server. After a
zone transfer all RRs have explicit TTLs and it is impossible to determine whether the TTL for a record
was explicitly set or derived from the default after a zone transfer. Where a server does not require
RRs to include the TTL value explicitly, it should provide a mechanism, not being the value of the
MINIMUM field of the SOA record, from which the missing TTL values are obtained. How this is done
is implementation dependent.
TTLs also occur in the Domain Name System (DNS), where they are set by an authoritative name
server for a particular resource record. When a caching (recursive) nameserver queries the
authoritative nameserver for a resource record, it will cache that record for the time (in seconds)
specified by the TTL. If a stub resolver queries the caching nameserver for the same record before
the TTL has expired, the caching server will simply reply with the already cached resource record
rather than retrieve it from the authoritative nameserver again.
Shorter TTLs can cause heavier loads on an authoritative nameserver, but can be useful when
changing the address of critical services like Web servers or MX records, and therefore are often
lowered by the DNS administrator prior to a service being moved, in order to minimize disruptions.
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QUESTION 167
Your network contains a single Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a
domain controller named DC1 that hosts the primary DNS zone for contoso.com.
All servers dynamically register their host names.
You install three new Web servers that host identical copies of your company’s intranet website. The
servers are configured as shown in the following table. 
You need to use DNS records to load balance name resolution queries for intranet.contoso.com
between the three Web servers.
What is the minimum number of DNS records that you should create manually?
1
A.
Microsoft DNS implementation copies the Default TTL setting to all newly created records their by
giving them all independent TTL settings.
SOA Minimum Field: The SOA minimum field has been overloaded in the past to have three different
meanings, the minimum TTL value of all RRs in a zone, the default TTL of RRs which did not contain a
TTL value and the TTL of negative responses.
Despite being the original defined meaning, the first of these, the minimum TTL value of all RRs in a
zone, has never in practice been used and is hereby deprecated. The second, the default TTL of RRs
which contain no explicit TTL in the master zone file, is relevant only at the primary server. After a
zone transfer all RRs have explicit TTLs and it is impossible to determine whether the TTL for a record
was explicitly set or derived from the default after a zone transfer. Where a server does not require
RRs to include the TTL value explicitly, it should provide a mechanism, not being the value of the
MINIMUM field of the SOA record, from which the missing TTL values are obtained. How this is done
is implementation dependent.
TTLs also occur in the Domain Name System (DNS), where they are set by an authoritative name
server for a particular resource record. When a caching (recursive) nameserver queries the
authoritative nameserver for a resource record, it will cache that record for the time (in seconds)
specified by the TTL. If a stub resolver queries the caching nameserver for the same record before
the TTL has expired, the caching server will simply reply with the already cached resource record
rather than retrieve it from the authoritative nameserver again.
Shorter TTLs can cause heavier loads on an authoritative nameserver, but can be useful when
changing the address of critical services like Web servers or MX records, and therefore are often
lowered by the DNS administrator prior to a service being moved, in order to minimize disruptions.
httpHYPERLINK “http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297510/en-us#_blank”: //supportHYPERLINK
“http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297510/en-us#_blank”. microsoftHYPERLINK
“http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297510/en-us#_blank”. com/kb/297510/en-us
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“http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297510/en-us#_blank”. microsoftHYPERLINK
“http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297510/en-us#_blank”. com/kb/297510/en-us
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“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live#_blank”. wikipediaHYPERLINK
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“http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2308.html#_blank”. org/rfcs/rfc2308HYPERLINK
“http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2308.html#_blank”. html#ixzz0qVpTEitk
QUESTION 167
Your network contains a single Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a
domain controller named DC1 that hosts the primary DNS zone for contoso.com.
All servers dynamically register their host names.
You install three new Web servers that host identical copies of your company’s intranet website. The
servers are configured as shown in the following table.
You need to use DNS records to load balance name resolution queries for intranet.contoso.com
between the three Web servers.
What is the minimum number of DNS records that you should create manually?
1
B.
3
C.
4
D.
6
Explanation:
The Default TTL, is just that a default for newly created records. Once the records are created their
TTL is independent of the Default TTL on the SOTo create DNS Host (A) Records for all internal pool servers
1. Click Stabrt, click All Programs, click Administrative Tools, and then click DNS.
2. In DNS Manager, click the DNS Server that manages your records to expand it.
3. Click Forward Lookup Zones to expand it.
4. Right-click the DNS domain that you need to add records to, and then click New Host (A or AAAA).
5. In the Name box, type the name of the host record (the domain name will be automatically
appended).
6. In the IP Address box, type the IP address of the individual Front End Server and then select Create
associated pointer (PTR) record or Allow any authenticated user to update DNS records with the
same owner name, if applicable.
7. Continue creating records for all member Front End Servers that will participate in DNS Load
Balancing.
For example, if you had a pool named pool1.contoso.com and three Front End Servers, you would
create the following DNS entries:
httpHYPERLINK “http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772506.aspx#_blank”:
//technetHYPERLINK “http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772506.aspx#_blank”.
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httpHYPERLINK “http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398251.aspx#_blank”:
//technetHYPERLINK “http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398251.aspx#_blank”.
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This is two questions sandwiched into one. The answer to the second question is definitely 3 records.
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😀 you’re right
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