MSCE Network Essentials Exam. 
18th December 1997.

Hi there. My name is Warren and I've just taken the above mentioned exam. I took 10 minutes to complete it and my score was 862, which I think isn't to bad for the time I took.

The exam wasn't too tricky, I had a lot of questions on 'cable types', ' where would you use what (router, brouter etc)' about 4 scenario questions, and 2 NT related questions. There were no wireless or ATM questions that I can think of.

If you are studying for the exam, then I would suggest that you summarize the book (I used the Sybex Networking Book - not that useful), and try and get some quiz software. I used NetPrep from www.mcpprep.com which was very useful. It contained quite a lot of similar questions that I found in the exam.

I will try to rack my brain and see if I can come up with a few questions in order to help you.

  1. What would you include to manage your network?  Answer. SNMP.
  2. Three cities linked with three T1 lines and 28,800 modems. Required, at least1mb link. Optional 1mb speed at all times, and connectivity if a link fails. Answer Required and one optional.
  3. Greg can't see the network but his network card fires OK. Answer. Incorrect transceiver settings.
  4. You install a network card and you computer no longer boots? Answer SCSI Network Card Irq Conflict.
  5. What operating systems allow you to share and use resources on them. Options: WFW Win95 Win NT WS and Win NT Server. Choose however many. Answer: I guessed this one.
  6. A question on security, so please brush up on your NT and Win95 Security.
  7. What Wan link will give you 100mb or over speed? Answer ATM (oops there was an ATM question).
  8. What will give you a consistent connection? X25.
  9. Which link is not switchable. Answer T1.
  10. You need to give a cheap 19200 connection 24 hours a day. Answer leased Analogue.
  11. What would you use to make a 100mb network, budget is low? Answer 10baseT.
  12. You need to cable an office, but you can't rip anything up and it must be cheap? Answer Bus net and Coaxial.
  13. What device will all X network to connect with Y? Bridge.
  14. You need to connect to networks which use totally different protocols, what would you use? Answer Gateway.
  15. What is attenuation, crosstalk etc
  16. You measure a thinnet cable via the T what reading will you get? Answer 25ohms.
  17. What reading would you get from an arcnet terminator? Answer 93ohms.
  18. Your friend has used TV cable for his network what is wrong. Answer should use RG58A/U cable. Well I hope that these questions will be of help to you.


Read all the brain dumps that you can, and do as many questions as you can lay your hands on. Good luck to Andre who takes his MSCE in January, and good luck to everybody else.