test name: Internetworking with MS TCP/IP

test #: 70-059

Here is some help and questions which appeared in my TCP/IP adaptive exam,  which I passed with 792. The adaptive exams are harder than the previous format, but you don't need to revise in any other way than you may have done for the other exams you may have done. If you would have passed the  old style exams, then you will pass the new adaptive exams.

I used an Exam Cram, MCSE TestPrep and a New Riders Windows NT TCP/IP Book. The New Riders book wasn't really an exam book, but it gave me some useful info on SNMP, WINS and DNS.

Q1, You are trying to ping a computer on a remote subnet, which keeps  failing. When you use a network packet analyser, the results show that the computer you are using is sending out lots of ARP requests. Why are you unable to ping the remote machine.

A1, The computer is sending out lots of ARP requests because it thinks that remote computer is on the local subnet. The only sensible answer is that your subnet mask is wrong.

Q2, How can you enable you DNS server, which is connected to the Internet, to resolve internet domain names.

A2, Use the CACHE.DNS file which contains the IP addresses of the Internet's root servers.

Q3, One question invloves a subnetted network, and asks why the PC you are using WKSTA03 cannot connect to a remote server. WRKSTA01 is connected to the remote network by a router. The diagram contains all of the IP addresses, subnet masks, and default gateways of all PCs, servers and routers on the network.

A3, The answers for this question include:

1, The IP address of WRKSTA03 is incorrect

2, The subnet mask address of WRKSTA03 is incorrect

3, The IP address of the remote server is incorrect

4, The subnet mask of the remote server is incorrect

When you study WRKSTA03, it has a subnet mask of 255.255.252.0. From doing  the subnet calculations, you should come across the fact that the default gateway of WRKSTA03 is not connected to the same subnet at WRKSTA03, meaning that WRKSTA03's subnet mask is wrong.

Q4, There is a drag and drop question about printing in mixed environments. You will need a pencil to draw a diagram for my explaination. Draw a subnet with the following items connected to it:

1. An NT server with a local printer

2. A network printer

3. A Workstation

4. A UNIX server with a local printer

You are given 4 items of software to use in your network, TCP/IP Printing, LPR, LPQ and LPD Service. You can use each item as many times as you wish. These items must be dragged and dropped on the network hardware in the diagram. The NT server needs 1 item, the network printer needs 1 item, the UNIX server needs 1 item, and the workstation needs 2 items. The NT server must be able to act as a print server for it's local printer   and for the network printer, meaning it must have TCP/IP printing  installed. The UNIX printer must be able to act as a print server for it's local printer, meaning it must have the LPD Service installed. You must be able to print to the network printer and monitor the printers queue, meaning it must have LPR and LPQ installed. The network printer needs to be able to provide print services to the network. I wasn't sure about this, so I put TCP/IP printing on it, I just thought it needed an IP  address.

There are several questions about being able to browse multiple subnets and why you may not be able to given a given scenario. There were no questions about the number of available Network IDs and Host IDs that are available for a given subnet mask. Understanding that for a given subnet mask you can't use the first and last subnets as they contain all zeros or ones, i.e. for a subnet of 224, you get subnets spaced by 32, so you can't use 0-31, or 224-255.

Other people on this site say the exam is hard, it may be, but I don't think it's any harder than it was before the adaptive exams appeared.

Only IIS4 to do.

SuperG.