TCP/IP 4.0 70-59

My test was an "adaptive hybrid" -- According to the intro, there were 2

sections, the first was adaptive, containing 15-25 questions, followed by 10

"standard" questions. There was no way to differentiate these portions, and

the whole test had the "adaptive hallmarks" of: no backtracking (no

"previous" or "mark and return"), a strange score result, and no category

breakdown on the report.

I got 761 with a passing score of 570 -- from what I gather with these

adaptive tests, the passing score and scale varies with the actual questions

asked. I only had 25 questions (the minimum) so I have to assume that I hit

most of them correctly.

Unfortunately, my brain has small buffer for details like the specifics of

the questions, so any attempt to "dump" them here would likely result in

mistakes that would potentially be too misleading to be useful.

However, here are my impressions and an overview of what was emphasized on

my test...

-- They seem to be starting to shift the questions to the next generation of

NT (NETBIOS less critical).

1) Almost all the scenarios involved UNIX clients as a key element (about 5

scenarios total).

2) Although WINS is a very big deal to MS with NT 4.0 -- it had less

emphasis than the "older" study material might indicate (although you STILL

need to know all about it). Know your DNS/WINS interplay. (Also finding or

not seeing the PDC/Domain Master Browser if there is no WINS).

-- Contrary to previous recent brain dumps, on my test, subnet masking was

still important

3) No questions in which you're given X numbers of clients or subnets and

asked for the mask, but a number of questions (2-3) in which you still had

to know how to use the mask and "decode" IP addresses to answer the

questions.

-- Other items

4) Know your command-line utilities. Almost half of the questions involved

them. (mostly need to know what utility to use to find out a specific piece

of information -- not really tested on syntax of the switch to use)

5) I was presented with screen output from a ROUTE PRINT command and asked

about the gateway address used.

6) The "drag-and-drop" question was pretty trivial. Drop the term onto the

description -- for instance, NBTSTAT, PING, ARP, DHCP and "allows you to see

NETBIOS statistics and the name cache," "connects with another computer via

host address or name," "displays the hardware address mappings cached at the

computer," and "allows you to automatically configure clients with TCP/IP

settings" ...these are only examples, the specific items may have been

different, and the descriptions certainly were.

In general -- it was a pretty fair test. it was difficult and there WERE

some tricky questions, but it really did do a good job at testing

understanding and not trivia.

Good Luck!