I studied entirely through self-study - the best way, I think. Started in early August 1996. Reckon I'll have 12 months before the certification police comes around to ask me to update.
....here's a brain dump. Since some feathers got a bit ruffled because of the explicit nature of my last tips, have decided to just give people directions this time (Sorry! But honestly, the nature of the exam is such that your brain is like jelly when
*Internetworking with Microsoft TCP/IP on Microsoft Window NT 4.0*
Passing Score: 750 Time allowed: 90 minutes No of questions: 58
My score: 896 (not bad, not great) Planning: 100%, Installation and Configuration: 92%, Connectivity:100%, Monitoring and Optimisation: 100%, Troubleshooting: 73%
*IP Subnetting and addressing*
About 4 questions that give the usual network ID, required no of hosts/subnets and asks for an approriate Subnet mask. Kinda easy, I only needed the following table. I think its pretty silly for people to duplicate full blown tables:
Bits required: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Binary value 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
Mask Value 128 192 224 240 248 252 253 254
Max subnets - 2 6 14 30 62 126 -
for Class C
Max hosts/ 128 62 30 14 6 2 1 0
subnet for Class C
*Multihomed computers*
-The usual four computers scenario: two multihomed computers in the middle, two single interface computers on the outside. What route command to allow the outer computers to connect with each other. What got me stuck was the subnet mask info that you need
*Scenario questions*
Some were quite tough. I think I got some wrong here so don't rely on my word:
-Very complex customer requirement involving some NT servers, NT workstations clients, 95 clients and UNIX computers on subnets. Unix computers don't move.
-NO! YOU CAN NO LONGER JUST CHOOSE "DOES NOT MEET THE REQUIRED RESULT AND DOES NOT WORK". The answers are much more balanced now!!! Thank god! Some answers can be "meets the required result but only x of the optional results".
*WINS*
Some on replication. Heaps of questions that posit requirements that only WINS can support such as dynamic name registrations (e.g. You're on a Windows-based network requires dynamic name registration as opposed to DNS, DHCP, FTP(?????!!!!!!))
-There was one question that proposed a replication solution with the push parameter at 50,000 which was totally silly cos the network it was on did not have enough clients to generate that kinda volume.
*DNS*
3 questions directly at DNS. Pretty simple: Secondary servers load balance, Caching only server access to internet and can act as forwarding DNS servers. One on Canonical names syntax (CNAME)
*Troubleshooting* (I did the worst in this section :-()
-A handful regarding best tool (about 5). Really easy ones asked for logging and graphing capabilities which can only be supported by Performance Monitor (and Network Monitor program). Hard ones were that netstat could show stats since server was booted.
-Some were regarding why a user could access a computer via UNC and not IP and vice versa and some were phrased in the context of a diagram.
*SNMP*
Hardly any questions on SNMP! Just one in a scenario question (I think)
*RAS*
Really just related to PPTP. One answer tried to convince you to answer Use Microsoft Authentication - but that's for people dialing not VPNing in!
*DHCP*
A question relating to different groups of users that require different lease periods etc. Answers (I think): create different scopes for different groups of users.
*TCP/IP printing*
Only got two. What do you do to allow unix losers, er, users to print to a printer on an NT printer? (Install MS TCP/IP printing server) What do you do to print from an NT client to a printer connected to a UNIX computer (Use lpr).