Subject: A braindump for you

Passed this exam with 823 on Jan 1998.

This website is a god send. Thanks to everyone who contributes.

I'll do the server exam in a week or two and produce a much better brain dump. For those taking the exam, take the advice given by previous braidump, take all possible test exams. MS ones, trancender, and pep exams.

For those contibuting give answers as well as questions if you know them, and a brief explantion of how you deduced the answer.

Here's a few questions I found a little tricky and my best answer.

Scenario question:

1) You have 4 2Gb drives, 32MB Ram and FAT partition.
You want faster access to files,
optional results: faster access to paging files and faster access to network.

Proposed solution: Have a boot partiton on one disk, format others with NTFS and create stripe set. Have paging file on stripe set, and configure bindings so the most used protocol is at top of list.

I answered : Solution meets required result and one optional.

The stripe set gives faster access to files.
Configuring bindings give quicker access to network.
But I don't think you can have pagefile on the stripe set. I'm pretty sure, if you can then the answer is you meet required and both optional. Could someone confirm this?

2) You have 200 PC with identical SW and HW how do you automate the build: Choose three

POLEDIT (something)

UNATTENDED.TXT

SETUP.INF

SYSDIFF.EXE

WINDIFF.EXE

UDF

windiff.exe and poledit are red herrings. You defintly need unattended.txt and sysdiff.exe. I not sure if the third is setup.inf or UDF. UDF is for specific machines, eg computer name and so on, surely these 200 machines can't all be standalone machines. The questions however does not say that they won't be different, so I chose setup.inf. Can anyone give a definitive answer on what this does. I know its a win 95 script, but were does it fit onto the exam questions.

3) You have NT on a single NTFS partition, and want to install dos. How do you do it, select one:

a) Rollback.exe

b) Convert

c) Sys.com and delete all NT files

d) Use Fdisk to remove partitons and install DOS

Answer (c) sounds good, but doesn't say install MS-DOS, so I choose (d) , this however would be wrong if there were and extended partitions

4) A user prints Invoices and has a paper jam , his application can not reprint the invoices, how does he do it?

a) Select Resume Printer

b) Select Restart Printer

c) Cancel doc and resume printer

d) Cancel doc and restart printer

Answer (b) as this will restart the job, rather than just carry on.

5) On domain there is a system policy and user profiles. There are conflicts between the two. Which takes precedence:

System Policy

6) A question about how to run a TSR ( Terminate and stay resident) program that needs to communicate with other MS-DOS apps to control COM port I/0 requests where do you run it.

If it needs to communicate with the other DOS applications it will need to run in the same shared memory address.

7) I had two very similar questions, and can't remeber the difference between the two, here it is:

You want to use performance monitor on network activity, which protocol or service do you install?

a) Streams Enviroment

b) SAP Agent

c) Network Monitior

d) NWLINK

e) PPTP

I went for network monitor as its the only one that made any sense to me. d & e are red herrings. I never heard of Stream and Sap agents, they never been covered in any books. I got 100% for Mointoring & Optimisation , so I think I was right

8) You want to upgrade from 3.51 to NT4.0, currently you have HPFS: Convert to NTFS and then upgrade, because NT4.0 no longer supports HPFS

9) You want to resolve UNIX host names to IP address on an intranet. Which TCP/IP option do you use?

a) Scope ID

b) default gateway

c) DNS Server address

d) BOOTP address

Answer (c) I think, could do with confirmation from someone.

10) Just remembered another one, three easy marks on a tough question. Its alreay been covered in one braindump.

YOu must install NT4 WS on 20 laptops and on 50 desktops

Required result:

Must automate install of NTWS on all computers.

Optional:

You want all computers to join the CORP domain

You want automate install of applications

Proposed solution:

Build one machine and copy everything including registry on to some server, and boot clients with network software off DOS boot disk. ( Not exact wording, but the proposed solution was plain mad)

Answer: Proposed solution does not accompish required or optional result.

11) The next question was the same, different proposed solution

Proposed solution:

• Create an two unattended.txt file for the 2 different HW configs and info for joining domain
• Create UDF for computer specific information
• Use windiff for installing applications

Answer: Required result met and one optional.

12) Next question the same, solution the same but instead of windiff, sysdiff is used for install application

Answer: Proposal meets required and optional results.

13) A question about mandatory profiles on PDC, PDC goes down, how does user log on.

Answer: If this is the first time he has ever logged on he will not be able to. However, if he has logged on before the answer is still he can not logon, in reality this is not true, see following from a user forum:

If the PDC holding the Mandatory User Profile is down when Joe logs can he logon or not? Well it appears he could but he's not supposed to be able to.

Here is Microsoft's response (article Q164133). The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When a user of a mandatory profile attempts to log on, but has insufficient access to read the mandatory user profile, the following message is displayed:

"You do not have permission to access your central profile located at \\server\share\username.MAN. The operating system is attempting to log you on with your local profile."

The system then proceeds to log the user on with a default profile. The ability to log on should not be allowed if the mandatory user profile is not accessible.

CAUSE

There is a problem in Userenv.dll that causes incorrect handling of Access Denied error conditions when accessing mandatory user profiles.

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, grant users of the mandatory profile appropriate access rights to it. Alternatively apply the related hotfix, which fixes this problem.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service Pack (service pack 3)

This should explain the confusion and why the correct answer is the user cannot log on (even though the bug allowed them to in previous versions)

GENERAL TIPS:

Novell: Don't be scared by it, learn CSNW and GSNW, the other services I wasn't asked about. CSNW client can access NW 4.0 server that runs in bindery emulation

RAS: Only three questions. Multilink and Callback dosen't work. The server will call back one number and this isn't an option on the answer. ISDN with 2 b-channels, One phone book entry with 4 numbers

Nothing on encryption , but it is on the server exam I've heard

Control Panel: Easy points to be scored here. Learn the ones given from previous braindumps

Permissions: Shares and NTFS permissions, most restricitve when coming in over the network.

That all and good luck.