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Hi all,

I have just completed my 1^st paper on 5 August 1998.

A million thank you to all those who have contributed to this website. When I saw the full bar on the screen, implying that I scored a 1000, I was thrilled.

Here's what I hastily wrote down on that night itself. Pardon the short sentences. I haven't found time to arrange them in a more readable way. You should be able to find all these questions, in their more original format, in the other brain dumps. The answers can be trusted. Please make sure you understand the questions and answers rather than just memorizing them. That way, even if the questions are slightly altered, you can still answer them.

All the best to your coming exam.

Warmest regards,

Mandatory Profile, Server down – User cannot logon.
Install Winnt from CD-ROM – Select all that apply – Boot to DOS, make sure dos CD-ROM drivers installed, run winnt.exe from CD, Boot from Setup boot disk.
Workgroup of NT wkstns. Want to install a NT Server as a PDC. Want NT wkstns to be in domain. – Domain Admin to add computer acct of each wkstn using Server Manager, and, Wkstn Admin to login to each wkstn and from ‘network’ join the domain.
RAS clients keep getting disconnected – enable device logging from registry.
RAS have 2 type of clients. Win95 and 3^rd party which only recognise DES. The most secure – Require Encrypted Authentication.
RAS clients dial in to access Winsock program. All servers and wkstns have NETBEUI and TCP/IP. What needs to be done to allow communication ? – Select how an IP add will be assigned.
Exhibit – require clients to be able to select own method of authentication – Any authentication including clear text.
1 PDC and 3 member servers, want to speed up Logon – reinstall one member server to be BDC.
TCP/IP in a non-routed network. Need only IP add and subnet mask.
For NT to act as a router – need 2 NICs, enable IP forwarding and manually assign unique IP add to each NIC.
2 NT servers and a group of wkstns. 1 tape connected to 1 NT server, back up all machines. Backup took too long. – Connect another tape drive to the other server, backup the wkstns, the original tape drive backup servers.
To monitor TCP/IP on NT servers from wkstn, use perfmon and must install SNMP on each server to be monitored.
To create share on a server from a remote client, install client network tools and run server manager.
To manage print security over the network, run Windows Explorer.
To change file permissions over the network, run Windows Explorer.
Printer Pool – must ensure that all printers can use the same printer driver. Incidentally they also share the same name. But they need not be directly connected to the print server.
Printer broke down. Decided to use another network printer to finish the pending print jobs, goto the ports tab and add a logical port with a UNC path to the printer.
DHCP can assign to clients, IP address, subnet mask, Default gateway, WINS server IP add, DNS server IP add……others like DNS domain name, NetBIOS node type….
Netware clients to access client/server app that supports NetBIOS on NT server. Install NWLink on NT server.
Win95 and Win3.1 clients with clients for MS-networks and NWLink installed. Need to access resources on both NT and Netware server – Install GSNW on NT.
After Installing GSNW, you must create a group called NTGATEWAY on Netware server.
To migrate from Netware to NT, you need Nwlink and GSNW. However if asked what do u need to install ? – Install GSNW will do. NWLink comes along.
1 HDD. 2 partitions. 1 FAT – sys and boot partition. 2 NTFS – empty. Want to implement security on 1^st partition. – Don’t need to format to NTFS. Just CONVERT.EXE from command prompt. Remember if NT is running, the conversion only runs the next time u reboot the server. It converts at the blue screen and then restarts again. So the server will reboot twice to convert.
2 SCSI adapter 2 HDD. Want FT. – Only Duplex is possible. Mirror was not among the choices.
3 HDD 1 adapter– Want Fastest access, Want Continue access in case 1 HDD failed. The choices were really bad – Only 2 FT choices. Duplex and Stripe set with Parity. You tell me.
2 SCSI adapter. Duplex mode. 1 adapter BIOS disabled. Need to create Boot Disk in case 1^st adapter failed. What among the others files is required ? NTBOOTDD.SYS.
During Installation, setup did not detect your CD-ROM. Restart the setup from the beginning and this time invoke the ‘S’ – manual selection of CD-ROM drivers.
Exhibit – Mirror Set, SCSI adapter. BIOS disabled. 3 partitions on each disk. What is the ARC path to the mirror ?

Disk 0 : System | Data | Data
Disk 1 : Data | System ( Mirror ) | Data

Scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)

Move a file from one dir to another within the same NTFS partition. – Permissions retained.
Move a file from NTFS partition to FAT partition – LFN retained, Permissions discarded.
Your server seldoms have more than 10 connections, how to change server settings to take advantage of the situation ? – Server Service.
Exhibit - So and so just got promoted from engineer to consultant. Need to access certain shared folder. Rights for engineer – No access. Rights for consultant – Change. So and so is member of engineer and consultant group. Can he access ? How to allow him the access ? – Remove so and so from engineer group.
Suspect excess paging is causing the performance to degrade, how to confirm ? – Check the counter – number of pages per second.
Need to be notified when disk space of servers fall under 25%. – From perfmon. Not Server Manager.
Need to alert the domain admin of any system event of the 4 domain controllers. Add each user of the domain admin to the list for each server. One choice says add the domain admin group to the PDC.
Want to backup user accounts and registry when server is running ? – NTBACKUP.
Netware clients in a network. A new NT server running SQL appl is added to the servver. How to allow the clients to access SQL ? Just install NWLink on the NT server.
Just created a partition on a new HDD. Want to format now. What need to be done first before u can format? Click Commit Changes Now.
Client with IPX/SPX cannot communicate with NT server. NT has Nwlink installed. What is the most likely reason ? Wrong frame type. The other choices – No access to resources, Workstation service on NT not running, …..another dubious one.
Exhibit – Want to replicate files to the other servers in the domain. Where to put the files ? – In a subdir under winnt\system32\repl\export
Confirm excess paging, what to do ? – Add RAM.
2 HDD. 1^st one has sys and boot partition and pagefile.sys. How to improve performance ? Shift the pagefile.sys to the 2^nd disk.
4 HDD Want FT want to maximise disk space for data usage. 2 choices have FT. Mirror and SWP. But question wants maximise disk space so it’s SWP.
Remote monitoring 5 servers using perfmon on your own NT wkstn. As a result your wkstn slows down dramatically. How ? Increase the sampling interval.
Want to monitor a few servers for a week, use LOG view.
To assign Home Dir , use User Manager for Domain and type in the UNC path.
To assign roaming user profile, user Manager for Domain and type in the UNC path.
Your boot sector infected. You cleansed it. Whoops…the boot sector is corrupted. Don’t fear, boot up the computer using the 3 installation disks, when prompted, press ‘R’ for repair. One of the options allow rebuilding of your boot sector.
Mirror failed. Got a new disk. Before u try to create a new mirror, what is the very 1^st thing u need to do ? Break the original mirror set.
1 HDD of a SWP failed. It does not contain the sys or boot partition. Got a new disk. What to do ? From Disk Admin, click on the SWP, click on the FREE SPACE from the new disk and choose REGENERATE from the FT menu.
Install NT from MSDOS station without CDROM. – Boot to DOS. Connect to network share and run winnt.exe from the shared folder.
Very long question – basically remote NT wkstns use NETBEUI 90% and TCP/IP 10%. How to improve performance. Bind the workstation service to use NETBEUI 1^st then TCP/IP.