Subject: Networking Essentials Brain Dump

Passed NE today with 931.

Blue screen of death on first three questions was somewhat unsettling. However I put my head down and carried on, not wishing to let myself down after spending some time preparing for this exam. I finished in about 40 min and spent the remainder of the ti

The resources that I used in preparing were:

- NE SSK from Microsoft.

- Demo sample exams from Transcender, Microsoft, CicsPrep and others. The demos were sufficient to give the flavour and format of the actual exam without my having to purchase full versions.

- QUE SelfPrep/Tests book. I found the review material in here very helpful, while the standard of the questions only average. The answers provided to many of the questions were quite wrong - definitely needing another proof read !

- NT 4.0 Networking Resource Kit.

- Readings I accumulated from a number of white papers (Southhills Datacom in particular) and networking and PC magazines.

- Braindumps for sharpening up.

In any form of study I think you have to come in on the material from many angles.

I made three passes through NE SSK: the first for understanding, the second for question creation and the third for repeating all the questions, case studies, troubleshooting and LAN planners.

I created some 450 4 to 6 option multichoice questions from the material in the book. This both deepened my understanding of the material, gave me some insight into the minds of our MCSE 'inquisitioners' and provided me with tests that I could use to do r

The exam itself:

- Characteristic of server based networks.

- Connection/connectionless.

- SLIP vs PPP.

- Three cities WAN connections - with a new twist. Redundant dial up connections now between each pair of cities.

- Two subnets with different protocols - how to connect when no software changes allowed.

- Two WINS server pinging problems. One DHCP server question.

- Excess terminator, incorrect grounding, loose cable problems.

- Subnet mask.

- Tranceiver, frame-type(NWLink) problems.

- Connection device for two TCP/IP subnets.

- Nothing on OSI model, wireless.

Many thanks to all who have contributed to this site.

Tyrrell