Your company has one office in San Diego and one office in New York. The network consists of one
Active Directory forest that contains one domain named contoso.com and one domain named
newyork.contoso.com. All servers run Windows Server 2008. All domain controllers for contoso.com
are located in San Diego. All domain controllers for newyork.contoso.com are located in New York.
Contoso.com contains two domain controllers named Server1 and Server2. Newyork.contoso.com
contains two domain controllers named Server3 and Server4. All domain controllers host Active
Directory-integrated DNS zones for their respective domains. You need to ensure that users from
each office can resolve computer names for both domains from a local DNS server. What should you
do?
A.
Add the contoso.com and the newyork.contoso.com DNS zones to the ForestDNSZones partition.
B.
Create a stub DNS zone for contoso.com on Server3. Create a stub DNS zone for
newyork.contoso.com on Server1.
C.
Create a standard primary DNS zone named contoso.com on Server3. Create a standard primary
DNS zone named newyork.contoso.com on Server1.
D.
Configure conditional forwarders on Server1 to point to Server3. Configure conditional forwarders
on Server3 to point to Server1.
Explanation:
To ensure that users from each office can resolve computer names for both domains from a local
DNS server, you need to add the contoso.com and the Branch.contoso.com DNS zones to the
ForestDNSZones partition because the ForestDNSZones directory partition can be replicated among
all domain controllers (DCs) located in both the domains Contoso.com and Newyork.contoso.com in
the forest of the company. This is because all the domain controllers have the DNS service installed.
Once the DNS Zones data is replicated the users from each office can resolve computer names for
both domains from their local DNS server A stub zone cannot be used because it is used to resolvenames between separate DNS namespaces a Standard Primary DNS zone cannot be used because
the DNS Server in this type of zone contains the only writable copy of the DNS zone database files.
There can be only one Standard Primary DNS Server for a particular zone. A conditional forwarder
cannot be used because it handles name resolution only for a specific domain. What
causes the error I receive in the event log when I attempt to replicate the ForestDNSZones directory
partition?
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/43165/q-what-causes-the-error-i-receive-in-the-eventlog-when-i-attempt-to-replicate-the-forestdnszones-directory-partition.html
Understanding stub zones
http://207.46.196.114/windowsserver/en/library/648f2efd-0ad4-4788-80c8-
75f8491f660e1033.mspx?mfr=true
DNS Conditional Forwarding in Windows Server 2003
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/DNS_Conditional_Forwarding_in_Windows
_Server_2003.html