How should you configure the DNS record for the SPF?

###BeginCaseStudy###
Topic 3, Contoso Ltd,
Overview General Overview Contoso. Ltd. is an international company that has 3,000 employees.
The company has sales, marketing, research, and human resource departments.
Physical Locations
Contoso has two main offices. The offices are located in New York and Chicago. Each moffice has a data center.
The New York office uses a network subnet of 10.1.0.0/16. The Chicago office uses a mnetwork subnet of
10.128.0.0/16.
The offices connect to each other by using a WAN link. Each office connects directly to the Internet.
Existing Environment
Active Directory The network contains an Active Directory forest named contoso.com. The forest mcontains a
single domain. All domain controllers run Windows Server 2012 R2. The forest mfunctional level is Windows
Server 2012 R2.
The forest contains six domain controllers configured as shown in the following table.

The forest is configured as a single Active Directory site.
Active Directory administrators manage the Active Directory schema. Exchange Server madministrators do not
have access to modify the schema.
Contoso has deployed Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS).
Current Business Model
Contoso partners with a company names Fabrikam. Inc. on manufacturing initiatives. The partnership between
Contoso and Fabrikam requires that both companies share confidentialm information frequently.
Requirements
Business Goals
Contoso plans to install Exchange Server 2016 to provide messaging services for its users.
It must be as easy as possible for the users at Contoso to share free/busy information with mthe users at
Fabrikam.
As much as possible Contoso plans to minimize the costs associated with purchasing hardware and software.
Planned Changes
Contoso plans to implement the following changes before installing Exchange Server 2016:
Install hardware Network Load Balancing (NLB) in the New York and Chicago offices.
Implement Microsoft Office Online Servers in the New York and Chicago offices.
Provide Contoso users with company-approved tablets.
Planned Messaging Infrastructure
You plan to create an Exchange Server 2016 organization named Contoso. You plan to deploy seven servers
that will have Exchange Server 2016 installed. The servers will be configured as mshown in the following table.

All of the servers will be members of a database availability group (DAG) named DAG01.
Client Access Requirements
Contoso identifies the following client access requirements for the planned deployment:
Users must be able to configure their tablet to synchronize email by using Autodiscover.
Users must be able to access the Exchange Server organization by using the following names:
 Mail.contoso.com
 Autodiscover.contoso.com
Users must be able to access Outlook on the web internally and externally from their tablet.
Users must be able to access Office Online Server by using the URL of office-online.contoso.com.
Security Requirements
Contoso identifies the following security requirements for the planned deployment:
Exchange Server mailbox databases must be encrypted while at rest.
Users must be prevented from using Outlook on the web while they are offline.
Contoso users must be able to share Calendar details with approved external domains only.
Email messages sent to the users in the fabrikam.com SMTP domain must be encrypted automatically.
Whenever possible, client computers must be directed to the same Exchange server for log collection.
Users must be able to access their mailbox by using Exchange ActiveSync on the company approved tablets
only.
Email messages sent from the users in the human resources department of Contoso must be protected by
using AD RMS. regardless of the mail client.
Availability Requirements
Contoso identifies the following high-availability requirements for the planned deployment:
Servers must be able to complete a restart without administrative intervention.
The network load balancer must be able to probe the health of each workload.
If a data center fails, the databases in the other data center must be activated automatically.
Redundant copies of all email messages must exist in the transport pipeline before and after mdelivery.
Email messages must be made highly available by the Exchange Server organization before and after delivery.
If you manually mount the databases following the data center failure, the databases in the failed site must be
prevented from mounting automatically.

###EndCaseStudy###

DRAG DROP
You need to configure the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for a domain named contoso.com to ensure that only
the following senders are authorized to send email for contoso.com:
Hosts listed in the contoso.com MX records
IP addresses inthe 131.107.1.0/24 subnet.
How should you configure the DNS record for the SPF? To answer, drag the appropriate values to the correct
targets
Each value may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes
or scroll to view content.

###BeginCaseStudy###
Topic 3, Contoso Ltd,
Overview General Overview Contoso. Ltd. is an international company that has 3,000 employees.
The company has sales, marketing, research, and human resource departments.
Physical Locations
Contoso has two main offices. The offices are located in New York and Chicago. Each moffice has a data center.
The New York office uses a network subnet of 10.1.0.0/16. The Chicago office uses a mnetwork subnet of
10.128.0.0/16.
The offices connect to each other by using a WAN link. Each office connects directly to the Internet.
Existing Environment
Active Directory The network contains an Active Directory forest named contoso.com. The forest mcontains a
single domain. All domain controllers run Windows Server 2012 R2. The forest mfunctional level is Windows
Server 2012 R2.
The forest contains six domain controllers configured as shown in the following table.

The forest is configured as a single Active Directory site.
Active Directory administrators manage the Active Directory schema. Exchange Server madministrators do not
have access to modify the schema.
Contoso has deployed Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS).
Current Business Model
Contoso partners with a company names Fabrikam. Inc. on manufacturing initiatives. The partnership between
Contoso and Fabrikam requires that both companies share confidentialm information frequently.
Requirements
Business Goals
Contoso plans to install Exchange Server 2016 to provide messaging services for its users.
It must be as easy as possible for the users at Contoso to share free/busy information with mthe users at
Fabrikam.
As much as possible Contoso plans to minimize the costs associated with purchasing hardware and software.
Planned Changes
Contoso plans to implement the following changes before installing Exchange Server 2016:
Install hardware Network Load Balancing (NLB) in the New York and Chicago offices.
Implement Microsoft Office Online Servers in the New York and Chicago offices.
Provide Contoso users with company-approved tablets.
Planned Messaging Infrastructure
You plan to create an Exchange Server 2016 organization named Contoso. You plan to deploy seven servers
that will have Exchange Server 2016 installed. The servers will be configured as mshown in the following table.

All of the servers will be members of a database availability group (DAG) named DAG01.
Client Access Requirements
Contoso identifies the following client access requirements for the planned deployment:
Users must be able to configure their tablet to synchronize email by using Autodiscover.
Users must be able to access the Exchange Server organization by using the following names:
 Mail.contoso.com
 Autodiscover.contoso.com
Users must be able to access Outlook on the web internally and externally from their tablet.
Users must be able to access Office Online Server by using the URL of office-online.contoso.com.
Security Requirements
Contoso identifies the following security requirements for the planned deployment:
Exchange Server mailbox databases must be encrypted while at rest.
Users must be prevented from using Outlook on the web while they are offline.
Contoso users must be able to share Calendar details with approved external domains only.
Email messages sent to the users in the fabrikam.com SMTP domain must be encrypted automatically.
Whenever possible, client computers must be directed to the same Exchange server for log collection.
Users must be able to access their mailbox by using Exchange ActiveSync on the company approved tablets
only.
Email messages sent from the users in the human resources department of Contoso must be protected by
using AD RMS. regardless of the mail client.
Availability Requirements
Contoso identifies the following high-availability requirements for the planned deployment:
Servers must be able to complete a restart without administrative intervention.
The network load balancer must be able to probe the health of each workload.
If a data center fails, the databases in the other data center must be activated automatically.
Redundant copies of all email messages must exist in the transport pipeline before and after mdelivery.
Email messages must be made highly available by the Exchange Server organization before and after delivery.
If you manually mount the databases following the data center failure, the databases in the failed site must be
prevented from mounting automatically.

###EndCaseStudy###

DRAG DROP
You need to configure the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for a domain named contoso.com to ensure that only
the following senders are authorized to send email for contoso.com:
Hosts listed in the contoso.com MX records
IP addresses inthe 131.107.1.0/24 subnet.
How should you configure the DNS record for the SPF? To answer, drag the appropriate values to the correct
targets
Each value may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes
or scroll to view content.

Answer:



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Marco

Marco

The answer should be:

IP4:131.107.1.0/24 MX -all

With the option MX the spf check permits all servers who have an MX record to send mail.

-all = correct, because it states that no other servers are allowed to send mail on behalf of this dns domain.

http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax

jiuq

jiuq

I agreed Marco.

Sam

Sam

Agree with you. We can’t use domain name without additional keyword such as mx,a,include

robin

robin

Thanks Marco

tmkreddy55

tmkreddy55

IN TXT “v=spf1 ip4:131.107.1.0/24 MX -all”

IP4 – IP v4 address in CIDR format.
MX – All servers listed as MX to send emails to this domain.
-all – No other servers to be allowed or no Soft fail.

Alman

Alman

I believe mx ipv4 131.xx -all

Julien

Julien

Agree with Alman, go check it with any SPF generator tool and they would display v=spf1 mx ip4:131.107.1.0/24 -all

Igor

Igor

I believe “MX” was placed at the end because of colon between first two cells.

Igor

Igor

On the other hand, the question asks to allow “Hosts listed in the contoso.com MX records”
Maybe on the real exam the answers are different..?

Mariyan

Mariyan

It seems like the order is not important. You can add multiple networks, MX, mx:other.domain etc., separate them with an interval and just finish with the -all, ~all or ?all