Hi Robert,

first of all a great "Thank You!" for your perfect site. I really was amazed by it and did use it intensevely for my preparation for NetEss-exam. It is a crying shame what is going on with your page being stolen by some sucker (read about it on saluki MCSE mail-list) Perhaps this braindump will make you smile just a little bit. I hope it is alright that I included some lines in German, since I write some stuff to the special things you will be faced when doing the exam in German.

Have a nice day and keep on going to keep that perfect source of information running.

Now my braindump:

Subject: NetEss exam 07/21/1998 with German notes

Networking Essentials 70-058

July 21st, 1998

Hi, everyone,

after having used the braindumps very effectively, I think now it is time for me to give some information back.

I did my NetEss yesterday with 862/1000 (not too good and not to bad I think, since I just worked about 10 days for it, so you see, if I can then you can too) I used the Sybex Book "Networking Essentials Study Guide", the MS Prep-Tests (pretty old stuff and the questions on the exam have developed since) Questions that are really good and very near to the exam are on the CD of the English version of the Sybex-Book ("The Edge Tests").

Looking on many webpages for further information is always a good thing to do. I highly recommend the following page (and many others that most of you will definitely know if you want to know, do not hesitate email me)

http://frontpage.idsonline.com/sallard

Steve Allards has done a perfect job with his MCSE pages. There are about at least 80 pages full of important stuff and questions you really need to know for your exam. So do have a good look at his pages. For sure the braindumps helped me a lot but also the Saluki MCSE mailing-list helped me a lot, to see where other people faced problems (To subscribe send a message to:

[email protected] In the body of the message to recieve the digest of the list write subscribe mcse-digest)

Since I am German I took the test in German, which I am not sure if it was the best decision, sometimes it is pretty hard to understand the German translation of English terminology. So I will drop a few lines in German at the end of this document, I hope nobody of you will be offended by it. So, lets go! Since I had pretty much time during my exam I took down some notes about the questions I had in my exam, I hope I can get them all together from my notes:

(01) What is a server called, that runs programs for the clients?

[A] File/Print Server

[B] Application Server

B

(02) What is a feature of User-level-access?

I don't quite remember the possible answers but they wanted to hear that you need both   username and password to gain access to a shared ressource. (Note for the Germans "user level access = Sicherheit auf Benutzerebene")

(03) Which guarantees safe delivery?

[A] connectionless services

[B] connection oriented services

A

(04) What is the "higher" protocol for NetBios?

SMB

(05) Which device runs at network layer?

[A] Gateway

[B] Repeater

[C] Router

[D] Bridge

C

(06) What does 10BaseT specificate?

[A] BNC-T-connector

[B] RG 62 cable

[C] UTP cabling

[D] fibre optics

C

(07) Explain Client/Server

Something like Client runs frontend server runs backend-applications

(08) You have three LANs running TCP/IP, NWLink and other protocols. They are interconnected   with leased 56k lines and need to have compression. What do you use?

[A] SLIP

[B] PPP

[C] DLC

B (?? I'm not quite sure, but it said compression...)

(09) Which numbers do show how to interpret an IP number?

...

[C] Network Mask

(10) Which adress should make a NIC unique?

MAC-Adress

(11) Which cabling maybe used for 100BaseT?

UTP 3/5 (UTP3 for 100BaseT4 UTP5 for 100BaseTX)

(12) What is the key feature of NDIS/ODI? (had two questions on this stuff)

Running different transport protocols on one NIC with one driver

(13) Where can you use "Share level access"? (Choose three!)

[A] Windows for Workgroups

[B] Windows 95

[C] Windows NT Workstation

[D] Windows NT Server

A, B ,C

(14) What protocol do you use for RAS with compression?

[A] SLIP

[B] PPP

[C] DLC

B (now I am pretty sure!)

(15) What kind of topology do you use for a temporal installation?

A] Ring

[B] Star

[C] Bus

[D] Mesh

C

(16) What is the protocol used with Novell Netware?

IPX/SPX; NWLink

(17) You want to connect your LAN to a IBM 3090, and do not want to change any of the clients protocols. What do you use?

[A] Router

[B] Transceiver

[C] Repeater

[D] Gateway

D

(18) What do you use for 100 MBit Ethernet?

Very funny question! Both Fibre and UTP 5 were given, but no hint on what to concentrate (cost/further implementation) Thanks to Billy for letting me have a nice guess!!

(19) What device do you use to segment your TCP/IP network?

Router

(20) You want to connect your Ethernet, Token Ring and your FDDI network and need flow control, broadcast handling and multiple communication paths. What device do you use?

Router

(21) You have to connect two Ethernets running NetBEUI and IPX and want to overcome broadcast-storms?

BRouter was not an option so I chose Bridge (I guess there are bridges that are able to stop broadcasts, but better look it up yourself, I wasn't sure about that at all)

(22) What do you use for connecting to a new device running a new protocol without changing   your own protocols?

[A] Router

[B] Transceiver

[C] Repeater

[D] Gateway

D

(23) What medium do you use to create a backbone of 1000m length?

[A] Coax

[B] STP

[C] Fibre optic

[D] UTP 5

C

(24) You have to install a new 100 MBit net above your ceiling (little free space) and neet to minimize costs. What medium do you use?

[A] Coax

[B] STP

[C] Fibre optic

[D] UTP 5

B

(25) Which WAN can run at more than 100 MBit/s

[A] X. 25

[B] ISDN

[C] Frame Relay

[D] ATM

D

(26) Which WAN can provide bandwidth on demand?

[A] X. 25

[B] ISDN

[C] Frame Relay

[D] ATM

C

(27) Which protocol do you use for a small peer-to-peer network if NetBEUI is not a choice?

IPX/SPX

(28) Which WAN works reliable on unreliable wires?

[A] X. 25

[B] ISDN

[C] Frame Relay

[D] ATM

A

(29) How do you segment your TCP/IP network?

Again use a Router!

(30) You are able to Ping a server using its IP Number but not using its NetBios-Name. Why?

[A] Client not registered with WINS Server

[B] wrong packet size

[C] wrong netmask

[D] Server not registered with WINS Server

D

(31) SCSI-Controller and NIC won't let your computer boot, without the NIC everything is fine. Why?

IRQ conflict

(32) You are facing problems with a new installed client running IPX. What might be the problem?

Wrong frame type

(33) How to find the source of a broadcast-storm?

Use a Protocol Analyzer! (Hint for the Germans broadcaststorm=Rundsendungssturm)

(34) Typical scenario about a segment being grounded twice.

(35) Typical scenario about a segment having three terminators. (Terminator=Abschluss)

(36) You are suffering from performance loss with your optimized Database-Server, which is connected with 28.8 KB/s.

What to do?

[A] Add more RAM to the server

[B] Install MS ACCESS on the clients

[C] update your WAN to T1

[D] ...

C

(37) Different copy speeds from Ethernet to Token Ring and from Token Ring to Ethernet. Why?

[A] Ethernet is faster

[B] Ethernet packets are bigger

[C] Token Ring packets are bigger

[D] Token Ring is faster

C

(38) What are the tasks of WINS/DHCP Server?

WINS: NetBios-IP number resolution

DHCP: Dynamic IP numbers

(39) What to do if you have two NICs on the Net configured by you with the same MAC adress?

Change it back to manufacturers standard!

(I had a really big question about with lots of information for misleading!)

(40) Sally has access no more without any changes to network and client?

loose cable at the NIC

(41) Cut broadcast traffic down to 50 % in your four segment TCP/IP, NetBEUI, NWLink and Apple-Talk network! How?

Switch of bridging at the BRouters and disable NetBEUI... (scenario question like on the other braindumps)

(42) Scenario: 10 Base T Network with 70 % utilization

Required: Reduce Utiliziation by 50 %

Optional: Keep Utiliziaton down with 40 new clients

Minimize costs

Proposal: Change to FDDI, changing all adapters and cabling.

[A] Required and both optional

[B] Required and one optional

[C] Required and no optional

[D] None

B

(43) One question about reducing utiliziation by decreasing packet-size and increasing TCP window size and changing your UTP3 to UTP5.

Total trash!

(44) Whith what does a NIC configured for IRQ3 collide?

[A] COM1

[B] SCSI

[C] LPT1

[D] COM2

D

(45) What server do you need for using NetBios names with TCP/IP?

[A] DHCP

[B] SLIP

[C] IP

[D] WINS

D

(46) What are the differences between User-level-access and share-level-access?

(47) How to measure the performance of your network? (Protocol Analyzer, I had three questions around that theme)

(48) Which must not be duplicated when using NetBIOS on your single network? (Choose three!)

[A] Computer Name

[B] Domain Name

[C] Username

[D] Sharename

A, B, C

(49) What is the most inexpensive way to implement fault tolerance?

[A] disk striping

[B] Raid level 5

[C] disk duplexing

[D] Backupserver

C

(50) What do you use to monitor and manage your hubs, switches and so on?

[A] TDR

[B] SNMP station

[C] protocol analyzer

[D] packet sniffer

B

(51) Scenario with the three sites in New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta   2 T1 links (NY-AT;AT-LA)

9,6 kbps modem links

(52) Scenario with the three sites in New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta   16 (8 in each direction) 28,8 kbps links between all three site

(53) One question about high-security-stuff with logging of the clients actions, user level security and virus scanning and so on....

I hope that these questions will help you.

Have fun, success and luck with your certification

Take care

Andreas

Now a few lines for the German people having a look at this braindump.

Hallo werdende MCSEs,

da ich ein paar kleine Unterschiede zwischen den deutschen und englischen Fragen festgestellt habe, hier noch ein paar Kommentare zu den deutschen Fragen. Die Benennung fuer die OSI-Schichten fand ich ein wenig seltsam. Wenn da eine Frage kommt auf jeden Fall nochmal auf das Exhibit schauen. Da sind dann naemlich alle Schichten mit den Namen, die waehrend des Examens benutzt werden, dargestellt. Dann kann einen auch Vermittlungsschicht fuer Networklayer nicht mehr schocken. Auch die "Rundsendungsstuerme" lassen sich eigentlich mit ein wenig Nachdenken klaeren. Aber ich denke, es hilft bestimmt, vorher auf ein wenig seltsame Termini gefasst zu sein.

Was ich in meinem Examen auffaellig fand, war die Tatsache, dass oft ziemlich viel an nutzloser Zusatzinformation gegeben wird, die mehr verwirrt als das sie nuetzt. Da ist es wichtig schnell die richtigen Stichworte zu erkennen. Was ich erstaunlich fand, war die Tatsache, dass die Fragen wirklich nicht ueber die Sachen in den Braindumps rausgingen. Es gab eigentlich keine Frage in meinem Examen, die ich nicht schon mal in der einen oder anderen Form gesehen haette. Die Braindumps sind eine unheimlich wichtige Informationsquelle, ich hoffe mal, dass das fuer die noch kommenden Examina aehnlich sein wird.

Euch allen viel Spass, Erfolg und Glueck bei Eurer Zertifizierung

Bis denne

Andreas