Hi folks, I've been using these braindumps for the last three exams now, so I feel that I should give something back.

Thanks to everyone who posts here, and a special thanks to our host for maintaining this great site. As another person put it, we'd all be in a "world of hurt" without it. Just finished my forth exam, Networking Essentials, passing with my highest mark yet; 965.

And I finished with over half an hour left. I think, though, that I got about the easiest questions possible. Had TWO on wrong transcievers and TWO on wrong IPX frame settings. I also had one that was so stupidly easy that I almost started laughing:

What communication protocols can be used to establish a connection over a dial-up line?

(Choose all that apply)

the ONLY options given were SLIP and PPP.

I started studying for this test shortly prior to taking my Enterprise exam two weeks ago. I had nothing but the most basic ideas of how networks even functioned before that. I used Sybase's study guide to get up to speed, but no way could you pass with just that. I took the Edge and Transcender tests, both good, and spent quite some time researching various issues on TechNet and the internet. Oh, and the braindumps, of course. Most of the questions I had were very basic, and I had seen almost all of them either here or in one or another practice exam.

Of the two questions I got wrong, one was in Implentation and one was in Troubleshooting. These are the ones I think I might have missed:

I had the NetBIOS naming scheme scenarios. The first was the classic unique hexadecimal number. No problem there, but the other was worded pretty strangely:

You have 1000 servers and 30,000 clients in three cities. No WAN exists yet, but you are planning on implementing one later. Your job is to implement a NetBIOS naming scheme.

Required:

- NetBIOS names should be unique

- The scheme should work even after the WAN is added.

Optional:

- The name should describe the computer's main function.

- The name should describe the primary user so it can be used for email.

Solution:

8 characters for department, 5 for location, and 2 digits to distinguish between multiple SERVERs in the department. Obviously it doesn't describe the user, but does it describe the computer's function?

I said that it did, but who knows what Microsoft thinks? Read this one carefully if you get it.

The other scenario I got which I wasn't sure about was a take on the fault tolerance question. The odd thing about it was that one of the optional requirements was that your security model should protect against "password breaking programs". The solution included forcing password changes every 40 days. Nothing about account locking for logon failures.

In my opinion, this doesn't meet the requirements, but again it's hard to tell what MS thinks is the truth.

I have no idea which troubleshooting question I got wrong. Probably a volt-ohm reading because I keep seeing different answers to what ohm a t-connector should be. I'm under the impression that it should be zero - I think this is what Sybase says, but I've also seen infinity as the answer elsewhere.

The only questions I've never really noticed anywhere were two in which it gives you a description then lists about 15 things that you have to choose from. They were both chestnuts, though. The first was something like "This protocol allows routers to gather information regarding how many hops a destination is". It then listed every protocol imaginable. RIP was down near the bottom.

The other one was "This describes the problem of data on one cable interfering with the signal on another cable". Crosstalk was near the top.

I did not get the RAS modem question, and I was rather hoping for it. I don't know if the Speed/8*100*# of modems is correct, but I think it is closer than Speed*# of modems. The only reason I believe this is an article from TechNet regarding RAS Multilink Modems on NT Workstation, in which it talks about getting a 134,000bps speed from four 28.8 modems.

The first algorithm should give it 144,000, the second 115,000. I went so far as to look at the RFCs for Multilink PPP for a clue on this, but found nothing. My only guess is that the protocol somehow gives you a greater speed than the sum of the modems alone.

I wish I could test this.

Finally, I just wanted to make a comment on user vs. share security. I know for a fact that Win95 can assign user-level security to its resources in either an NT domain or a NetWare network, although of course it is share only when peer-to-peer. However, I've seen some people say that NTWS can assign share-level permissions. As far as I could find out, it CANNOT. Even in a peer-to-peer workgroup, NTWS works on user-level security (remember, it has a SAM, too).

Look it up in the Resource Kit if you don't believe me.

Again, thanks to everyone who has contributed and I hope this helps someone. I'm off to enjoy a four day weekend before starting in on TCP/IP. Cheers!