Subject:          MCSE 70-67 nt40 Brain Dump
Date sent:        Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:02:19 -0400

Passed 70-67 NT 40 Server exam yesterday. Having previously taken the 351 server exam, I did not think this test was that bad. I did not have any Macintosh questions, nor were there any questions on trusts, and very few questions on directory and file level permissions. As others have said, there were several (seemed like 5 questions) on netware related issues.

What surprised me was the number of performance monitor type questions. If you are taking the assessment exam (and you should) I scored 20 points higher on the assessment than I did on the actual exam. Normally, for me, there is a lower differential. There were only a few "specific NT40" type of questions, if you know NT351 and have worked with 40 you would be OK.

Make sure you read through the resource kit, look at the on line help, peruse technet, and by all means work with the client admin tools, and know disk administrator! One more suggestion: on the assessment exam, paste your section scores to paint, type the date and score, and then print it out. It will help you focus your studies.

What were some of the questions?

You have 40 clients who spend most of their time accessing LAN resources using netbeui. Only rarely do they use tcpip to connect to the WAN. How do you optimize?

a- move netbeui up on the server

b- move netbeui up on the clients

c- move tcpip up on the clients

d- move tcpip up on the server

e- binding order will not make any difference

choose ONE

What do you do if setup does not detect your ide cd rom?

How do you do an over the network install of NT server?

What do you check if you want to see if your server is experiencing excessive paging?

What you do if you want to monitor your TCPIP implementation for a week?

You have two drives. Your paging file is on your system partition on drive one. How can you improve performance?

You have a user who gets promoted to the managers group from sales. You assign him to the managers group, but he complains he can not access the managers shared directory. Why? There was a couple of exhibits on this one you could look at, but this one was obvious if you remember NO ACCESS overrides other permissions.

One question on how to manage printer security remotely?

Remember that you have to BREAK a mirror set, but you REGENERATE a stripe set with parity. I had both of these on mine.

Know what goes onto a boot up disk for various applications. Remember you only need NTBOOTDD.SYS if your scsi drive does not have the BIOS enabled.

I had one question about the ARC naming convention. They had an exhibit from disk administrator and you had to configure a fault tolerant boot disk to the second partition on the second drive. Remember partitions start numbering at 1.

Make sure you know how to create a roaming user profile.

I had one simple question that the edict "user goes into global group, and global group goes into local group, rights and permissions get assigned to local groups" solved easily. (you really need to learn this)

I also had several RAS questions: security (DES), connecting to Netware (GSNW), and one who wanted to run a windows sockets application (configure SLIP?)

Had a couple of questions (easy) about NT backup. Back up the registry by telling it to do so, get better performance by adding an extra back-up unit and splitting the load.

Good luck, and remember, the goal of the MCSE is to LEARN the product, not just to pass a test. The real test (all too often it seems) comes at 2:00 AM when the phone rings and the network is down!

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