Do not confide in ALL braindump answers!!!!!! Someone’s guess maybe wrong and probably is.

I just passed 70-058 today with a score of 844 and I thought I had everything cold. Be careful not to accept answers just because you read them off the net (I did!). Always check your sources twice.

THIS IS A VERY FRESH ACCURATE BRAINDUMP. I HAVE LESS THAN A 12 HOUR PERIOD BETWEEN TAKING THE TEST AND WRITING THIS.

To make this easier I have put asterisks**** next to all the answers that I am positive about and not just guesses.

• There were absolutely NO wireless questions!!!!!
• Know the default IRQ’s cold. This will save you on 3 or 4 questions
• Know the OSI layers that network hardware is associated with

• • ***routers = network

    ***bridges= data link

    ***passive hubs, repeaters = physical

• Know the NETBIOS naming schemes.

• Ex. Which NETBIOS names cannot be duplicated?

1. 1. computer name
   2. domain name
   3. workgroup name à CHOOSE 3
   4. share name

• Know what SMB (Server Message Block) is in conjunction with NETBIOS. I think it is the higher level protocol associated with file and print sharing but you better look it up for yourself!
• Know the difference between DNS and WINS. (**WINS is associated with viewing NetBIOS names in Windows.)
• Know X.25. (***It is a reliable way of packet delivery under unreliable situations. ATM will fail under unreliable switched conditions.)
• Know what a NetWare DOS Requester is and what protocol Win95 needs to use to communicate to it. Read more about this, not many people can answer this one.
• ***Know that a Time-Domain Reflectometer sends sonar-like pulses to administrate.
• Will implementing FDDI in a 120 user unsegmented Ethernet network increase performance by 50 percent? (I said no, look it up for yourself)
• ***Very important point. NetBEUI is NOT routable. To implement use a bridge or brouter.
• Know NDIS / ODI. **Keeps network cards independent of protocols.
• **Frame Relay gives bandwidth on demand and transfers at ANY speed

• Which OS’s can give share level security? (Trick question)

1. 1. Windows for Workgroups
   2. Windows 95
   3. Windows NT
   4. Windows NT Server

• • • ***Someone who was fooled would go for a,b. Know that the NT OS’s can do User level security AND share level!!!!

• ***Routers eliminate broadcast storms because they do not route packets with unknown destination addresses anywhere. Bridges simply allow unknown packets to pass through. (Read MORE!!)
• You’ll see a bus network with 3 terminators attached and it isn’t reliable. I don’t think that more than two terminators is allowed but you’ll have to figure that out for yourself.
• Know PPP vs. SLIP. ***PPP gives data compression and dynamic addressing
• Ex. Mary loses her connection after the holidays. What is the most possible cause?!

• • Answer: ***She has a loose connection somewhere