You need to ensure that Server2 can host a secondary zone for contoso.com

Your network contains two servers named Server1 and Server2. Both servers run Windows
Server 2012 R2 and have the DNS Server server role installed.
On Server1, you create a standard primary zone named contoso.com.
You need to ensure that Server2 can host a secondary zone for contoso.com.
What should you do from Server1?

Your network contains two servers named Server1 and Server2. Both servers run Windows
Server 2012 R2 and have the DNS Server server role installed.
On Server1, you create a standard primary zone named contoso.com.
You need to ensure that Server2 can host a secondary zone for contoso.com.
What should you do from Server1?

A.
Add Server2 as a name server.

B.
Create a trust anchor named Server2.

C.
Convert contoso.com to an Active Directory-integrated zone.

D.
Create a zone delegation that points to Server2.

Explanation:
Typically, adding a secondary DNS server to a zone involves three steps:
1. On the primary DNS server, add the prospective secondary DNS server to the list of name
servers that are authoritative for the zone.
2. On the primary DNS server, verify that the transfer settings for the zone permit the zone to
be transferred to the prospective secondary DNS server.
3. On the prospective secondary DNS server, add the zone as a secondary zone.
You must add a new Name Server. To add a name server to the list of authoritative servers
for the zone, you must specify both the server’s IP address and its DNS name. When
entering names, click Resolve to resolve the name to its IP address prior to adding it to the
list.
Secondary zones cannot be AD-integrated under any circumstances.
You want to be sure Server2 can host, you do not want to delegate a zone.
Secondary Domain Name System (DNS) servers help provide load balancing and fault
tolerance. Secondary DNS servers maintain a read-only copy of zone data that is transferred
periodically from the primary DNS server for the zone. You can configure DNS clients to
query secondary DNS servers instead of (or in addition to) the primary DNS server for a
zone, reducing demand on the primary server and ensuring that DNS queries for the zone
will be answered even if the primary server is not available.
How-To: Configure a secondary DNS Server in Windows Server 2012
We need to tell our primary DNS that it is ok for this secondary DNS to pull information from
it. Otherwise replication will fail and you will get this big red X.

Head over to your primary DNS server, launch DNS manager, expand Forward Lookup
Zones, navigate to your primary DNS zone, right-click on it and go to Properties.

Go to “Zone Transfers” tab, by default, for security reasons, the “Allow zone transfers: ” is
un-checked to protect your DNS information. We need to allow zone transfers, if you value
your DNS records, you do not want to select “To any server” but make sure you click on
“Only to servers listed on the Name Servers tab”

Head over to the “Name Servers” tab, click Add

You will get “New Name Server Record” window, type in the name of your secondary DNS
server. it is always better to validate by name not IP address to avoid future problems in
case your IP addresses change. Once done, click OK.

You will see your secondary DNS server is now added to your name servers selection, click OK.

Now if you head back to to your secondary DNS server and refresh, the big red X will go
away and your primary zone data will populate.

Your secondary DNS is fully setup now. You can not make any DNS changes from your
secondary DNS. Secondary DNS is a read-only DNS, Any DNS changes have to be done
from the primary DNS.
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JohnyBoy

JohnyBoy

Tested.
Correct

John

John

A. Add Server2 as a name server.

Reinhard Rensburg

Reinhard Rensburg

D is correct (Create a Zone Deligation) – Parent domain contoso.com already exists on Server 1, a conditional forwarder will not work as server 1 has the ability to provide an authorative answer to things in the contoso.com domain (including child domains). Forwarders only come into play when the zone is not hosted locally on the DNS Server(s). In this case, delegation is necessary to tell server 1 to ignore the requests for ad.contoso.com and pass them on to Server 2.

Simon

Simon

D is NOT correct. Your answer is way off target.

Passhh

Passhh

The answer is correct