I took my Net Essentials test today and passed with an 844, not great but I'll take it!

Had a lot of the same questions in previous brain dump messages, including:

• Tons of questions about routers and bridges.  If you know this subject, then they   are all gimmies.
• About 6 situational ?'s.  Mostly about reducing broadcast storms (easy, use routers) or how to decrease utilization by 50%.  That one was funny because you'd think the proposed solution had something to do with segmenting the network, but it was install Fiber Optic cable throughout.  This of course would speed up the network, but met none of the optional results.
• Bunch of stuff on WAN technologies, situational too.
• About 5 questions on the stupid protocol analyzer, Performance monitor junk.  I answered protocol analyzer on all of them (going by a suggestion in an earlier brain dump).  Hey I passed, so it must be a good suggestion.
• Got the tricky question about why it takes longer to download a file from token ring to ethernet than from ethernet to token ring.  I think it is because the frame size for token ring is bigger, and when you break it apart, it creates more overhead.  Someone earlier said it was because one was faster than the other, that is NOT right.

• Nothing on OSI model (except where routers and bridges reside)
• Nothing on obscure protocols
• Nothing on sliding windows(thank God)

 
All in all, I thought the test was pretty straight forward.  If you read the Microsoft book, take the transcender tests, and read the braindumps, you should be in good shape.  Come on, what's a $100, take a chance.

Have questions? feel free to E-mail me (not that I'm a network super-god)
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