Subject: NT 4.0 Core

1. You have two printers that you want to configure as a printer pool on an NT server. Which of the following is true of creating the printer pool?

• All print devices must be attached to the server.
• All print devices must use the DLC protocol.
• All print devices must be configured to use the same printer driver.
• All print devices must be attached to the same physical port.

2. Your users are complaining that their print jobs are not being printed. You determine that the printer has stalled while printing a document. How can you clear the printer of the stalled document?

• Pause the printer.
• Stop and start the Spooler service.
• Use Server Manager to clear the printer.
• Use User Manager to clear the printer.

3. You are installing an NT server from a machine running DOS. You have a non-SCSI CDROM, which NT is unable to detect. How can you install the NT server?

• Use the NT setup disks
• Use the NT setup disks, and at the command prompt select to install the unsupported CDROM
• Run WINNT /s
• Run WINNT32 /w

4. You have a network consisting of NT servers and NetWare servers. Your NetWare clients are using a Visual Basic application that access a SQL database on one of the NT servers. What else must you install on the NT server containing the database so that your NetWare clients can access it?

• Install Gateway Services for NetWare
• Install NWLink
• Install the Client Services for NetWare
• Install TCP/IP

5. You have a network consisting of NT servers and NetWare servers. You are installing a new NT server and want to allow your Microsoft clients to have occasional access to one of the NetWare Servers. What else must you install on the NT server?

• Install Gateway Services for NetWare
• Install NWLink
• Install the Client Services for NetWare
• Install TCP/IP

6. You have installed Gateway Services for NetWare so that your Microsoft clients can have access to resources on NetWare servers. What else must you do on the NetWare server so that users can access resources?

• Create a user account named NTGATEWAY and assign it appropriate permissions
• Install TCP/IP
• Create a group named NTGATEWAY and assign it appropriate permissions
• Create a NetWare accessible volume on the NT server

7. Watch for the typical incorrect frame type question when clients are unable to communicate with the Netware server.

8. Several users are trying to connect to a RAS server on your network, but they are getting disconnected as soon as they dial in. What step would you take to troubleshoot the problem?

• Modify the Registry to create a device.log file
• Use User Manager to monitor client connections
• Use Server Manager to monitor client connections
• Use the Remote Access Admin tool to monitor the ports on the RAS server.

9. You are on a Windows95 client with the client network administration tools installed. You want to manage file permissions from this Win95 client. Which tool do you use?

• User Manager for Domains
• Server Manager
• Windows Explorer
• The Network option in Control Panel

10. You are on a Windows95 client with the client network administration tools installed. You want to manage printers connected to remote NT servers from this Win95 client. Which tool do you use?

• User Manager for Domains
• Server Manager
• Windows Explorer
• The Network option in Control Panel

11/1. You have several files located in a directory on an NTFS partition. The Everyone group has Read permission to the files. You copy the files to a new directory on a FAT partition. What happens to the permission on the files?

• The permissions are inherited from the new directory
• The permissions remain the same
• The permissions are lost
• The permissions must be reassigned after being copied to the FAT partition

11/2. You move a file from one directory to another on the same NTFS partition. What happens to the permissions on the file?

• The permissions are inherited from the new directory
• The permissions remain the same
• The permissions are lost
• The permissions must be reassigned after being copied to the FAT partition

12. You move a file from a directory on one NTFS partition to another directory on a different NTFS partition. What happens to the permissions on the file?

• The permissions are inherited from the new directory
• The permissions remain the same
• The permissions are lost
• The permissions must be reassigned after being copied to the FAT partition

13. You are installing TCP/IP on two computers located on the same subnet. You assign each computer a unique IP address. What additional information must you supply?

• Default gateway
• Subnet mask
• Wins server
• DHCP server

14. You are installing a DHCP server. What TCP/IP related components can you specify for your clients? (select all that apply)

• Default gateway
• WINS server
• DNS server
• FTP server
• Subnet mask

15. Bob is a user on your NT network, and he wants a home directory so he can store some files. How do you give Bob a home directory?

• Use User Manager for Domains and specify a UNC path to the home directory for Bob's account
• Use Server Manager and specify a UNC path to the home directory for Bob's account
• Use User Manager for Domains and specify the domain name, server name, and share name for Bob's home directory.
• Use the Network option in Control Panel

16. You have two disk drives and two disk controllers. You want to implement fault tolerance so that if any disk component fails, users will not be affected. Which fault tolerance feature should you implement?

• Disk Striping
• Disk Striping with parity
• Disk Duplexing
• Disk bogus answer

17. You have 6 SCSI drives configured as a stripe set with parity. One of the drives fails, and you replace it. What must you do to recover the failed drive?

• Using Disk Administrator, select the new drive and choose Regenerate from the Fault Tolerance menu
• Using Disk Administrator, create a new partition on the new drive and then choose Regenerate from the Fault Tolerance menu
• Do nothing. The new driver will automatically be recovered
• Use Server Manager to regenerate the new drive

There were several questions involving duplexing, mirroring, and striping, and how to recover from a failure in one of these systems. If you know the chart we filled out comparing and contrasting mirroring vs. striping with parity, you'll do fine.

The tricks I saw on these questions involved having two hard disk and implementing striping with parity (you must have three disks for this), answers involving striping when fault tolerance was involved (striping without parity does not offer fault tolerance), and using the wrong tool when implementing striping/mirroring/duplexing (the tool is Disk Administrator, not User Manager or Server Manager, etc.) Also, when you recover a mirror or stripe set, you select free space, not create a new partition, and for a mirror set, you must break the original mirror before recovery.

Know the arc naming convention in the BOOT.INI for both SCSI and non-SCSI drives, and know that if you have a SCSI device without the BIOS enabled, you must have NTBOOTDD.SYS on your boot disk.

Question: You have a client computer that is dialing in to your RAS server. The client computer is only capable of DES security encryption. Which option should you select when configuring the RAS server network configuration? (Look at the screen shot on pg. 354 of the Core Technologies material)

• In the Encryption settings, select Require encrypted authentication
• In the Encryption settings, select Require Microsoft encrypted authentication
• In the Encryption settings, select Allow any authentication including clear text
• Disable the DES security on the client computer

Question: You are installing a RAS server and want your clients to determine their own security encryption. Which option should you select when configuring the RAS server? (Look at the screen shot on pg. 354 of the Core Technologies material)

• In the Encryption settings, select Require encrypted authentication
• In the Encryption settings, select Require Microsoft encrypted authentication
• In the Encryption settings, select Allow any authentication including clear text
• Disable the DES security on the client computer

There were a few more RAS questions involving protocols that I cannot remember, although it's covered on the Transcender exams. Another RAS questions I saw involved knowing which protocols support Windows sockets (TCP/IP and NWLink) - the answer to my question involved NWLink.

Question: You have a customer database located on an NTFS partition. The Accounting group has No Access permission to the database. The Managers group has Full Control permission. Maria is a member of the Accounting group, but she just got promoted to a manager. You add Maria's account to the Managers group, but she complains that she is still unable to access the database. What do you do?

• Remove Maria's account from the Accounting group
• Instruct Maria to log off and back on
• Delete the Managers group and recreate it
• Assign Full Control permission directly to Maria's account

Question: Your NT server's performance has been declining. You determine that excessive paging is the problem. What can you do to increase performance?

• Increase the size of the page file
• Decrease the size of the page file
• Add more memory
• Use the System option in Control Panel

Question: Which NT Performance Monitor counter would you monitor to determine if excessive paging is the cause of decreased performance?

• Memory
• Disk
• Processor
• UDP

Question: You want to monitor TCP/IP on several servers in your domain from an NT Workstation computer. What must you do?

• Install SNMP on the NT Workstation computer
• Install SNMP on each of the servers to be monitored
• Install the client-based administration tools on the NT Workstation
• Another bogus answer

Question: You are using performance monitor to monitor several NT servers, and you notice that performance on your workstation has been declining. You want to increase performance of your other applications while you monitor the servers. What must you do?

• Use the System option in Control Panel to decrease the priority of the foreground applications
• Use the System option in Control Panel to increase the priority of the foreground applications
• Use the START command to start Performance Monitor at a higher priority
• Lower the Performance Monitor update interval

Question: Your company has a central office and several remote locations connected by IP routers. Your clients, who are running NT Workstation, access local resources 90% of the time and remote resources 10% of the time. The clients use NetBEUI to access local resources and TCP/IP to access the remote resources. How can you optimize performance so that the clients can access all resources as fast as possible?

• Configure the bindings for the Workstation service on all of the servers so that NetBEUI is first and TCP/IP is last.
• Configure the bindings for the Workstation service on all of the clients so that NetBEUI is first and TCP/IP is last.
• Configure the bindings for the Server service on all of the servers so that NetBEUI is first and TCP/IP is last.
• Configure the bindings for the Workstation service on all of the servers so that TCP/IP is first and NetBEUI is last.

Question: You want to convert a FAT partition to NTFS. What utility do you use?

• Disk Administrator
• Server Manager
• CONVERT.EXE
• User Manager

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