Networking Essentials

Passed: 810 points ( Just by the Skin Of My Teeth )

Break Up:

• • • • Standards And Terminology…66% (Suck At That)
      • Planning…100% (Hell Yeah)
      • Implementation …76% (Room For Improvement)
      • Troubleshooting…80% (Spot On )

Study Quides:

• • • • Sybex Study guide and CBT cd’s
      • This site’s brain dumps ( With 0ut them, you have a VERY GOOD chance of FAILING)

Comments:

• • • • I have written this exam once before, and used a college private (CRAP) notes, and achived 700 of the 790 points.
      • The second time I wrote, I used the above study guides, and did ok.
      • I recommend that you use the msprep tests, and extender exams.
      • This took me 3 weeks to cover the book, and cd’s and brain dump, form cover to cover.
      • For a good brain dumb, see Ryon (30.5.98).

Questions:

• • • • You have a Token-ring(4mb/s) sub-network that connects to a Ethernet network. A 5mb file take 2 mins to go from the tocken-Ring Sub-network to the Ethernet sub-network, while it takes only 30 seconds for the same file to go from the Ethernet sub-network to the token-ring sub-network Why?

1. • • 1. Ether net is faster than tocken-ring.
       2. Token ring has a larger frame size than Ethernet ?
       3. The message has to travel further from Ethernet to Token-ring.
       4. None of the above

• • • • Well what would you choose ?
      • I chose (1).

• • • • Know NDIS and ODI
      • Know IRQs.
      • Understand what a protocol analyiser does and what it can help with respect to trouble shooting.
      • When doing Senario questions do the following:
      • 1. Write down the requird result(s).
      • 2. Write down the optional results.
      • 3. Read the question careully, and tick off the results as you see fit.
      • 4. Then and only then answer the question ( It works – Believe me)

• • • • You have a unix machines, and an NT server, you wish that the unix m,achines are able to view files on the server, but you do nto want to use software, and install protocols, which would you use ?

1. • • 1. Router
       2. Bridge
       3. Gateway
       4. Repeater
       5. Brouter

• • • • I chose (3).
      • Because a the purpose of a gateway is to link UNSIMILAR PROTOCOLS.

• • • • Know, and understand WINS, GATWAYS, SUBNETMASKS, NET BIOS, NETBUIE.

• • • • Netbios high-level …………. Links with which of the following:

1. • • 1. IPX /Nwlink
       2. TCP/IP
       3. SBM
       4. DLC
       5. UTP
       6. FTP

• • • • I choose (1), but It could be (3), so CHECK IT OUT. DON’T BE LAZY!!!

Other questions were easy, and understandable, I had 8 senerio questions, each time 2 were given one after the other. Same set of results needed in same environment, but different solutions, in each one !

So good luck, and hey If I could do it, so can you, YES YOU !!!!

Take Care,

Abo

From South Africa