Weir's paradise

I happy to see my result! 981 - that means one question wrong! (actually by my calculations it should be 981.8)

Not too bad eh?

I don't have any idea what my wrong question was, except that it was in the

If you read EVERY one of these questions on this page, make sure you

understand them all (i.e. do plenty of looking up stuff) I can pretty much

guarantee you will do well. I never passed any of the transcender tests, but I

DID learn why I got the questions wrong!

How does TCP/IP resolve a host name to a hardware address?

- If the computer being called is on the local network, its hardware address will

be obtained using the ARP cache, or by sending a local broadcast asking for a

reply including its hardware address.

- If the computer is on a remote network, ARP will determine the hardware

address of the default gateway for routing. So...first the IP address is extracted

from the HOSTS file located under WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC , and

then ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is used to resolve the IP address to a

hardware address.

A windows NT machine may be installed as just a server - it does not have to

be used as a domain controller...

- Servers do NOT procedd domain logons.

- A server maintains ITS OWN local user account database

- Dom. ctrlrs cannot be moved from one domain to another easily

- Servers that are NOT D.C.'s can access domain security databases.

When client machines use server apps such as SNA or SQL server, they rely on

the Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) agent located at the server to broadcast

network information messages. When a WINNT machine runs applications that

use SAP, an 8-digit hex INTERNAL NETWORK NUMBER MUST BE SET

FOR THE SERVER.

System devices such as SCSI controllers are more important than automatic

devices, and must be started first. From the WIN NT setup, you can choose the

Add/Remove SCSI adapters from the options menu item to install SCSI and

IDE CD-ROM drivers. The procedure to add a CD-ROM and a SCSI

controller in a system is as follows : first install the driver using windows NT

setup, then use the DEVICES option in the Control Panel to set the startup value

of Scsicdrm to SYSTEM.

The LMHOSTS file keeps track of the IP address mappings for network

machines that need to be addressed through a router. When IP addresses

change, the LMHOSTS file becomes outdated. To keep this file up to date, the

easiest way is to use the directory replicator service.

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NWLink or IPX/SPX is the "language" that WINNT and NetWare may

communicate with. Without NWLink/ IPX/SPX, communication is not possible.

For NT ONLY computers to be able to access a NetWare server, "Client

Services for NetWare" must be installed. For ANY NetWare machine to be

able to access an NT Server, "File and Print Services for NetWare" must be

installed. For ANY MS computer to be able to access a NetWare server,

"Gateway Services for NetWare" must be installed on the NT server.

When installing GSNW on Server, you install Gateway (and client) Services for

NetWare, whereas on NT Workstations, you can only install "Client Services for

NetWare".

Whenever installing "Gateway (and client) Services for NetWare", it is not

necessary to install IPX/SPX - it is automatically installed if it is not already

installed.

After you have created a user account and group on the NetWare server, you

can select a server, set up the gateway, and make a connection to a sharable

resource. Setting up the account involves :

- Checking the enable Gateway box,

- Entering the acct name and passwd that is used by the NetWare Server.

- CSNW does not need to be installed because it is already a part of GSNW.

- GSNW is required to administer NetWare services. Clients (NT

workstation/95/WFW) CANNOT administer NetWare services because they

DO NOT have GSNW installed.

In a TCP/IP network, it is decided to use DHCP to manage IP addresses. On

the SERVER - Install DHCP server service through the control panel Network

Applet.

- the DHCP scope is defined using the DHCP manager.

On the Clients - Enable DHCP using the control panel Network Applet. The

device log is enabled through the registry.

WINS servers store mappings between IP addresses and computer names. All

necessary WINS settings are managed through the WINS manager. These

include :

- Defining and configuring Replication partnerships

- Defining and configuring Replication time intervals

- Managing static address mapings for non-WINS-enabled computers.

- Managing ANY WINS server in the internetwork.

- Can be run from ANY sever machine (not necessarily the WINS server).

A DOMAIN may be re-named by using the Network applet in the Control

Panel to change the name of the domain.

When adminstering user accounts on a domain, it is usually a good idea to use

network home directories. To assign home directories under C:\Home to each of

10 users at the same time, ....

- From User Manager select the users from the user list

- Choose properties from the user menu

- Choose the Profile button, select connect to C:

- Enter "\\HOME\%USERNAME%".

The usernames are automatically substituted when the home directories are

created. It is suggested not to use this technique with FAT partitions.

Q. The Sales domain trusts the Marketing Domain. How do you provide

members of the Marketing domain with dial-in Access to resources in the sales

domain?

A. Use the Remote Access Admin application to grant dial-in permission to

each user in the Marketing domain.

- To grant dial-in permission to users in a trusted domain, user manager for

Domains utility need not be used. Instead, you can use the Remote Access

Admin application from the dial-in SERVER.

1. Select server menu, choose select Domain or server.

2. Enter the name of the trusted domain, then select permissions from the user

menu.

3. Select EACH INDIVIDUAL USER within the domain, and grant them

dial-in permission.

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- Only LOCAL ACCOUNTS are defined in the LOCAL accounts database.

- You can work with local accounts from User Manager for domains.

- DOMAIN ACCOUNTS can ONLY be defined on an NT DOMAIN

CONTROLLER computer, with User Manager for Domains.

- DOMAIN ACCOUNTS are specified on PDC's and are replicated to BDC's

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- The EVERYONE group can :

a) Log onto a computer locally if it is NOT a domain controller

b) Log onto a computer remotely (over a network) even IF IT IS a domain

controller.

- It is only the right to log on locally that is revoked from the EVERYONE

group to a Domain Controller.

After enabling File and Object Access auditing from User Manger, you can

audit a variety of events in specified directories, including file opening, changing,

execution, deletion, and permission modification. It is important that the correct

selection

- "Replace Auditing on SubDirectories" and

- "Replace auditing on existing files" are made.

Otherwise only file creation and subdirectoy events will be recorded.

If you try to delete the partition that has the NT System files on it from the Disk Administrator, you are presented with an error message. Also, NO CHANGES

are made in Disk Administrator until you exit, or choose the Commit Changes

Now menu item from the partition menu.

Local Groups CAN CONTAIN user accounts OR Global Accounts from

trusted domains. Also, Local Groups are only available in their OWN domain.

A NetWare print Queue is equivalent to a NT network printer - you just connect

to it. When you choose a print queue from the shared printers box, if the driver is not available locally, you will be prompted to install it.

A print driver must be installed on the server where a TCP/IP printer will be

created. If not listed, you should try a compatible driver.

Q. What must be done in order for a Win NT client to connect to an X.25

network thru a dial-up PAD?

A. 1) Dial up the PAD

2) Establish the connection between the PAD and the Server-side SMART

CARD.

PPTP is a UNIVERSAL standard allowing any client machine that is using RAS

to run applications across a variety of Multi-Platform Interprocess

Communications technologies, including WINSock, named Pipes, Remote

Procedure Calls.

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- Printers or ploters that connect to UNIX machines use the TCP/IP protocol.

- A WIN NT computer (server) that defines a share to a TCP/IP printer

MUST have TCP/IP installed.

- Any client that wishes to access the printer MUST have a protocol installed

that is common with ONE of the protocols on the WIN NT computer (server)

that defines the printer.

Example. A printer is connected to a UNIX macine on the network. This

plotter is defined by a WIN NT server that has GSNW installed. What

protocols must be installed on the server so that a NetBEUI client may use the

printer?

Answer : GSNW being installed on the server has no bearing on the situation.

In order for the client to access the server, the server must have NetBEUI

installed. The printer is connected to a UNIX machine, so it MUST BE a

TCP/IP printer. So for the server to access the plotter, it needs to have

TCP/IP installed. So...the answer is :

NetBEUI and TCP/IP

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To use RAS on a modem line when no network card is installed, the MS

Loopback Adapter must be installed so that the communications protocol can

bind to it. Each protocol needs a hardware device or adapter with which to bind,

so the MS Loopback Adapter and driver must be used as a substitute when no

network adapter card is present.

Defn : redirects all network requests back to the host machine without the need

for a network adapter to be installed on the machine.

If you want to fool Windows NT into thinking a network is present, for

example, when you want to demonstrate the network capabilities of Windows

NT without being connected to a network, you can install the MS Loopback

Adapter driver in the network application in the control panel. This driver allows

the computer to connect to network resources that are actually local. This

feature is particularly useful for demonstrating applications such as SQL Server

for Windows NT at events and trade shows.

The MS Loopback Adapter can also be used to enable a stand-alone computer

to generate UPS shutdown messages. The Windows NT System Guide states

that the alerter and messenger services must be started for a computer to

generate a UPS alert. These services will not start without a network adapter

present. Installing the MS Loopback Adapter allows the Alerter and Messenger

services to start on a standalone system.

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Printers in a printer pool always share the same name and printer driver.

Therefore, if you want to add a new printer to a pool of already configured

printers, you need only specify the port for the new printer. Add printers to a

printer pool by :

1 - Open the print manager.

2 - Select "Create Printer" from the Printer menu.

3 - Choose the DETAILS command.

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The only way a NEW keyboard of a DIFFERENT TYPE than the current

keyboard can be installed is by running Windows NT setup.

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To configure a registry on a remote windows NT computer you need to do the

following:

1 - Make sure Server services if running

2 - Start the registry editor on the local computer

3 - Select the "Select Computer" option on the registry menu.

4 - Select the computer whose registry you want to edit.

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After just installing a WfW client on your NT network, the following must be

done to ensure it will be recognized by a domain controller during logon :

1 - On WfW client, open control panel

2 - Open network applet.

3 - Choose "StartUp"

4 - Select "Log onto Windows NT or LAN Manager Domain"

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After selecting Make Network Installation Disk from the Network Client

Administrator, you are promted to indicate a share directory from which the

installation files are copied. After indicating the shared directory, you are

promted to indicate :

a) Size of floppy disk.

b) Type of Network client to install.

c) The network adapter card.

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How to change properties of printers on remote servers from WIN NT :

1) Open Print Manager.

2) Open Printer menu.

3) Choose "Server Viewer" menu item.

4) Select server and printer you wish to work with.

5) Click on properties menu item under the PRINTER menu.

This is exactly the same as aministering a local priter except for steps 3 & 4.

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NT Server installed on machine with UPS attached. What services must be

running to notify someone if the power goes out?

- UPS

- Alerter

- Messenger

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Procedure for renaming an already installed BDC :

- Add new computer name thru server manager

- Change name of BDC computer thru Control Panel Network applet, ON the

BDC machine that you wish to rename.

- Restart the machine.

- Synchronize the Domain.

- Delete the old name using server manager.

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Installing a large NT TCP/IP network. It will use DHCP. As you install and

configure client machines, the easiers way to assign IP addresses is :

Once the DHCP server is set up, install TCP/IP on the client machines. You will

be prompted as to whether or not to allow DHCP to automatically configure the

machine. You should choose YES.

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Directories on a WinNT network are shared with MAC client in a VERY similar

way as they are shared with DOS clients. This is done using FILE MANAGER.

NTFS volumes CAN be shared. The only restriction is that NO TWO shared

directories or volumes can be part of the same directory tree.

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To use windows 3.1 on an NT network, the "FULL REDIRECTOR" must be

used, which permits advanced networking capabilities like logging on and full

browsing capabilities. The "BASIC REDIRECTOR" is smaller in size, but only

provides access to shared files and printers.

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The following statements are true of trust relationships :

- A trustING domain can provide file access to a trustED domain.

- A trustING domain can provide printer access to a trustED domain.

- A trustED domain provides user acct info to the trustING domain.

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READ PERMISSION IS GRANTED BY DEFAULT ON SHARED

DIRECTORIES!!!

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Account operators can create, delete, and modify other user accounts and

groups, but does not provide its members with any other significant special rights

or permissions. Account operators CAN log onto or shut down the server, and

keep a local profile.

Account operators CANNOT assign or administer user rights.

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UNlike mandatory user profiles, personal user profiles often change between

logon settings. Mandatory User profiles are saved with a .MAN extension, while

personal user profiles should be saved with a .USR extension. P.U.P.'s are

meant to be accessible from any machine in a domain. Admins can add network

connections to any PUP.

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User Names are NOT case sensitive, however passwords ARE case sensitive.

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When creating a ss w/o parity, at least 2 physical disks are needed, and if the

selected partitions are NOT approximately the same size, Disk Administrator

will make them approximately the same size.

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If data changes frequently, backups using DIFFERENTIAL backups will be

more time consuming, so INCREMENTAL backups should be used.

Incremental backups usually use less tape space, however theyr equire more

tapes overall.

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The WIN NT disk cache is ALWAYS maintained automatically.

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TO add a printer to an existing printer Pool from print manager: - select create

printer from the printer menu, then select details.

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Audit policy applies to the domain ONLY if you are administering the domain

itself. PDC's and BDC's share the same Audit policy. When you administer a

computer that is not a domain controller, that policy applies to the computer that

you create it on ONLY.

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How do you share and secure a remote printer on a network?

1 - Select remote printer from Print Manger

2 - Select properties from the Printer menu, and Share it

3 - Set the permissions on the printer by selecting the permissions menu from

the SECURITY menu.

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Mac users want to connect and print to various printers on the APPLETALK or

ethernet networks. How do they do this?

- They will use the CHOOSER interface on their computer for both PostScript

AND Non-PostScript printers.

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The best way to save local configuration information (registry info) using the

WinNT backup application is to :

1 - Select the drive containing the registry

2 - Choose the backup registry checkbox

3 - Run backup

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When remote computers connect to a RAS sever through PPP using microsoft

TCP/IP, they are automatically provided with an IP address that comes from a

static range assigned to the server. If absolutely necessary, Windows NT RAS

clients also can use an IP address specified in the client machines PhoneBook.

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You have 2 hard disks. System files are on C, D has some other stuff. The

BEST way to improve pagefile performance is to place a pagefile on C and

another pagefile on D, although as a general rule it is best to keep pagefiles and

system files apart.

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The system partition, which is the partition that contains the hardware specific

files needed to load Win NT server must be a FAT partition of at least 2MB on

RISC based systems. The rest of the files may be placed on a NTFS partition

for maximum security.

Q. want to share a cd drive on a server, you are running NTW w/ client

tools...what to use?

A: Server Manager

Q. You forget administrator password and restore using ERD. What happens?

A. The accounts are restored as was on the date ERD was made.

Q. Startup fails, suspect problem with boot files. How fix?

A. Boot from startup disk and choose repair.

Q. Mandatory profiles, that server is down

A: CAN'T LOG IN

Q. Same old User_template question

A: Set up account the way you want, call it User_Template, and copy it to

create accounts

Q. Exhibit: Auditing ...that long question about Corporate Archives, etc

A: Any attempts to change an existing file in a subdirectory will be audited

How do you make an emergency repair disk?

Ans:Rdisk

Q. You are Administrating from Win95 Computer. You install Server Admin.

Tools. Want to share CD-ROM on NT Computer. What do you use on

Win95 Computer?.

A. Server Manager.

Q. You have installed Administration Tools on a 95 computer. How to

manage printer permissions?

A. Using Explorer. (Remember: Explorer is for file and printer permissions.

Server manager is used to administer shares).

how do you create a manage file permissions from remote windows 95 client

with server tools.

1.from server manager

2.explorer

3.e.t.c

A) Answer to this is definitely "Explorer"

- One question on sharing a resource from a Win95 station with the

management tools installed (create shares with Server Manager, manage file

and printer permissions with Windows Explorer).

Q. You have a WFW computer and you want to remotely admin domain user

accounts. What is the best way to do this?

A. Install Win32s and then install Client Admin Tools.

Q. You create home directories for 2 users on NT server. User 1 on NT

Workstation and User 2 on WFW. After they both log on User 1 has access to

her directory but User 2 cannot access his directory?

A. Map a drive on User 2's WFW computer to her home directory on the

server.

Q. How do you set up the browser to send browse information to a LAN

manager 2.x system?

A. Check the appropriate box on Control panel | Network | services | server |

properties.

Q. Domain E trusts Domain N. You create a local group in Domain E. What

can this group contain?

A. Users from Domain N

Global groups from Domain N

Global groups from Domain E

Users from Domain E

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Alerts/Notification

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How do you provide notification to users who are administrators in the domain

when a system event occurs.

a.Add the user names of the administrators to the Server operators group. They

will receive immediate and automatic notification

b.Start Alerter service...................blah blah blah

c.On the PDC, use Server Manager to add Domain Admin group to the list of

names that should receive alert.

d.On each PDC, user Server Manager to add each admin name.

CHECK ANSWER!!!

Q. To receive an alert about disk space (for example) from several

servers/workstations in the domain. Do you set this up on every station orjust

the PDC?

A. You need to setup the alert on each NT workstation/server that you want to

send out alerts (Control Panel.ServerAlerts. Then choose the machines you

want to be notified by the box that is in trouble). The Alerter service must be

running on the workstation/server that you want to receive the messages so an

alert box will pop up.

Q. After you log in, you get a message that a dependency service failed...where

do you look

A: Event viewer

Q. Want to send administrative alert. What to use?

A. Server Manager.

Q. You have four domain controllers, and want your administrators to receive

alerts when system errors occur. How do you do that?

A. On each server, add names of all administrators to alert list in Server

Manager.

Q. How do you notify a user when his/her print job is done?

A. Alerter/Messenger service must be running on the NT client (Winpopup

must be running on win95 or WFW box). Server that is serving the printing

services for that printer must be setup to provide notification.

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Backing Up

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Q. Want to back up registry

A: pick at least one file on the volume containing the reg

Q. Whats the best back up strategy for 1 NTS, 10 Win95 clients, 5 NTW

clients ...want to back up server and it's registry nightly and clients weekly

A: 1 tape drive on server

Q. If someone deletes a file accidentally, do they have to be in the Backup

Operator or owner to be able to restore file from tape?

A. No, Administrators, Backup Operators, Server Operator and anyone else

who has "restore file" rights can do it.

Q. Can you remotely back up the registry of a server?

A. NO

Q. You want to backup 1 NT Server's registry daily and 95 WS weekly. What

are the minimum requirements needed to perform this task?

A. 1 Tape backup on the server.

Q. You schedule your tape backup to backup you 2 servers and all

workstations starting at 8 PM. When you arrive the next morning, the backup is

just finishing up. You want to make sure it finishes by 6 AM. What is the best

way to do this?

A. Put a 2nd tape in drive the other server, make one tape drive backup the

servers and the other backup the workstations. (REMEMBER: you can not

remotely backup a Server Registry)

Q. Do you need to stop server services when backing up registry?

A. Not if you're using ntbackup.

Q. You have a Windows NT server 4.0. you have 60 clients running win95

and WinNT workstation connected to the server. If you want to backup all 60

clients in the network, what is the minimum hardware requirement you should

have?

A. One tape backup unit installed on the server.

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Fault Tolerance

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Q. select the best fault tolerance set up for a system with one controller, three

disks and system/boot partition on first disk. It was practically begging for

RAID 5 until you remember that the System and boot partition can't be a part of

it.

Options were:

- Volume Set

- Mirror first disk to second disk

- Disk striping - umm

- Disk striping with parity

No choice, only the mirror will work and I got 100% on the planning section.

Q. Your Windows NT server computer has 3 physical disks. What is the best

way to implement fault Tolerance on your computer to allow maximum amount

of storage space?

A. Implement disk striping with parity

3. One disk fails in a stripe set w/parity

A: regenerate from fault tolerance menu

Q. How do you make a system partition redundant?

A. Disk Duplexing or Disk Mirroring.

Q. Can you create a boot diskette for booting the system to the mirror partition

using DOS?

A. No, must use NT

Q. You need to create the 3 setup disks. Do you format the floppy from a

MS-DOS computer or a Windows NT computer?

A. DOS

Q. Primary in mirror fails, what do you do to boot

A: format disk in NT, copy 4 files, edit boot.ini (all in one choice)

Q. 3 disks, system on c:, want fault tolerance

A: tricky!! can't do disk striping with parity because you need 3 after

system...answer is mirror

Q. Minimum for disk striping with parity

A: one controller, 3 disks (please)

Q. Which provides fault tolerance ?

- mirror

- NOT stripe set w/out parity

- ss w/p

- NOT volume set

Q. The minimum requirements for stripe w/parity?

A. One controller and 3 disks.

Q. You have 4 drives w/250 MB on each disk. Want to use RAID 5. What is

the total usable size of stripe set?.

A. 750 MB.

- A volume set can combine areas from an IDE, SCSI and EIDE drives.

- The boot partition cannot be part of the volume set.

- Once a volume set is implemented, MS-DOS and Win95 are not able to see

the volume set - only a single drive.

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Q. Migrate NW to NT...what do you need

A: ONLY GSNW!!!

Q. Migrating from NetWare server to NT. What needs to be installed on NT

Server?

A. GSNW.

Q. Your 95 clients access shared resources on NT Server. The 95 Computers

have Client for MS installed. You want to allow 95 clients to access files on

NetWare Server. You Install GSNW on NT Server. What else do you need to

do?

A. From GSNW applet in control panel, use the Gateway option to share

desired directories on NT Server.

Q. You want to use Migration Tool for NetWare to migrate information from a

NetWare server to a Windows NT server. What can you NOT migrate?

A. User passwords.

Q. You have 2 Netware servers and 100 Netware clients. You want to add an

NT Server with SQL resources. You make the NT Server a member of the

Netware domain, then what?

A. Nothing if you have already installed NWLink - Because SQL is a

client/server application.

Q. You want to run a trial migration between a NetWare server and a

WindowsNT server. After the trial migration, where should you check for the

Success and failure information about the migration?

A. In the LOGFILE.LOG on the Windows NT Server.

Know GSNW, CSNW, FPNW. Remember that if you have client/server

application to access, you only need NWlink on NT server.

Q. You want to merge account names from your NetWare servers into one

account on your Windows NT Server. What service do you need to

accomplish the task?

A. Directory Services Manager for Netware (DSMN)

Q. You want to merge account names from your NetWare servers into one

account on your WindowsNT Server. What service do you need to accomplish

the task?

A. Directory Services Manager for NetWare (DSMN)

Q. NW net, 50 clients 802.2, 50 clients 802.3...you add an NT server

A: manually detect frame type, list all frme types

Q. You have an WinNt Server that runs IPX, and you have a NetWare client

What will the client be able to access?

A. Client/server applications that support NetBIOS

Q. You have NT server running NWLink. What can NetWare clients access?

A: can access client/server apps on NT Server

Q. NT network gets new NW server...what do you do?

A: Install and configure GSNW, no change to clients

Q. NetWare network, new NTServer to run client/server app

A: NWLink only

Netware users need to access an SQL database on an NT server, what must

you do to set up this function?

Ans: U Need only IPX\SPX compatible protocol installed on nt server

Q : You get blank pages after job when printing on NetWare printer, How fix?

Ans: CSNW and clear the add form feed box.

Q. A user wants to connect to resources on 3.x NetWare server called

"Accounting". What do you configure in CSNW?

A. Preferred server "Accounting" .

Q. Have a network using various types of frames, what do you have to do?

A. Manually enter each frame type used, and install NWLink if it is not

mentioned.

Q. You have a NetWare network, and install a new NT Server to run a

client/server app. What must be installed on the NT Server to allow NW clients

access?

A. NWLink ONLY.

Q. You have installed GSNW on your NT Server, and have a NetWare

server. How do you allow Win95 Clients to access the NW Server?

A. From GSNW in the control panel, use the Gateway option to share the

desired directory on the NW Server.

Q. NetWare users need to access an SQL database on an NT Server, what

must you do to set up this function?

A. You need only IPX/SPX compatible protocol installed on NT Server.

Q. If Netware clients would like to use resources in your NT network would

you use only NWlink protocol or Would you need NTGATEWAY?

A. Just NWlink protocol - NTGateway is for MS clients to access a NW

server

Q. You have a Windows95 Computer with client administration for NT

installed and a Win NT Server (Assuming you have a NetWare server too),

you want the computer to be able to connect to a NetWare Server. How do you

do that?

A. Install GSNW on NT Server.

Q. Connecting to a Netware server through a RAS Server. What do I need?

A. NWlink including RIP for IPX/SPX

Q. How does Gateway Services for NetWare do what it does between a NT

workstation and a NetWare server?

A. The gateway translated a SMB packet received into a NCP packet over

IPX (And back again too).

Q. How does Gateway Services for Netware do what it does between a NT

workstation and a Netware server?

A. The Gateway translates a SMB packet received into a NCP packet over

IPX (and back again).

Q. You are the network administrator for Acme Inc., which has two NetWare

3.12 servers and one NetWare 4.1 server. The network number used on the

3.12 servers is 00000312 and 000000041 on the 4.1 server. The frame type

used on the NetWare3.12 is 802.3 and in the NetWare 4.1 is 802.2. How must

you configure NWLink On the NT Server so that all the NetWare clients have

access to the NT server?

A. By selecting Manual Frame type detection and adding de 3.12 and 4.1

client's network numbers and frame types to the frame type configuration list.

Q. You have 2 NetWare servers and 100 NetWare clients. You want to add

an NT server with SQL resources. You make the NT server a member of the

NetWare domain, then What?

A. Nothing if you already installed NWLink.

Q. Connecting to a NetWare Server Through a RAS server. What do I need?

A. NWLink including RIP for IPX/SPX.

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Network Printing

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Q. how do you manage printer permissions from a remote windows 95

clienta.from server manager

b.from explorer

c.etc.etc

Ans: "Explorer"

Q. NT Server connected to UNIX, want to use HP Printer connected to

UNIXmachine, NT clients will be running NWLink. What other protocols need

to be running?

A. Client are running only NWLink so you need that.

Q. Every night starting at 8:30 PM you run a backup on your file and

printserver. You have set the print device's availability from 7:00 AM to 8:00

PM. A user in your domain, sends a job to the print device at 8:05 PM. What

will happen to the print job?

A. It will be stored in the print spooler.

You connect a new HP laserjet to a printer pool, but the HP port option does

not show up in print manager, what could be wrong?

Ans: DLC is not installed

Q. You want to add a third HP printer to a printer pool, what do you need to

do.

Create printer, install driver, others?

A. Use Properties/Port option and add new printer to a new port.

Q. Enable auditing for printing and see nothing in log. How fix?.

A. In User Manager, enable auditing of file and object access.

Q. When printing from an Intel to a RISC based printer, where do the drivers

need to be?

A. On the Server

Q. What do you need to do if you want to print using TCP/IP from Line Printer

Daemon (LPD)?

A. The IP Address

Q. You have a HP LaserJet printer on a UNIX Computer, wich you wish to

print to via your NT Server. What protocol do you install?

A. TCP/IP (Not DLC, since you're printing to a computer, not a network

printer).

Q. The printer on the network fail, how do you redirect the printing jobs?

A. In port of failed printer, specify UNC path to another printer.

Q. A printer has stopped working. It is connected to your NT Server. You

want to move the queued print files to the network directory. How?

A. Reconfigure ports of the NT Server printer to the new UNC name

Q. NT Server connected to UNIX, want to use HP Printer connected to

UNIX Computer, NT Clients will be running NWLink. What other protocols

need to be running?

A. Just TCP/IP and IPX.

Q. You are installing new printer on a NT 4.0 server. NT 3.51 workstations will

use it, How?

A. Load NT 4.0 and NT 3.51 printer drivers on the NT 4.0 server.

Q. You want to create a Windows NT print queue for a HP laser printer

which is directly connected to the network through a HP JetDirect interface

card. What action must you take before you attempt to create the printer

queue?

A. Install support for the HP network port.

Q. Your boss has asked you to configure a specific print device on the

network so that all documents sent to the device from the company managers

are printed before all others documents. What should you do?

A. Create another printer and assign the new printer a priority of 99.

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PDC's & BDC's

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2. You have a single domain with one PDC and three BDCs. You want to turn

the PDC into an application server. How should you reconfigure the PDC to

meet the requirement?

A. Promote one BDC to PDC and reconfigure the PDC to a memeber server

B. Demote the PDC and reconfigure to a memeber server

C. Promote one BDC to PDC and then re-install the former PDC as a memeber

server of the domain

(Answer: C)

- When you promote a BDC to a PDC the up-to-date directory database from

the original PDC is automatically copied to the NEW PDC. The original PDC

is then automatically demoted to a BDC.

Q. Promote BDC to PDC remotely, running client tools

A: Server manager (duh)

Q. How do you stop users from authenticating or using a PDC when upgrading a

BDC to a PDC?

A. STOP Servers services

Q. What would you use to determine the roles and OS of servers and clients

....I.e. is it a PDC/BDC/Member Server/etc

A: Server Manager

Q. To make sure log on scripts are the same on all domain controllers....

A: Directory Replicator Service

There is 20 NTW in a workgroup called SALES, You want to add a NT

Server as a PDC called SALES. What do you need to do ??

Ans: Create a user account for each user on the PDC

Q. You have 3 NT Servers. Want to change role of PDC to BDC.

A. Use Server Manager to promote a BDC to PDC, Existing PDC will be

automatically demoted. RAS connection fails, where do you look.?

a) System.log

b) Device.log <-------HERE!!

c) Modem.log

d) serial.log

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Permissions

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Q. What happens to file permissions when you use WindowsNT Explorer to

move files from one subdirectory to other one on the same NTFS partition?

A. All file permissions are retained.

Q. What the effect does copying NTFS files to a different directory have on

their permissions?

A.Copying causes files to inherit permissions from the new directory. -

Remember : MOVE the RETAINer

Q. User with 95 client can't access printer, you assign perm's, they still can't

access

A: didn't log off and back on

Q. Copy to same NTFS partition

A: inherit

Q. Move a file from NTFS to FAT (pick 2)

A1: LFNs are retained

A2: Permissions are discarded

Q. You copy an FAT directory to a NTFS partition, what happens to

permissions and filenames and ownership of the files?

A. Retain attributes Retain LFNs

What happens to file permissions when you use Windows NT Explorer to copy

files from one subdirectory to another one on the same NTFSpartition? (answer:

a. All file permissions are set to full control for the Everyone special group.

b. All file permissions are discarded.

c. All file permissions are retained.

e. All file permissions are inherited from the destination subdirectory. move file to

a same NTFS partition,,,,,, (answer: Permissions are always retained)

Q. There's Read permission on the share and Full Control on NTFS. Pick 2

showing users permissions:

A. Local Users have full control to the directory.

A. Remote users have read permission to the directory.

Q. You want to prevent anyone except ADMIN group from logging onto a

Domain Controller LOCALLY. What do you do?.

A. Ensure that only ADMIN group can login locally.

Q. What built-in user accounts can logon NT Server locally beside

administrators account?

A. Server Operator, Account Operator, Backup Operator, Print Operator.

Q. Who can "Take ownership" of files?

A. Administrators, anyone with full control and anyone with the special

permissions.

Q. If you want to create a hidden share for a resource so no one else can see

the resource, what you must do?

A. Add the $sign to the end of the share name.

Q. What will happen when you transfer an uncompressed file to a compressed

folder?

A. The file will inherit the compressed attribute from the target folder.

Q. What happens to file permissions when you use Windows NT Explorer to

copy files from one subdirectory to another one on the same NTFS Partition?

A. All file permissions are inherited from the destination subdirectory.

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Performance/PerfMon

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Q. Lack of disk space for spool file

A: on server, pick new location on a different drive

Q. What happens if paging file increases in size too much

A1: disk gets fragmented

A2: apps take longer to start

Q. In Performance Monitor, which objects/counters should you use to measure

excessive paging?

A1. Memory:pages/second

A2. Memory:page faults/second

Q. Your main file server is running slowly. You run the Browser Monitor utility

from the Resource Kit and discover that it is currently the browse master. How

can you configure the system to ensure that this machine is never the browse

master?

A. Set the registry entry MaintainServerList=No - This prevents the server from

being a master browser, and will force a new election

Q. What to check for excessive paging ?

A: Plain English: 'The number of pages per second

Q. How can you detect excessive disk paging in the PERFORMANCE

MONITOR ?

Ans: Pages per second

Q. You have excessive paging ..what can you do to improve performance?

A: Add more RAM

Q. You use Performance Monitor and your %processor Time is close to 92%

sustained, and you are experiencing excessive paging. Whatshould you change

that will have the biggest effect?

A. Add more RAM

Your pagefile has increased its volume. How will that affect? (choose 2)

(answer: a and c)

a) Applications will start more slowly <------

b) I/O of the network will increase

c) The disk will be fragmented <------

d) Current content of the pagefile will be lost.

Q. There are two 2 GB HD with two separate partitions on each on the NT

Server. The paging file is on the system drive. What can you do to boost the

performance in connection with the paging file on the server.

A. Move the paging file to another partition on the OTHER Hard Drive

8. there are 2 disks and Pagefile on the system partition of the first disk, How

can you increase performance? (easy and simple answer. move it to the other

disk.)

Q. For best performance, distribute paging file

A: on all physical volumes except boot and system partitions

Q. 5 servers, remote perf mon bogging down workstation...what do you do to

improve performance?

A: Increase sampling interval

Which window do you use in performance manager to record and save data?

Ans: Log view

Q. Your windows NT Server computer is acting as a file and print server.

Anytime a large job is being printed, users in the domain complain that their

applications slow downs considerably. What can you do on the server to

increase the performance of the applications?

A. Use the system applet in the control panel to increase the application's

foreground responsiveness.

Q. You have recently installed a second processor in your windows NT

Server to improve performance. What action should you take to configure win

NT appropriately?

A. Run the uptom.exe utility from the Resource kit.

How do you know that you need to upgrade your processor on you server ?

Ans: In performance Monitor your PROCESSOR TIME is constantly over 80%

Q. You want to know if disk space gets below 25%...what do you do?

A: Perf mon alert threshold on 25% free space

You as Administrator is working on a NTW and you want to be alerted when

the disk space available on the NT Server is below 20%. How do you do this ?

Ans: Run PERFORMANCE MONITOR on NTW and add you counter

threshold to the alert option.

Q. Computer with 4 disks of 2 GB. Each. Required: Speed Up data access.

Proposed solution is to set up a volume set.

A. Doesn't meet any. Volume set does not speed up data access, you need

stripe set.

Q. What do you do with the page file to optimize it? You have multiple disks

and partitions.

A. Move the page file off the boot and system partition.

Q. Your page file has increased above its maximum allowed. What will

happen? (Choose two) (A,C)

A. Apps will open and run slow, Disk will be fragmented.

Q. In Performance Monitor, you want to watch trend for a week, what do you

use?

A. Choose log file. (Not alert log or report view).

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Policies/Profiles

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Your network is configured as a single domain that has three domain controllers

and 25 NT Workstations. For security purposes you assign roaming user

profiles to all user accounts in the domain. The profiles are mandatory. The

server on which the profiles are stored fails. What will happen when users

attempt to log on to the domain while the server is shut down? (answer:b)

a.Users will log on successfully and will receive their profiles, but any changes

made to the computer will be lost.

b.Users will not be able to logon to the domain.

c.Users can choose to log on to the domain and select a profile that is stored on

a different server.

d.Users will log on successfully and will receive the Default user profile.

Q. 3 Users don't get system policy working on their computers, why?

A. User policy is overriding system policy.

Q. Where do the policy files go? In the Ntroot\netlogon or in the users' home

directory?

A. In the NETLOGON share.

Q. How add path to user environment?

A. Control panel | System | Environment | User Variables.

Consider the following Memory settings taken from the Network option on

Control Panel for a PDC: ->balance click

What task is this PDC optimized to perform?(a)

a. managing a network of around sixty users <---balance = 10 to 60 users

b. managing a small network of around ten users <--- Minimize Memory usage

c. running a SQL Server client-server application <---Maximize throughput for

Network Applications

d. sharing an Access database <---Maximize throughput for Network

Applications

Q. What would you use to minimize memory usage for a domain with less than

10 users?

A. Server Service in Control panel | Network.

How can you minimize memory usage when there are less than 10 users

connected?

a) In User manager.

b)In WS Service

c) Server Service <---------THIS ONE!!!!

d) Foreground app. priority

You have only 10 users connecting to the NT Server where can you optimize the

servers memory?

Ans: In server properties (server service)

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RAS

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Q. What are the RAS security protocols?

A. Clear-text

PAP <---Password Authentication Protocol (clear-text)

CHAP <---challenge authentication protocol

MS-CHAP.

Q. How to invoke RAS dialer.log and where is it stored?

A. Registry entry \winnt_root~system32\ras

Q. What are supported under PPP clients to access NT Server using RAS?

A. Name pipes

RPC

Winsock API (TCP/IP)

Winsock API (IPX)

Q. Connecting to a Netware server through a RAS Server. What do I need?

A. NWlink including RIP for IPX/SPX

Q. How do you Extend a Volume set ? and will Data be lost?

A. No, no data lost. Disk Administrator, click on partition to be extended. Now

hold CTRL and free partition and next: extend volume set. Reboot. There will

be something about CHKDSK on the blue screen and then it's done. No

formatting needed

3. You have a RAS server and a database on a different NT server. It needs

to use data encrytion for security. You have some NT workstations users who

need to use the database. Users of other client workstations which does not

support encrytion need to access the RAS for other applications rather than the

database. How should you configure the setup?

A. (wrong answer)

B. (Wrong answer)

C. Confiure some ports requiring authentication and data encrytion and assign

those NT workstations to these ports only.

D. Another wrong.

(Answer: C)

Q. What are supported under PPP clients to access NT Server Using RAS?

A. Named pipes, RPC, Winsock API (TCP/IP), Winsock API (IPX).

Q. Exhibit: RAS Outbound(TCP/IP, IPX, NetBEUI), Inbound (TCP/IP,

NetBEUI)

What can a dial in client access

- not IPX stuff <--- inbound doesn't support it

- Winsock <---TCP/IP

- NetBIOS <---NetBEUI

- shared resources on RAS server (On THAT RAS server ONLY)

Q. You need to remotely administer 3 servers with RAS ...how

A: Set up phone book entries for each location

Q. RAS ... some clients need encrypted database, other 3rd party PPP don't

support data encryption and don't need database...

A: Use different modem ports and configure DataBase clients to use only port

set up with data encryption

Q. You RAS clients complain that there RAS connection disconnect every time

after they connected. What can you do to find the problem ?

A. Enable Device logging in the registry to create a device.log file

Q. RAS clients are being randomly disconnected, the setup is correct, where

would you look for more information?

A. Modem.inf

Q. Unsupported internal modem, how do you configure it?

A. Add modem calls to Modem.inf file

Select a proper encryption option, but different from other questions just

clicking you have to mark one circle with crossbar on the simulation of Network

Configuration window. I click on the Allow any authentication including clear

text. The question is just simple as you often saw and knew. :)

?????????Hmmmmm

Q. How to configure RAS with 2 ISDN adapters and 2 Phone numbers on

each?

A. One phonebook entry with 4 phone numbers.

Q. Can you dial in to a RAS using 3 modems (Multilink) and callback?

A. No, Callback doesn't work with multilink.

Q. Remote users dial into RAS to access a program requiring Winsock. All

servers and workstations have NetBEUI and TCP/IP. DUN is installed on the

WS. How to configure?

A. Select how IP Address will be assigned from the WS. (Incorrect choices

included configure SLIP with TCP/IP, Configure PPP w/NetBEUI, install

Winsock from media).

Q. Scenario: Exhibit shows RAS outbound: TCP/IP, IPX, NetBEUI. Inbound:

TCP/IP and NetBEUI. What can the dial-in client access?

A. Winsock (Because there's TCP/IP), NetBIOS, Shared resources on RAS

server, NOT IPX!

Q. You need to remotely administer 3 server using RAS. How do you do

that?

A. You must set up phone book entries for each location.

Q. Scenario: You have RAS Dialup, some users need to access a database

program over network, others do not. You want to encrypt database

information. Mix of MS Clients and 3rd party dialups. How do you maintain

security?

A. Use different modem ports, configure clients who need to access the

database to use the port set up with port with data encryption.

Q. Scenario: You have a Network configuration for RAS. You let the user

choose their own method of authentication.

A. The answer is "Any authentication, including clear text".

Q. Which program would you use to grant dial-in permissions to a user you

want to access RAS?

A. User Manager -or- RAS Administrator.

Q. What RAS encryption authentication method handles DES?

A. MS-CHAP.

- MS Challenge Authentication Protocol uses RSA RC4

Q. How do you assign IP Address dynamically to RAS users (Through the

RAS server or by using DHCP?)

A. Either.

Q. Where does the device.log reside?

A. \winnt_root\System32\RAS

Q. You have 95 clients using 3rd. Party PPP that only supports DES. Want to

provide highest level of security, what do you do?

A. Require Encrypted authentication.

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Replication

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Q. Exhibit: Directory replication, which will import??

A: 3 answers: BDC, member servers, NTW

Q. Replication Governor is configured in registry, what will it do?

A. Decrease buffer size calls from BDC to PDC Decrease frequency calls from

BDC to PDC

Q. Which variable in the registry do you change to slow down replications of

accounts?

A. Increase pulse or decrease pulse concurrency in registry.

Q. You have single domain w/2 member servers, NT WS, Win95, PDC,

2BDC. It gives you and exhibit to show how DRS is set up. Just remember:

A. Only NT Servers can be EXPORT Servers. Only NT wkst and LAN

Manager for OS/2 servers can be Import computers. (Including some

NetWare).

Q. Can a Windows95 client Import Replication?

A. No.

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TCP/IP & Other Protocols

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Q. Non routed net, static IP address, also need what?

A: Subnet mask

Q. Same old Research1 question ?????????????????????????? find this one

out!

A: new NIC, new subnet, enable IP forwarding ????????????

Q. The file is used to map IP addresses to NetBIOS names?

A. LMHOSTS

Q. The file is used to map IP addresses to host names?

A. HOSTS

Q. 5 servers on 3 subnets..how can you speed up dial in

A: LMHost files on clients

Q. You have configured your Windows NT Server computer to act as a DHCP

server. How must you assign the IP address for the DHCP server?

A. By manually entering the IP address in the TCP/IP Properties window

Q. You want to monitor TCP/IP from workstation ...what do you do?

A: Install SNMP on each server

Q. DHCP Server can allocate an IP Address automatically, what other options

can it supply to clients? Select ALL that apply?

A. Default Gateway

Subnet Mask

DNS Server

WINS Server

(You should look at the list, there's tons of settings)

Q. Your Windows NT network uses the TCP/IP protocol exclusively. There is

no WINS server on the local network, but you want to connect to a share

located across a router. How can you do this?

A. Add an entry for the remote host to the LMHOSTS file

Q. You have 1 NT Server with 2 LAN segments. Each segment has 100 client

PCs. The client PCs and the NT Server use TCP/IP as their sole protocol.

You want the NT Server to be able to route messages between the 2

segments. What do you do?

A. Enable IP routing

Q. What do you need for TCP/IP to work in routed environment?

A. IP Address, subnet mask, Default Gateway.

Q. Want to automate connecting to ISP who uses PPP. How do?

A. Create a Login script to be run after dialing.

Q. You want to monitor TCP/IP counter on servers. What do you need to

install on each server?

A. SNMP.

Q. You install TCP/IP on a member server in a nonroutable network. You have

already assigned an IP address manually to the server. What other parameter

must you specify to complete the TCP/IP installation?

A. The subnet mask

Q. In a NON-ROUTED network with static IP addressing, what else do you

need?

A. Subnet Mask (Not default gateway because it is NON-ROUTED).

Q. Scenario: You have a group of users who need to copy 100 MB files to an

NT Server and then network slows down, what should you do?

A. Install second NIC and enable IP routing. (Beware: This question has a lot

of irrelevant info).

Q. You have 3 servers and 100 workstations all running NT. One of the three

servers is used to copy very large files back and forth between some of the

workstations. When the copying was being done between the server and the

workstations it slowed down the other workstations and servers on the

network. What is the best solution to fix this?

A. Implement TCP/IP and separate the network into subnets.

Q. Your computer running Windows NT Server runs TCP/IP as its primary

protocol. The server also has NWLink installed, for the sole purpose of hosting

connections from NetWare clients. How would you optimize the bindings for

this server?

A. Disable the binding between the Workstation Service and NWLink,

because the server never need to establish connections or authenticate users

over NWLink.

Q. A DHCP server can supply clients with?

A. Default gateway, IP Address, Subnet Mask, DNS Server, WINS Server.

Q. If broadcast traffic is increasing on your TCP/IP network, what could you

do to reduce the amount traffic?

A. Install a WINS server

Q. If broadcast traffic is increasing on your TCP/IP network, what could you

do to reduce the amount of traffic?

A. Install a WINS server.

Q. What do you need to do if you want to print using TCP/IP from LPD?

A. The IP Address.

Q. You have 3 LANs with 2 NT Server each and 50 NT WS, the LAN's are

connected over a WAN. Servers and WS all have NetBEUI and TCP/IP

loaded. WS uses 90% NetBEUI, how you optimize performance?

A. Make NetBEUI top of the binding order in all WORKSTATIONS (NOT

SERVERS).

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Upgrading/Installing

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1. You have a NT 3.51 installed on a machine and you would like to upgrade to

NT 4.0 while preserve all existing NT 3.51 settings. How should you do that

[select all that apply]?

A. Boot the machine with NT 4 setup disk and install NT 4 into NT 3.51

directory ???Hmm

B. Boot the machine with Dos and use Setup.exe to install

C. Boot the machine with Dos and use Winnt32.exe to install

D. Start NT 3.51 and use Winnt32.exe to install NT 4 into the NT 3.51