Subject: NT Server 70-067

I just passed with an 872 and I'm on to the Enterprise exam. I used the

braindumps, Transcender and a book called NT 4.0 MCSE Study Guide by

Alan Carter which covers both the server exams as well as the

workstation one to prepare. All were helpful. I feel like I'm just

recapping what everyone else said, but here's what I remember about the

test:

The first 11 questions were all on performance monitor. I don't remember

all of them, but here's the ones I do remember.

How do you know if excessive paging is occurring?

What counter do you look at if you suspect the disk is a bottleneck

(Ave. disk queue length)

What happens to the page file counter if you add more RAM?

How do you send an alert--know the difference between regular and

administrative alerts and that an alert can't be sent to more than one

user outside a group. Also remember to set up the alert and/or

monitoring on your workstation if at all possible.

There were two ARC questions and one question that referenced boot.ini

(ie, What file do you need to modify to boot off your mirrored

partition?).

There were several questions about disk optimization, etc. Remember that

you only need 2 physical disks for mirroring, duplexing and striping w/o

parity, but 3 to stripe w/ parity. Also remeber that in a RAID, all the

disks are read from/written to simultaneously so you'll always get the

best performance that way.

There was a question about how you'd regenerate the set when a member

failed. This one was actually a give away since it was a stripe set with

parity and only one answer referenced the Fault Tolerance menu in Disk

Administrator.

There was a question about what to do if a disk in the mirror set fails.

(Replace the disk, break the mirror, establish new mirror).

What happens to a file if you move it from an NTFS partition to a FAT

partition? (You lose the permissions, but keep the long filename).

One question about copying from one NTFS folder to another on the same

NTFS partition. I think the answer is that the file will inherit the

permissions from the target folder, but look it up because I get that

one mixed up all the time.

One question on group permissions. A guy moves to a different department

that has full access to a folder, but he still can't access it. What do

you do? You take him out of the old group that has no access. This

question also has an exhibit.

A question about a user that you grant file permissions to, but still

can't access the file. Why? S/he hasn't logged off and back on yet.

How do you redirect print jobs sent to a failed printer? You add a local

port to the failed printer and type in the UNC path to a working printer

on the print server.

How do you set up a printer for off hours use? You create a new printer

and schedule it only to be available at night.

Users complain that they are intermittently dropped from RAS. How do

you troubleshoot? You enable the device.log file in the registry.

What else is automatically configured for you when you use WINs? Default

gateway, DNS server address and NetBIOS resolution type.

What else do you need to configure in TCP/IP properties in a non-routed

network? The subnet mask.

I believe there were two questions about profiles, but I only remember

one specifically. The one I remember asked what would happen if the

server that stored the mandatory profiles crashed? The users would

either get their locally cached profiles, or, failing that, they'd end

up with the workstation default profile. I vageuly remember a question

about roaming profiles, but don't quote me on that.

So-and-so wants to log on to the blahblahblah domain by default from now

on. How does s/he do it? S/he selects it from the list at logon and then

goes to network in ctrl pnl and enters the name of the desired domain.

You have 50 workstations, 10 servers, and you've created a new domain.

How do you add the workstations to your newly created domain? Use User

Mgr. for Domains to create accouts, Server Mgr. to add the workstations

and then go to each workstation and enter the domain name in network

thru ctrl panel.

LOTS of Netware questions. If you remember that you use GSNW in order to

enable NT clients to use a Netware resource and NWlink protocol to

enable Netware clients to use an NT resource, you'll come through

unscathed. Also remember that you need to create the NTGATEWAY group on

a Netware server and add the users that will access it to the group.

You're at a DOS workstation and want to install NT from the server. What

do you do? You connect to the network drive that has the files and run

winnt.exe.

One question that tests your knowledge of UGLY, but I don't remember the

specifics except that the question threw in way more information than

was useful so you'll have to seperate the wheat from the chaff. Just

remember that users go into global groups, global groups go in local

groups and then you assign the local group permissions. This is ALWAYS

the answer with these types of questions.

That's all I can remember. Good luck to everyone!!!!