I use NT daily and have a box setup at home and I would recommend to anyone taking the NT 4 exams to expose yourself to the software and practice. You will learn a great deal. In addition, I used the SYBEX text and the Transcender test (absolute bargain in my opinion) to augment my study. The actual MS text looked quite a bit like the Transcender exams.

On to the exam:

Know the differences between local and global groups. There were a few questions pertaining to remote admin. of groups with member servers. For example, creating a global group and adding it to the local of a member server to allow for remote admin.

Many folks talked about RAS but I did not feel that it was that intense. Most was pretty basic. Now the various authentication methods -- PAP, MS-CHAP, CHAP. Know what selection to make with third party encryption tools. The only "tricky" question was one regarding a Windows Sockets API and configuring TCP/IP for SLIP.

For those not familiar with TCP/IP there were a few questions on DHCP and basic TCP/IP client configuration.

Know when to select Balance, Maximize Memory, Maximize Throughput for File Sharing, and Maximize for Apps.

NTFS permissions - remember that when you copy a file it inherit target folder's permissions - does not matter if it is on same partition or not. When you move a file within same partition you are simply changing the pointer so it retain original permissions.

Become quite familiar with configuring Printers. Printer pools and how they work. Know what function the spooler performs - when print jobs are sent to a printer that is set to operate during set hours and it is unavailable the job is saved in the spooler until the printing device comes online. Know how to redirect a printer.

Know what function the pagefile serves, where to locate for optimization, how to optimize, how you know when there is excessive paging on your server.

Performance Monitor - a few questions on setting up alerts and some of the indicators. Know how to enable the disk monitor which are disabled by default. Here was a question...You are monitoring 8 servers with five monitors for each server with alerts set to report on activity every 5 seconds, and many of your PC's functions are running rather slow. How do you improve you PCs performance. ANS: Set the alert for a greater interval like every 2 minutes.

Troubleshooting - Know some of the error messages the could occur. There was a question about what error message you receive when your boot.ini is corrupt or missing.

Good luck to all.