Subject: Exam TCP/IP v4 for Windows NT.

First of all I would to thank Robert for this great site and offer my thanks to everyone who contributes to it. I just got back from taking the exam and am pleased to report that I passed with a 948. So I guess that means I missed 3 questions.

The study materials I used for the exam were the Microsoft Press book for Internetworking with TCP/IP on Windows NT 4, the Windows NT Server resource kit, and of course the Trancender exams. I would highly recommend anyone preparing for this exam to fork out the $120 or so for the resource kit, it covers alot of things that the Microsoft Press book doesn't.

All in all I must say that this was not that difficult of an exam as alot of people have made it out to be. If you take the time to study like you should and understand everything that you study, you should have no problem.

As far as the test was concerned, if I remember correctly I think I got about 8 scenario questions in a row right off the bat. The first one was regarding a mixed NT-Unix enviroment and how to go abouit implementing DHCP and WINS among other things. Ther were 4 questions regarding this same scenario, each time with different proposed solutions.If you've done your homework these questions are simple as were the other scenarios.

As has been said many times before on this site, know WINS, DHCP, and DNS well and how they interact, if you dont you will fail.

Alot of the troubleshooting questios had to do with these services, so be sure you know how to identify the problem and identify the solution.

The utility questions were simple. I had no questions regarding switches, but you should know them, just in case. The ones I got asked about were NETSTAT, IPCONFIG, NBTSTAT, ARP, NETMON, and  PREFORMANCE MONITOR. All very basic.Got a few question regarding LMHOSTS and HOSTS file. Just be sure you can detect invaled entries and you should be fine.

As far as subnetting I think I had about 8, much more than I have seen from all the other dumps on this sight. I did not use a subnet table or anything like that, I come from a digital electronics background so binary is nothing new to me.

Well thats about all I can remember, if you study hard and understand everything you study, you should have no problem.

Regards AL