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Networking Essentials-Brain Dump

Length of Exam: 75 minutes
# of questions:58
Pass score: 793 (46 of 58)

General Impressions

-It seems that M$/Sylvan Prometric changed the Net Essentials. The exam I took did not resemble the exam described in the brain dumps out there.

-Microsoft starts off the exams hard. The first 10 questions are by far the hardest on the exam. I have learned after 4 tests to just glance through the first 10 or so questions, answer the one or two easy ones. I mark the more difficult ones to comes back to. When I finished the entire exam I had 14 questions that I did not answer 8 were in the first 10!

My advice: work on the harder ones later.

-pay attention to the questions every word is important.

-resistance vs. impedence. Know the difference between them. What readings for each you should get. My test asked about resistance. The SSK talks about impedence. They are different.

- There were 12 questions that were scenario based in groups of 2. Several were extremely challenging. (6 scenarios at 2 questions each).

-There were at least 10 questions, not really scenarios but what would you use to do this with...... They wanted you to have a good understanding of what a bridge, router, brouter, gateway and repeaters. Many of these questions had more "non-useful" information than useful information. You must know this well or it will be a long day!

-Know where bridge, router, brouter, repeater and gateway fit into the layer model.

-At least 6 questions on what instrument would you use to investigate this problem. They wanted to know whether you knew everything about DVM, TDR, Protocol Analyzer, Network Monitor. Understand what each one does and under what circumstances it would be useful.

-There were 2 questions on which protocol is a transport, session, network, etc protocol.

-2 questions on which protocol to use for a given situation.

-Know the routable protocols. They ask a question or 2 about that. Several of the scenarios required you to look at the protocols used and decide whether or not the solution would work. Some of them required the knowledge of routable protocols.

-Connection vs connectionless- 1 question

-Security issues were there- 3 general questions about it. What type of security does this type of network have......... At least 2 of the scenarios had security mixed into them.

-There was nothing on my exam about wireless communication. Nothing on what happens at what layer of the OSI model (besides the where are gateway, router, etc style questions)

-There is absolutely no way you can memorize your way through this exam.

You must understand what you are doing.

Gary