NT 4.0 Server

I passed!!! And about time too…I had failed this exam twice previously..then I found this site:

I passed today with 94.5% woohoo. Thanks a heap people!

Ok…I made a file comprising of brain dumps from most of the previous entries b4 me and used them. I’ll add them here…but a lot of them are double ups and it’s a bit messy ..But you can print this page and cover most of the brain dumps of previous people b4 me.

I also came across another question:

Q. Some thing about Reseach Group making high network traffic:

A. Make another physical subnet and put Research group on it..allow IP forwarding on server (I think)

And here is the rest of the questions:

1) The infamous question whether a person will be able to log on when the sever storing the mandatory profiles is down.

A) the answer to this question is definitely the person will not be able to log on untill or unless a cached profile exists.

 2) 1. You have 4 Domain Controllers and want to Administrators receive alerts when a system errors occurs:

 4. In each Server put all names in Server Manager

 5)how do you manage printer permissions from a remote windows 95 client

 A) Answer to this was "Explorer" you can take my word for this or check it out in sybex test success book.

 6) how do you create a manage file permissions from remote windows 95 client with server tools.

 A) Answer to this is definitely "Explorer"

 7) Their was an exhibit with Network Configuration for RAS; We have to point in this screen the option to let the user choose their own method of authentication .

 A)The answer for is "any authentication including clear text".

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 9) You have a Hewlett Packard LaserJet printer on a UNIX box, which you wish to print to via your NT Server. What protocol do you install?

 A)TCP/IP, not DLC, since you're printing to the unix box, not a network printer

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 10) NT Server connected to UNIX, want to use HP Printer connected to UNIX machine, NT clients will be running  NWLink. What other protocols need to be running? Client are running only NWLink so you need that

 So if you remembered everything it is just TCP/IP & IPX

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 11) Netware users need to access an SQL database on an NT server, what must you do to set up this function.

 A.U Need only IPX\SPX compatible protocol installed on nt server

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12)How do you make an emergency repair disk?

 A) Rdisk

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 13)How can you minimize memory usage when there are less than 10 users connected?

 A) The answer to this is "server service".

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 14) You connect a new HP laserjet to a printer pool, but the HP port option does not show up in print manager, what  could be wrong?

 A) DLC is not installed

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 15)Which window do you use in performance manager to record and save data?

 A) Log view

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16) . RAS connection fails, where do you look.?

 A) answer for this is Device.log

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 17) I had to do with what type of encryption access would you allow on a RAS server if the dial in clients were running win95 and a third party PPP that used DES encryption? You want to ensue the highest level of security.

 A) answer to this definitely "Require Encryption " NOT MICROSFT ENCRYPTION .

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 18). Excessive paging on Server. What to monitor.

 A) Answer to this was "pages /sec" but watch out because they put this in words as" No. of pages per second"

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 There is 20 NTW in a workgroup called SALES, You want to add a NT Server as a PDC called SALES. What do you need to do

 Answer: Create a user account for each user on the PDC

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You want to install two printer in a POOL on the PDC. Witch off the following apply.

 Answer: Printers must use the same drivers.

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 You RAS clients complain that there RAS connection disconnect every time after they connected. What can you do to find the problem ?

 Answer: Enable Device logging in the registry to create a device.log file

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 How do you know that you need to upgrade your processor on you server ?

 Answer: In performance Monitor your PROCESSOR TIME is constantly over 80%

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You use PERFORMANCE MONITOR on you server but see that it bring down the performance of you server. What can you do ?

 Answer: Increase the time intervals

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 You as Administrator is working on a NTW and you want to be alerted when the disk space available on the NT Server is below 20%. How do you do this.

 Answer: Run PERFORMANCE MONITOR on NTW and add you counter threshold to the alert option.

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 There are two 2 GB HD with two separate partitions on each on the NT Server. The paging file is on the system drive. What can you do to boost the performance in connection with the paging file on the server.

 Answer: Move the paging file to another partition on the other HD

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 You have two 1 GB HD. The first HD contain you system and boot partitions and is formatted FAT. Your second  HD contain program files and is formatted with NTFS. What can you do to implement local file security on the first HD.

 Answer: User the command prompt CONVERT.EXE utility and convert the first HD to NTFS.

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Your pagefile has increased its volume. How will that affect? (choose 2)

a Applications will start more slowly

 c The disk will be fragmented

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13) You are administering a windows NT server computer from a winodws 95 client computer. You install server admin tools on the 95 computer. What must you use on the win 95 computer to do this ?

 b.server manager

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-You added a new video card and now cant boot; what to do ?

 Start your server with the new card in VGA-mode THEN Install the new driver in 'Display Properties'-

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 -What will allow Netware clients to use NETBIOS apps?

 NWLink ONLY !!!

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 -RAS configured with TCP/IP, NETBEUI, IPX/SPX, what can you access?

 Winsock apps, NETBIOS apps, Resources on RAS server

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 -You have a set of users using 3rd party PPP clients and a set of users that need secure access to a SQL database thru RAS; how do u configure RAS?

 2 ports, one to allow clear text the other to encrypt for SQL access on SQL

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 -Lori cannot access a share even tho u have given her perms for the share..what can fix this ?

 Have her log off and log back on

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 -U must add 50 new user accounts, how to do this easily?

 Create a User_template account, copy to new accounts

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 -Netware server1 uses 802.2 and Netware server2 uses 802.3 and cannot connect or communicate..whats wrong?

 You need to enable manual frame detection

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 -Print job stalls..what to do?

 Stop-Start spooler service

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 -What systems can import?

 ONLY NT systems(server or workstation)

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 Configure IP address in non-routed network, must aslo configure what?

 Subnet mask

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 -you have NT4.0 Nt 3.51 w95 need to install printers for all

 Install all 3 drivers for each os

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 -Move a file from an NTFS partition to FAT what will happen?

 LongFileNames will be preserved permissions lost

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How to back-up the registry?

 Select any file to be included that is a registry file (or something like that, you'll know what I mean when you see it- I did ;-)

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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 th

 All you need is the NWLink protocol on the server because the clients are accessing it for application services.

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 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

 A,B,C,E - DHCP can be used to assign all tcpip related information, but an FTP server is not one of the configurable options.

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 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?

 *User Manager for Domains is the tool you use, and all you need is the UNC path to the home directory.

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 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

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 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

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

 Disk

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

 Install SNMP on each of the servers to be monitored

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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?

 Lower the Performance Monitor update interval

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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 server so that NetBEUI is first and TCP/IP is last.

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

 CONVERT.EXE

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2. Server IPX, one IPX client can't connect

 incorrect frame type

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4. RAS clients getting disconnected...

 device.log in the registry

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 5. Lack of disk space for spool file

 on server, pick new location on a different drive

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 6. User with 95 client can't access printer, you assign perm's, they still can't access  *didn't log off and back on

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 7. Primary in mirror fails, what do you do to boot format disk in NT, copy 4 files, edit boot.ini (all in one choice)

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9. After you log in, you get a message that a dependency service failed...where do you look

 Event viewer

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12. NW net, 50 clients 802.2, 50 clients 802.3...you add an NT server

 manually detect frame type, list all frme types

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13. Upgrade 3.51 to 4.0 (pick 2)

 boot w/ 4.0 install disks, install to \windows directory

boot to 3.51, run winnt32.exe from prompt

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15. 3 disks, system on c:, want fault tolerance

 tricky!! can't do ss w/p because you need 3 after system...answer is mirror

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16. Exhibit: Directroy replication, which will import

 3 answers: BDC, member servers, NTW

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18. Want to demote PDC to app server, promote BDC to PDC

 reinstall NT on PDC, use Server manager to promote BDC

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 20. 10 clients move to Central domain

 Domain admin add machines to Server mgr, workstation admin log in and configure ?

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 23. Want to repair an install

 >From DOS machine, run winnt from CD

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 24. 95 install

 share files

create setup disk (not set) in Net Client Admin

boot from it (not them)

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27. want to share a cd drive on a server, you are running NTW w/ client tools

 Server Manager

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32. Exhibit: Auditing ...that long question about Corporate Archives,

 Any attempts to change an existing file in a subdirectory will be audited

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 33. What would you use to determine the roles and OS of servers and clients

 Server Manager

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 34. To make sure log on scripts are the same on all domain controllers....

 Directory Replicator Service

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 35. Exhibit: RAS Outbound(TCP/IP, IPX, NetBEUI), Inbound (TCP/IP, NetBEUI) What can a dial in client access

 not IPX stuff

Winsock

NetBIOS

shared resources on RAS server

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 36. 5 servers on 3 subnets..how can you speed up dial in

 LMHost files on clients

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37. NW clients, NT server running NWLink

 can access client/server apps

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 38. You need to remotely administer 3 servers with RAS ...how

 Set up phone book entries for each location

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 40. Migrate NW to NT...what do you need

 GSNW

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 41. Install GSNW...what is next

 C.P. GSNW icon, set up shares and assign permissions

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42. NT net gets new NW server...what to do

Install and configure GSNW, no change to clients

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43. Best back up strategy for 1 NTS, 10 Win95 clients, 5 NTW clients...want to back up server and it's registry nightly and clients weekly

1 tape drive on server

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44. NW net, new NTS to run client/server app

NWLink only

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50. For best performance, distribute paging file on all physical volumes except boot and system partitions

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52. You want to know if disk space gets below 25%

 Perf mon alert on % free space

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 54 You want to monitor TCP/IP from workstation

 Install SNMP on each server

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5. You have an Win NT Server that runs IPX, and you have a NetWare client. What will the client be able to access ?

 Client/server applications that support NetBIOS

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19. Your Windows95 client computers access shared resources on a Windows NT Server. The Windows95 computers have

Client for MS networks installed. You want to allow the Windows95 client computers to access files on a NetWare Server.

You install Gateway Service for Netware on the Windows NT Server.

 What else should you do on the Windows NT Server computer to allow the Windows95 client computers to access files on the NetWare server?

 From the GSNW option in the Control Panel, use the Gateway option to share the desired directories on the Netware Server.

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21. You have 30 MS-DOS machines, 20 WFWG machines, and 1 NT server machine You want the MS-DOS and WFWG machines to be able to connect to 2 NetWare Servers. What is required on the NT server?

 b NWLink

c. GSNW

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61. you want to backup the registry, while the Server still running, which program do you use?

 NT BACKUP

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67. Remote users want own level of password encryption, what should be the setting?

 Any Authentication including clear text.

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68. You are installing NT server and your non-scsi CD-ROM not detected, what should you do?

 Run installation again and select "S" to specify additional drive.

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3. Your Windows NT server has two network cards. Your network has 100 Windows NT workstations, and the entire network is running TCP/IP. How do you enable routing at the server between the two network cards?

 Manually assign different IP addresses to each network card