Completed the N.E. test today with a score of 963.

In addition to all of the standard items mentioned in the reports from all of the other test takers, here is some unique items that were on my test.

  1. Know that with a brouter you can turn off bridging and it becomes a router and that if you do this and netbeui is being used on the connected subnets it will quit working because it cannot be routed.
  2. Know that a bus network is only terminated on both ends and grounded on one end. One question showed a bus that was terminated on both ends and another showed a bus that had a T connector in the middle and another bus branching off which was also terminated.
  3. Ndis and ODI support multiple transport protocols on a single network card.
  4. You are on an ethernet network and want to connect to an IBM mainframe with terminal emmulator software, but do not want to add anymore protocols on the client computer. You need to use a gateway.
  5. SMB is a protocol that supports file access on computers using netbios.
  6. Two network cards configured with the same MAC address will not communicate with each other.
  7. Yes you can change the mac address on a card.
  8. Operating systems that support share level security are WIN95 and Win 3.11
  9. Which WAN service supports data rates over 100MB; ATM or T1. I put ATM, I don't think T! is a "service".
  10. Decreasing TCP/IP MTU size and increasing window size will not reduce net-work utilization.
  11. Network software initializes, protocol is IPX but station cannot communicate, all other stations on the segment are fine, the problem is wrong frame type.
  12. Use SNMP to manage Bridges, Routers, and repeaters
  13. Duplicate netbios names will cause problems for domain names, computer names but not share names as long as the shares are on different computers.
  14. Changing from CAT 3 to Cat 5 cable will not decrease network utilization, just by itself
  15. Max trunk length for 10base2 is 925 meters
  16. Use frame relay if you want to use any bandwidth that is available, this is the bandwidth on demand question put another way.

 

Good luck to all

 Jeff