Subject: Braindump 70-59 TCP/IP
Passed today 982 - just one question away from a perfect score!
Transcenders were excellent - there were so many questions that were almost word for word from there. I used the New Riders Test Prep book, which was also very good except for the practice exams at the end which asked lots of nonsense questions which were never going to be in the actual exam and meant that I scored very low on each one - not a good way to build confidence.
What you need:
Other Braindumps here are very accurate...
You'll need to know your subnetting for a few questions - if you write down a table before you start, then there were about 5 or 6 questions where you can just glance at the table and know the answer straight away. I just wrote down the binary, then what it meant as a subnet, how many subnets and how many class C addresses:
11000000 192 2 62
11100000 224 6 30
11110000 240 14 14
11111000 248 30 6
11111100 252 62 2
11111110 254 126 -
11111111 255 254 -
I had once class B question, but as that really only asked about subnets it was easy. Know your utilities: Netstat, nbtstat, performance monitor, network monitor, tracert, arp were all the ones I had questions on - no switches asked, just "what do you use to..." The only one that nearly caught me out was getting a chart of network statistics which I almost went with netstat - before realising that it means a REAL chart (not just a listing) so it's obviously Performance Monitor Scenario questions weren't too bad. One set of four questions were so obvious - the first answer was "doesn't meet requirement", the second was "meets requirement but not the optionals", then "meets requirements and only 2 optionals" and the 4th was "meetss requirement and all optionals".
Exhibits were a pain as they are so big it's impossible to see both the exhibit and the question (in the UK they only use 14" monitors!). But the questions weren't too tough - one on ROUTE ADD - you should know how to work this out, so don't get confused by the look of the exhibit which used multihomed servers instead of standard routers. Only question I wasn't sure of was: you have a small network, 3 subnets. you want to all browsing of all subnets. what do you implement?
(Exhibit shows subnet A has 2 workstations, subnet b has 3 workstations and a PDC, subnet C has 3 workstations and a BDC)
Answers:
Implement LMHOSTS on all workstations
Implement WINS
Implement DNS
Implement DHCP (or something equally daft)
I wanted to answer WINS - and think I should have done, but as it was a very small Network I chose LMHOSTS. I reckon WINS is probably the answer - it is Microsoft after all. One question on why you couldn't connect to a server when it's specified in the LMHOSTS file correctly:
I wouldn't have know this, but last option was "set up for p-node resolution" which means that the client will ONLY query the WINS server and not look at the LMHOSTS file.
Another on why you could ftp using IP address but not name, and they show you the hosts file. Again, almost chose the wrong option:
Host file is somthing like:
10.11.12.13 UNIX programmer # Programmers FTP server
10.11.12.14 server # programmers server
10.11.12.15 UNIX developer # Developers FTP server
10.11.12.20 developer # developers server
Answers are:
LMHOST file is incorrectly ordered (they always throw that one in) ftp servers IP address is not 10.11.12.20 something else which could easilly have been the right answer - then I noticed the comment saying that 10.11.12.15 was the FTP server, so it had to be answer B
I recommend you go to the examcram site "www.cramsession.com" and print out the exam cram for this one - it really does give you just about everything you need.
Thanks to everybody who's sent - it made what I thought was going to be a really tough exam into a real breeze - it was as much as I could do not to laugh at the simplicity of some of the questions.
5 down, one to go to get my MCSE...
Phil