Subject: networking essentials brain dump

Hello all! Passed Net Ess. yesterday with a 844 (not as good as I expected/ wanted, but it'll do). This was my 2nd MS test (NT Workstation was my first, and I felt it was easier). I prepared for this exam with the Exam Cram book, the official MS Net E

Here's what was on my test:

I had a variation on the infamous 3 cities scenario that need to be connected question with the scenario being using 2 T1's, and 2 analog lines on the same route. (didn't allow for T1 speed in the event of T1 fail )

The next question was connecting the 3 cities with 8 2.8 modems between each. (i chose d, 8 x 28.8 doesn't equal T1 speed)

there were 3-4 definition question with protocol analyzer as the answer (and they were all pretty obvious)

I had 2-3 on SLIP vs. PPP (PPP uses compression)

I had one with assurred delivery and I had to pick connection or connectionless delivery (connection)

There were 2 questions about ATM

There were a few questions on user level vs. share level security... with the absolute vaguest and worst definitions of those topics I've eer seen. I think I missed a few of these questions due to the sorriness of the definitions or vagueness of the que

There were 2 on he functions of NDIS/ODI where the answers were that it allows multiple protocols to be bound to 1 NIC and it allows the NIC to be independant of protocols.

I had 3 diagrams of a faulty setup involving 10base2 ethernet and you had to see what was wrong with it (not grounded properly, cable too long, etc.)

2 on WINS/DNS, one was a simple definition, the other involved knowing that you couuld still ping via the IP addres, it was only when you typed the names that somehting was wrong

1 question on the variation of rates between Ethernet and Token Ring (Token ring fram size is larger, thus faster)

one scenario in which you want to implement user level security, keep down time to a minimum, back up data, and protect from virii. you use NT server, use RAID 5, daily tape backups, a UPS, and virus scan. meets required and all optional in my eyes

2 question involving router definitions (ie, you want a device that chooses from multiple paths, or one that prevents broadcast storms)

1 question invlolving an IRQ conflict (IRQ3 conflicted with COM2) and one where it could be IRQ, I/O address, MAC address, or something goofy (i choose I/O address because it wasn't a IRQ problem and the I/O addrss was 300, which conflicts with COM2 (actu

one scenario question about minimal TCP/IP admin with the solution being install a DHCP server. sounded just fine to me.

2 scenario questions about having TCP/IP, IPX, Appletalk and Netbui as protocols for a network. you want to reduce network traffic . one solution was get rid of all protocls but TCP/IP and Appletalk and turn the bridging off your brouters. (works for

one IPX/SPX wrong frame type question

one question about which provides processing power for the client: application server or file & print server , or both (application server only)

that's all I can remember. In sum, I thought the test was easy, the only part that made it hard was sloppy wording on the test. Keep your guard up and read everything! Good luck.

Jeff