Thanks for this great site! It really helped me to rehearse my Server exam, which I took today (30th October 1998) and got a score of 963/1000.
This means that I just got 2 questions wrong on this one. It's up to you to find out which ones, 'coz here are the questions (in abbreviated form, for the full questions I refer you to other Braindumps) and the answers I gave...
I got 1 question wrong in the Installation and Configuration part, and 1 in Managing Resources, so you should know where to look in this text for the 2 errors I made.
I would also like to stress that I think this whole MCSE business is a load of BS. The only way you're gonna get good at this NT stuff is by working with it in REAL life. But the "industry" wants a piece of paper, so we all spend a lot of useless hours studying all these non-existant situations. Let's face it, there are MCSE's out there that wouldn't know a DAT-drive from a TFT-screen...:-).
I don't agree with it, and that's why I gladly give all the answers I gave.
Hope it helps you pass this hurdle, and on to the real world off serious "fiddling about"...
1. The user template one, on how to use it.
The answer with the 'COPY' in it.
2. How do you make it so the logon scripts can be used everywhere one.
Use Directory Replication services.
3. File from NTFS to FAT one.
Long file names retained.
Permissions discarded.
4. How you make a BDC into a PDC one.
Got to Server Manager and promote the BDC to PDC (and that's all that's needed).
5. The one where you audit files and you have for wite: success & failure and for change: success.
The answer has "any attempt to change existing file" in it.
6. How to identify the OS and roles of computers in your domain...
Server manager.
7. What happens when you attempt to log on with a mandatory profile and the PDC is down...
NO LOG ON TO DOMAIN (believe me, this is correct).
8. How to share a CD-ROM from a Win95 with CAT (client administration tools) installed.
SERVER MANAGER (explorer wasn't even a possiblity, so this is certainly correct).
9. Copying files from NTFS to NTFS.
Inherits from the destination directory.
10. Get nobody but the Admins to log on to DC's.
Ensure that only Admins have the right to local logon.
11. The longish one where you have RAS and some NT WS's that need encryption, whilst others don't...
Configure RAS to require data encryption for specific modem ports, and configure the NT WS's to only dial into modems attached to these ports.
12. the one where dial-out is NetBEUI, TCP/IP and IPX/SPX and dial-in is only NetBEUI and TCP/IP...what can the clients access?
Apps that support Windows Sockets.
Apps that support Net BIOS.
The shared resources on the RAS Server.
13. How to minimize the time to resolve NetBIOS names for RAS clients.
Put a LMHOSTS file locally on the clients (NT WS's in this case)
14. RAS. You want to log into servers specified with their UNC or Hostnames via AutoDial...
Create a phonebook entry for each server.
15. The one with the Win95 clients wanting to access the resources after they've been migrated from a NW3.12 to an NT SRV (on which, obviously GSNW must be installed). What else must be done (i.e. map to the NetWare SRV)
I said use the Control Panel--GSNW icon and share it from there... (not entirely sure about this one)
16. What do you need on NT SRV to migrate NW?
GSNW. (NWlink comes with this)
17. You have 1 Win95 client, that wants to access printers and files on both an NT SRV and a NW3.12. What needs to be done on NT and client?
Install GSNW on NT, no additional software needed for Win95.
18. An NT SRV with NWlink on it. The user is at a NetWare client pc, what can he access?
Any client/server app. that supports NetBIOS.
19. Mirrored disk with ARC boot disk needed...
You'll just have to learn how ARC works, it's just too simple :-).
20. How to create a boot disk...
Format with NT, put the lah-de-dah files on it, and edit the boot.ini ARC (this one had ntbootdd.sys as a file to put on the disk too, put it's correct anyway).
21. NWlink on WS and SRV, but still no connection...
Wrong Frametype
22. You have a stripe set with 3 HDD's, one say "dada". How do you get the data back?
Restore lost data from tapedrive.
23. HP network interface laserjet printer (need I say more?).
DLC not installed on the SRV.
24. RAS SRV with 2 modems, dial-in gets disconnected immediately, how do you diagnose?
In the Registry: enable device logging.
25. How to back up the registry with NTBackup
Specify at least 1 file from the volume that contains the registry.
26. User can access a printer connected to the PDC, but can't access a directory on it. You (the Admin) put him/her in a group with all the rights, and the user still can't access this directory... What went wrong?
The user has to log out and log back in again for those changed group memberships to come into play.
27. The dependancy service failed (eeeeeeek!), where do you find more info?
Event Viewer.
28. No docs are printing due to lack of space on the system partition...
Change the properties on the SRV to specify new location for spool directory (not a 100% sure about this one, so I wrote the other options down too (Ain't I kind ?...hehehe)
change printer properties to specify new spool location
use Disk Admin to extend the system partition
use Explorer to drag spool directory to new partition
29. This one is about Directory Replication. You get a screen, and it says export: SRV, import: Domain1.
So, who gets these replicated directories?
The BDC's
The member SRV's
The NT WS's
(and NOT the Win95's)
30. You install a new NT SRV (another one...;-)) on the C drive. The SRV has 3 HDD's. Get me a Fault Tolerant method of protecting the system files!
Mirror the C to the second physical drive (Stripe set with parity not a possiblity with these files...)
31. You need to add another file to a boot disk if the SCSI isn't BIOS enabled...
Ntbootdd.sys
32. You have 1 PDC & 2 BDC's. In a flash of madness, you decide to make the PDC into an apps. SRV. How?
Promote a BDC and re-install the PDC as a member SRV.
33. The one with the dept. that regularly plays Doom (oops) I mean transfers 100MB of files on the network, thereby making everybody suffer from a slow network. How do you solve this?
You install a 2nd adapter, create a new PHYSICAL (not logical!) subnet, enable IP-forwarding and connect the guilty WS's to this subnet.
34. How do you install Win95 via Client Admin? (my brain was going "gaga" here, so I'm not sure that the answer I gave was correct)
Share Win95 files
Create Win95 network installation DISK (is it a set you need?, beats me, look it up!)
Boot from network installation startup disk (or the other choice here was of course from the SET...)
35. We have a NT3.51 and a 4.0 WS (who would have this kind of a setup?????) and a printer directly attached to the NT SRV. What about the drivers?
During printer installation, install drivers for all needed hardware platforms & versions of NT (this is correct, no matter that Bill wanted to get me confused with this hardware cr*p).
36. Half of you clients want 802.2, the other half 802.3 (very likely....NOT). What do you do on your SRV?
You need manual frame detection plus add the 802.2 and 802.3.
37. Upgrading NT3.51 to NT4.0...this questions says "choose all that apply", but I only found one that I'm sure of... (this could be one of the 2 questions I got wrong)
Start WinNT3.51 and then do winnt32.exe into the directory where your WinNT files are stored.
38. 4 disks of 250 MB, Stripe with parity, what's the usable part...
750MB
39. You have a network that you don't want routed to anything, and you manually assign IP-adresses (you're gonna use TCP/IP). What else has to be defined?
The Subnet mask
40. Your video adapter went "poof" when you tried it on a higher resolution. You install a new one to get high resolution. You boot the server, and there's the BOD (Blue screen Of Death). What now?
Restart the SRV and choose VGA mode.
Go to Control Panel--Display, and install the spanking new driver.
41. You have 10 WS's that you want to join to a domain. How do you do it?
Server Manager (as Admin of the domain obviously) and add the computer accounts.
Configure the WS's to join the domain (you need Admin userID and pw for this too) from the WS's.
42. You have no setup disks (who has?). Best way to get them?
On a DOS pc, run winnt.exe (another choice was from an NT pc... I am not 100% certain of this one).
43. You have a bad case of excessive paging. Where do you look in PerMon?
Pages/sec.
44. You want to monitor TCP/IP activity on 3 SRV's. What needs to be done?
Install SNMP service on the 3 to be monitored SRV's (and that's ALL you need to do).
45. 5 HDD SRV, how to improve the original paging file.
Distribute it equally among all PHYSICAL disks except the boot disk.
46. SRV has excessive paging. Do something about it!
Add more memory.
47. You're monitoring 10 SRV's from your WS, and it's getting sloooooooooooow. Best way to alleviate this problem?
Increase the time interval that you monitor. (IMHO you should just put another OS on it, but that wasn't an option :-)).
48. What happens if your paging file gets to be enormous?
Apps need longer to start.
Disk where the paging file is will get fragmented.
49. The one where you need to alert Admins of a 25% disk space alert.
Use PerMon (and not Server manager).
50. A veeeeery longwinded one about 2 NW SRV's with 30 MS-DOS and 20 Win3.1x clients that have NWlink installed. They are NetWare clients, what can they do on an NT SRV with NWlink?
Apps with NetBIOS support.
51. Minimum requirements for Stripe with parity:
1 Controller, 3 HDD's.
52. Minimum requirements for duplexing.
2 controllers and 2 HDD's.
53. A question about which can do FT in NT on software basis.
Disk mirrorring.
Stripe with parity.
54. You have an NT SRV as PDC, another NT SRV and some Win95's. SRV needs daily backup, the Win95's weekly. What are the minimum hardware requirements?
1 backup device on the NT SRV PDC only.
That's all I got noted down for this one.
One more piece of advice: Microsft is gonna try to put you off by strange wording and things like that. Take this exam as a game, and you'll spot the little tricks right away.
Remember the best preparation for an exam consists of 2 things:
1. be confident in your own abilities.
2. relax, stress has never augmented a score anywhere.
Have fun! ;-).