Novemer 18, 1998 Bergen, Norway

Hi there all you guys who would like to know more information about the test. I took the test today and guess what…the ‘coach’ (because in my 'real' life I'm a tennis coach) passed. What a miracle! Thor (that's because I'm in Norway) must have been watching over me today.

In my opinion, the exam was much tougher than any of the test questions we worked on in class. However, there are about 7 to 9 easy questions that you can answer just by ‘using your own bytes of memory’. For example there were 2 questions about cable types and length and one about dial-up and using SLIP. In addition there was one about which techology connected at 100 Mbps +.

I was stopped after 25 questions. I guess if you go past this, you are really on the borderline. There were no questions on RAID, adapter types, IRQ, access methods, token ring, user/share levels.

Here are a few of the questions as much as I can remember. Feel free to ask me questions.

Good Luck

Phil

You have a DHCP server and and WINS server.
Your are using TCP/IP
You can communicate with the network using the IP address, but not when using the servers name.

What do you examine first?

  1. DHCP server.
  2. WINS server
  3. Gateway
  4. Router

Required: Reduce the utilization by 50%

Options:

  1. Continue growth
  2. Maintain new network utilization.
  3. Minimize costs.

Proposal: Reduce the packet size from 1514 to 576 bytes. Increase the TCP/IP window size from 4096 to 16384. Replace the Cat 3 cables with Cat 5.

  1. Required plus all options.
  2. Required plus 2 of the options.
  3. Required plus none of the options.
  4. Not the required.

You want to monitor and manage hubs, bridges and routers on the network.

What do you use?

  1. Performace Monitor
  2. SNMP implementation
  3. Protocol analyzer
  4. TDR

3 Servers using NT. 75 Clients using NetBEUI. You want to connect a UNIX network that uses NFS.

  1. Bridge
  2. Brouter
  3. Router
  4. Gateway

You have a network using NetBEUI and TCP/IP. The server and client are in different subnets. The client can PING the server, but cannot access the server using its name.

  1. Client and the server have the same IP address
  2. Server has the wrong subnet mask.
  3. Server’s name not registered with the name server.
  4. Client’s name not registered with the name server.

One drag and drop question where you had to match protocols. You are using TCP/IP and IPX/SPX. The picture showed the three general layers (Application, Network Transportation).

You had to click TCP UDP to match with SPX and IP to match with IPX.

Large network with 2000 users users notice that at various times in the day network time outs occur.

What is the reason?

  1. Power fluctuations.
  2. Malfunctioning net adapter on the router.
  3. Terminated segement.
  4. Logging of users.

You have a network that uses T1 and is connected to the internet. Which backup connection could you use to support e-mail in the event of failure.

  1. T3
  2. ATM
  3. ISDN
  4. ?

You have 3 branches that you want to connect to the main office. The branches will need 150 meters of cable and the distance between the main office and the branches is 20 miles.

The solution was to install UTP in the offices and use fiber optic cable between the office and the branches.

I chose would not provide the required result.

Another question regarding TCP/IP and SPX/IPX and network storms. Which of the following (select 3) could contribute to the problem.

  1. RIP
  2. SAP
  3. OSPF
  4. ARP
  5. TCP
  6. SPX
    HTTP