test name: NT Server 4.0

test # 70-67

Hi all! just passed the NT Server test. It is adaptive too, at least here in DC. This site was very helpful, but I do not think I would have passed it if I had not studied and played with the software and hardware. Here is how I went about it, which by the way, is the same approach I'll take for Enterprise and any other area of MCSE that'll require some hands-on. Although I have a little experience working with a computer at work in a Domain environment, and have been around computers for many years, NT was new to me. Thus, I decided to put my own LAN together (as in, 'Tom's way to MCSE.') This was so cool too. First I needed at least two computers. Most of us have a computer around the house, so I decided to use my brand spanking new Compaq as my server1. Yeah, yeah, so it was not in the HCL (you need to know what 'HCL' is by the way!) but it works. I also checked to on line yard sales for a system I could use as a "client." Here in DC, there is a place that sells old used systems (486s and Pentiums, etc.) and I was able to pick up a 486/33 - 16 meg Mem. (the test WILL ask you the min. for an NT installation.) and a 300 Meg HD. (125 min for NT Server). Guess what? Right after Christmas, I was throwing away empty boxes and someone had thrown away an old 486 compaq. After booting it up and resurrecting the EPROM, I had another client! I did had to buy a video sw. and a cheap keyboard. The whole set up (including a small hub and cables) cost me about $250 bucks! Now for the software. As many of you know, NT Server 4.0 with a few CALs can cost anywhere from 3 to 1,200 bucks. You can find "copies" on the net, but this is illegal, and not nice, never mind YOU CAN GO TO JAIL. Anyway, why steal the stuff? Microsoft gives it out free. That's right, if you go to their site and dig enough, you can get 120 day eval copies (EVAL, being the key word, you can not put it in your business' puters). A current kit even has all the upgrade packages and even some back office products. Same thing with the training kits. If you don't mind reading a book on the screen, you can get an "IT" kit that contains ALL the Server, Workstation, and many other training and resource kits. Most of these are also eval stuff, but all we need them for is for training, and since we are also in the process becoming NT groupies, Microsoft is happy to help. Bottom line is, my home LAN is loaded, and consists of one PDC, a BDC when required, and/or two clients. Cool, huh.

Hope this helps.

Angel.