BRAINDUMPS NO. 1 NTSRV 4.0

ARC path syntax

· multi is the adapter's ordinal number. For example if there are two SCSI adapters in the system, the first to load and initialize is assigned 0 and the next is assigned 1, and so on for all of the adapters in the machine. Remember, the HBA BIOS must be turned on to use multi syntax.

· SCSI was used in the 3.1 versions of NT before NTLDR was enabled to scan for the HBA’s BIOS. The syntax and ordinals are the same as they are for multi, but the SCSI driver must be copied to the root of the boot drive (or root of floppy if booting from the FT floppy) and renamed to NTBOOTDD.SYS.

· disk: for SCSI syntax this is the SCSI ID of the disk; for multi it is always 0.

· rdisk: for SCSI syntax this is always 0; for multi it is the ordinal of the disk—that is, the order in which the disk appears in Disk Administrator (disk 0, disk 1 , . . . ..).

· partition: the partition where NT is installed. Partition numbers begin with 1, not 0.

* ENSRE PAGEFILE.SYS IS NOT ON A STRIPE SET WITH PARITY

On Intel-based systems, you also need to make a recovery diskette. This is simply a formatted diskette onto which you have copied the key system files that may need to be restored in order for NT to boot (note that you will need to clear the system/hidden/readonly attributes to copy these files):

· NTLDR

· NTDETECT.COM

· NTBOOTDD.SYS (On systems with older SCSI drives—if the file doesn’t exist, you don’t need it.)

· BOOT.INI

· BOOTSECT.DOS (If you have a dual-boot Setup)

 

 

On RISC-based systems, the needed files are OSLOADER.EXE and HAL.DLL. Use the ARCS menu to create an additional boot option with the following values:

· OSLOADER= SCSI(0)DISK(0)FDISK(0)\OSLOADER.EXE

· SYSTEMPARTITION=SCSI(0)DISK(0)FDISK(0 or 1, depending on whether you want to boot from the first or second floppy drive)

· OSLOADPARTITION and OSLOADFILENAME to the same values they’re set for in your regular boot menu

Use an NT box running Performance Monitor to collect stats from 10 servers. Want to increase responsiveness of foreground apps on this NTW. A: Increase PM Time Interval.

How would you use PM to collect info on Server usage over 1 week? A: Create a log file.

RAS Connections are disconnecting immediately – how to diagnose? A: Alter registry to create a log file.

2 controllers, 2 disks – which method gives the greatest fault tolerance?

A: Hardware Mirror via Hardware Duplex.

Installed Client Tools for W95 – what do you use from the W95 PC to configure File Security and Printer Security?

A: Windows Explorer (Windows Explorer gets an additional property when you install Client Tools for W95).

TCP Printer, which 2 items do you need to configure it? A: IP Address and Printer Name.

User password altered by Domain Administrator and at next logon user told password has expired. Why? A: Change password at next logon is default on User Manager for Domains when password is changed.

How can you set up a home directory for a user on a BDC? A: You can use a UNC name.

Unauthorised user somewhere on network so you decide to audit logons and find every user account has 100+ logon attrempts within one minute. What do you do? A: Account Lockout

Network with 1 PDC, 4 member servers. Need to freate a BDC. A: reinstall NT on a member server.

How do you configure a modem for applications? Use control panel modems

How do you configure a tape drive for applications? Use control panel tape devices

How do you backup NT registry without closing server – A: NT Backup

What file do you need to boot with a SCSI disk no BIOS? A:ntbootdd.sys.

You boot NT, select MSDOS, get "Non System Disk", what could be wrong? List of solutions of which two could be correct? A: boot.ini is damaged or bootsect.dos is damaged. I went for bootsect.dos.

You install a new network card and manufacturers driver.Boot, Blue screen of Death, what do you do?

. A: Last Known Good.

You want to print a document on a different NT workstation without installing drivers on your PC. A: Drag document to printer using Explorer.

A document stalls in your spooler, how do you recover A: Stop/start the spooler service.

You’re printing invoices from an application that doesn’t have a reprint option and the printer jams

. A: Do a document restart from the spooler app.

Several DOS programs require a TSR. How do you load it? A: Alter autoexec.nt for each of these DOS apps.

Need to run 3 16 bit Win apps in same memory space. 1 keeps crashing. What do you configure to allow the three apps to run together but not affect other 16 bit apps

A: Run all other 16 bit apps in separate memory leaving these 3 apps in the shared memory.

Which clients can be Import comps? Any NT comp (pdc, bdc & wkstations, but not 95)

Frame type problem – select "Manual" when have >1 type on the ntwk & give both types

Netbios & SQL apps only need nwlink

PDC fails – can users get their Mandatory Profiles? No – these are saved only on the PDC (roaming profiles are cached locally, but man are not)

Converting Fat to NTFS – What happens? (lose permissions, but LFN’s are OK)

Alerter Service – Which to choose -Perf Monitor or Server Mnger (just remember that Alerts sent thru Perf Mon are based on exceeding set threshold values whereas alerts from Server Mnger are general ie. power loss)

BU – what have to do to BU registry (select 1 other file, do it locally)

Device.log – enable thru the registry

Moving& copying – only time they retain permissions is when moved within same volume

You need to make new Nt setup disks, How? Run winnt.exe with /o or /ox switch

Read carefully: they had really wordy questions on stripe sets with parity & stripe sets without parity – and seemed to use the phrases interchangeably. Watch if the question is looking for the amount of data that can fit on the disk or the total amount of disk space (ie. the parity bit takes up 1/n of the total disk space)

Know that RAS log is used for troubleshooting RAS errors. This is enabled by editing the registry. This question will have been tested in the NT Workstation exam.

Know what utility to use in monitoring RAS. Example, Mary is trying to establish connection to RAS but the connection keeps dropping. What utility do you use to monitor this connection. - A: dial –up network monitor

 

 

 

 

Striping with Parity - This is the best Fault tolerance. Need at least three disk drives. Non of the partition must have boot or systems files. Use the same disk space from each disk. If one of the drives fail, get a new drive that is atleast equal to other stripe sets and from Disk administrator, do this (this is the tricky part that is tested)

1)Select the strip set that is working
2)Select the new drive

3)Click on Generate from Fault Tolerance Menu.

Report views present values in column while chart view displays information in real time or from a log.

NWLink is a protocol that is used to communicate with Netware. It can be used at client and NT Server. Gateware services is a gate to Netware. When installed, it configures NWLink by Default. You can not use NWLink to access files on Netware from NT Server. You must install Gateway Services for NetWare.

Q. You have a DHCP Server and a client that dial in through a RAS Server. What else can be assignated to the client beside the IP?

A. Default Gateway, WINS address, DNS address, subnet mask

If a user's mandatory profile is unavailable during logon, the user will not be able to log on to the system." Important is that also a mandatory profile is cached locally by the workstation. But

in this question the user logs in to THIS workstation the first time, so no cached profile can be available.

The right answer should be user cannot log on

question on how to upgrade NT 3.51 to NT 4.0 and keep existing groups, profiles and settings.

This was a select all that apply. A:The answer was Install NT 4.0 with 3 setup disks and install to same NT

directory as 3.51 OR boot to NT 3.51 and run the winnt32.exe.

Minimum requirements for disk duplexing A: 2 disk controllers 2 hard disks

Minimum requirements for striping w/ parity (raid 5) A:1 disk controller 3 hard disks

Minimum NT server requirements for a Netware client to access a Netbios compatable Client Server application on the NT Server.

A. NWLINK compatable protocol

Question stating that you have a group of users who need to copy 100mb of files to an NT server and then network slows down what should you do?

Answer: Install second NIC and enable IP routing (careful question has alot of irrelevant info.)

Name Resolution for RAS Servers and Clients

In addition to requiring an IP address, RAS servers and clients on a TCP/IP network might require a mechanism to map computer names to IP addresses. Four name resolution options are available on a Windows NT network: Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), broadcast name resolution, Domain Name System (DNS), and the HOSTS and LMHOSTS files.

RAS servers can use all these name resolution methods for operations performed on the server.

RAS clients are assigned the same WINS and DNS servers that are assigned to the RAS server. You must use the Registry to override this automatic assignment. For more information about overriding the automatic assignment of WINS and DNS servers, see Appendix A, "RAS Registry Values."

RAS clients in small networks where IP addresses do not change can use a HOSTS or LMHOSTS file for name resolution. By using these files on the local drive, you do not need to transmit name resolution requests to a WINS server and wait for the response over the modem.

Assigning IP Addresses to RAS Clients

In Windows NT, each remote computer connecting to a RAS server through PPP on a Microsoft TCP/IP network is automatically provided an IP address from a static range assigned to the RAS server by the administrator during setup.

Windows NT RAS clients can also use a preassigned IP address specified in their phonebook. In this case, the Windows NT RAS server must be configured to permit users to request a specific address.

For automatically generated IPX network numbers, the Windows NT RAS server uses the NetWare Router Information Protocol (RIP) to determine an IPX network number that is not in use in the IPX network. The RAS server assigns that number to the remote client.

NetBEUI and RAS

NetBEUI is suited for use in small workgroups or LANs. A NetBIOS gateway and the NetBEUI client protocol are installed by default on all Windows NT RAS servers and on most Windows networking clients. Previous versions of Windows NT RAS clients, LAN Manager RAS clients, MS-DOS RAS clients, and Windows for Workgroups RAS clients require NetBEUI.

The RAS server then authenticates the remote user using the PPP authentication protocols (PAP, CHAP, SPAP). The protocols invoked depend on the security configurations of the remote client and server.

Once authenticated, the Network Control Protocols (NCPs) enable and configure the server for the LAN protocol used on the remote client.

When the PPP connection sequence has completed successfully, the remote client and RAS server can begin to transfer data using any supported protocol, such as Windows Sockets, RPC, or NetBIOS. The following figure illustrates the location of the PPP protocol on the OSI model.

Authentication Protocols

RAS uses the Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) to negotiate the most secure form of encrypted authentication supported by both server and client. CHAP uses a challenge-response mechanism with one-way encryption on the response. CHAP allows the RAS server to negotiate downward from the most-secure to the least-secure encryption mechanism, and it protects passwords transmitted in the process.

Table 7.1 Security Levels and RAS Encryption Protocols

 

 

Level of security Type of encryption RAS encryption protocol

High One-way CHAP, MD5

Medium Two-way SPAP

Low Clear-text PAP

CHAP allows different types of encryption algorithms to be used. Specifically, RAS uses DES and RSA Security Inc.’s MD5. Microsoft RAS uses DES encryption when both the client and the server are using RAS. DES encryption— the U.S. government standard—was designed to protect against password discovery and playback. Windows NT 3.5 or later, Windows for Workgroups, and Windows 95 always negotiate DES-encrypted authentication when communicating with each other. When connecting to third-party remote access servers or client software, RAS can negotiate SPAP or clear-text authentication if the third party product does not support encrypted authentication.

 

Windows NT RAS supports both the Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) and

the Challenge-Handshake Authentication protocol (CHAP).

 

PAP uses clear text (unencrypted) password authentication. It is supported

by the Windows NT RAS server for interoperability with 3rd party PPP

clients. NetManage Chameleon and Trumpet Winsock are 3rd Party PPP clients that use PAP.

 

CHAP requires a challenge response with encryption on the response. Windows NT RAS server supports the following encryption algorithms in conjunction with CHAP authentication:

RSA MD4 (or MS-CHAP)

MS-CHAP is Microsoft's version of the RSA MD4 standard. This is the most

secure encryption algorithm supported by Windows NT. MS-CHAP correspondsto the "Require Microsoft encrypted authentication" encryption setting for the RAS server. Both Windows NT and Windows 95 RAS clients will negotiate a PPP connection to a Windows NT RAS server using MS-CHAP as the encryption algorithm.

 

 

DES is the encryption algorithm used by down-level Microsoft RAS clients such as Windows for Workgroups 3.11 RAS and RAS 1.1a. DES is supported by Windows NT for backward compatibility with down-level RAS clients.

SPAP is Shiva's Password Authentication Protocol. Windows NT RAS server supports SPAP to allow dialin by Shiva clients. Unlike PAP, SPAP does send encrypted passwords over the wire as opposed to clear-text

passwords.

Encryption on Windows NT RAS Server

 

- When you enable the "Require Microsoft encrypted authentication"

selection, you can optionally enable "Require data encryption". This

option uses the RC4 algorithm to encrypt data sent over the RAS session.

- The "Require encrypted authentication" encryption setting authenticates clients that request the MS-CHAP, DES, or SPAP authentication methods.

- The "Allow any authentication including clear text" encryption setting authenticates clients using any of the authentication methods requested by the client.

 

 

Encryption on the Windows NT RAS Client

The Widows NT RAS client supports all authentication standards supported by the Windows NT RAS server except SPAP. Additionally, the Windows NT RAS client supports the RSA MD5-CHAP encryption standard.

 

 

By supporting RSA MD5, Windows NT PPP clients are able to connect to almost all 3rd Party PPP Servers. The Windows NT RAS server does not support RSA MD5 because this method requires a clear-text password at the server.

 

- The "Accept any authentication including clear text" option permits the

client to use any of the supported client authentication methods

requested by the server.

 

- The "Use clear text Terminal login only" option indicates the remote

server uses a UNIX-style text mode login. When this option is selected, the client receives a Terminal window where login occurs. PAP is used as the authentication method if this option is enabled.

 

- The "Require encrypted authentication" option is similar to the

corresponding option for the Windows NT RAS server. For the RAS client, however, RSA MD5 may be used, but SPAP may not.

 

- The "Accept only Microsoft encrypted authentication" option is also

similar to the corresponding option for the Windows NT RAS server. This option permits the client to use only MS-CHAP.

 

 

you have MS Client and Non-MS Clients dialing in to RAS server and need encryption for both. how do you accomplish.

A:Setup one modem port with MS-CHAP and have MS clients dialin there and setup another port with CHAP and have third party clients dialin there.

12. Question asking how to make system partition redundant

A. Disk Striping with no parity

B. Disk Striping with parity

C. Disk Duplexing

D. Disk Mirroring

answers: C&D; cannot do raid 5 on system partition and raid 0 (striping

without parity) provides no redundancy.

Had a question about upgrading a previous version of NT to NT 4.0 . Would the registry edits, custom colors, user accounts, groups, network adapter settings etc.. transfer into NT 4.0 during the installation.

The answer was that yes but you must install into the same "windows directory" of the previous version.

How do you promote a server that is a bdc to a pdc from a remote NT

w/s?promote the bdc to a pdc in Server Manager, the original pdc will automatically demote itself to a bdc.

There were questions about NTBACKUP.

* know you cannot backup the registry remotely.

* know you should have a tape backup on each PDC and BDC to accomplish the reg backup.

* know the difference between differiential and incremental (it comes up in a question)

· An incremental backup backs up only those files created or changed since the last normal or incremental backup. It marks files as having been backed up. If you use a combination of normal and incremental backups, restoring requires starting with your last normal backup and then working through all the incremental tapes.

· A differential backup copies those files created or changed since the last normal (or incremental) backup. It does not mark files as having been backed up. If you are doing normal and differential backups, restoring requires only the last normal and last differential backup tape.

 

how many controllers and drives are needed, minium, for a stripe set with parity.

one controller, three drives.

* know the boot files are on the system partician.

* know the systems files are on the boot partician

* had another novell question about frame types. Can nt use auto-detect?

no. (must specify the frame type).

note: know that the default frame type that is detectable by NT is ethernet_802.2

* a company has multiple subnets. One department copies a billion byte file and hogs the network. What should be done. there were many answers. I chose:

install another network card, and turn on ip forwarding, put workstations that copy large files onto that subnet.

a user needs to look at many options on the perfmon.

A: use report view.

You have 4 2Gb drives, 32MB Ram and FAT partition. You want faster access to files, optional results: faster access to paging files and faster access to network. Proposed solution, Have a boot partiton on one disk, format others with NTFS and create stripe set. Have paging file on stripe set, and configure bindings so the most used protocol is at top of list.

I answered : Solution meets required result and one optional.

The stripe set gives faster access to files.

Configuring bindings give quicker access to network.

Can’t have page file on stripe set

2) You have 200 PC with identical SW and HW how do you automate the build: Choose three POLEDIT

UNATTENDED.TXT SETUP.INF SYSDIFF.EXE WINDIFF.EXE UDF

windiff.exe and poledit are red herrings. You definately need unattended.txt and sysdiff.exe.

3) You have NT on a single NTFS partition, and want to install dos. How do you do it, select one:

c) Sys.com and delete all NT files

4) A user prints Invoices and has a paper jam , his application can not reprint the invoices, how does he do it

a) Select Resume Printer

b) Select Restart Printer

c) Cancel doc and resume printer

d) Cancel doc and restart printer

Answer (b) as this will restart the job , rather than just carry on.

5) On domain there is a system policy and user profiles. There are

conflicts between the two. Which takes precedence: System Policy

6) A question about how to run a TSR ( Terminate and stay resident) program that needs to communicate with other MS-DOS apps to control COM port I/0 requests where do you run it. If it needs to communicate with the other DOS applications it will need to run in the same shared memory address.

8) You want to upgrade from 3.51 to NT4.0, currently you have HPFS:

Convert to NTFS and then upgrade, because NT4.0 no longer supports HPFS

9) You want to resolve UNIX host names to IP address on an intranet. Which TCP/IP option do you use:

a) Scope ID

b) default gateway

c) DNS Server address

d) BOOTP address

Answer (c) I think, could do with confiramtion from someone.

Microsoft TCP/IP provides a DNS client for resolving Internet or UNIX system names. Windows networking provides dynamic name resolution for NetBIOS computer names using WINS servers and NetBIOS over TCP/IP, as described in the previous section.

REGEDIT.EXE

REGEDIT.EXE is a Windows NT supplied utility for working with the registry. REGEDIT.EXE is very similar to the one provided with Windows® 95. If you are familiar with the Import and Export features used often in Windows 95, the same functionality is provided with Windows NT. See Chapter 5, "Customizing Windows NT" for examples of how to use REGEDIT.EXE with Windows NT.

REGEDT32.EXE

REGEDT32.EXE is a Windows NT supplied utility for working with the registry hives. REGEDT32.EXE provides features that REGEDIT.EXE does not. REGEDT32.EXE is used to modify the stock registry hive supplied with the Windows NT 4.0 operating system prior to installation of Windows NT. See Chapter 5, "Customizing Windows NT" for examples of how to use REGEDT32.EXE.

Windows NT Setup: WINNT.EXE and WINNT32.EXE

Windows NT includes both a 16-bit and a 32-bit version of setup. Both provide the same basic functionality but the 32-bit version, WINNT32.EXE, will only run on Windows NT and can be used to upgrade an existing installation of Windows NT.

What level of Raid can be used on the Boot/System Partition of NTFS : 1 (mirror)

Your network uses NWLink IPX/SPX Compatible Transport protocol. Half of the client computers use 802.3, the other half use 802.2 frame type. You are adding a Windows NT server computer to the network. This server has one network adapter. What must you do on the new server?A: On Windows NT Server, the NWLink dialog box allows administrators toconfigure NWLink to use multiple frame types

 

You have x DOS users and X win95 users who will RAS in. The DOS client supports DES encryption. How can you set the RAS server for maximum authentication security?(Single Answer) A. Require encrypted authentication. (supports DES, MS-CHAP and SPAP – shiva)

A BDC can be promoted to become the primary domain controller. When a BDC is promoted, an up-to-date copy of the domain’s security database is replicated from the old PDC to the new one, and then the old PDC is demoted to a BDC.

 

Server Manager - Manage shared folders and printers on computers running NT.

Use Server Manager to share folders, set permissions on shared folders, view who is using shared resources, and disconnect users from shared resources. 

Sharing

For the computer you are logged on to -use NT Explorer

If the computer you are logged on to is a domain controller - NT Explorer

If you are logged on to a domain controller account remotely - Server Manager

To change permissions on a share - local or remote - Server Manager

To stop sharing - NT Explorer or Server Manager

To connect to shares - Network Neighborhood (Explorer)

NT Network Client Administration tools:

. File Security tab added to NT Explorer - establish file and folder

permissions.

. Print Security tab added to NT Explorer - Establish print permissions.

. Server Manager - Manage shared folders on computers running NT.

Q. How can you share printers on a NT Box from a 95 client?

A: Admin Tools- server manager

Q. How can you share a CD from the same situation.

A. Server Manager.

 

Q.When you add an external SCSI Tape Device, what must you do?

  1. I choose Install a driver for the SCSI controller. Install a driver for the tape device. Reboot the server.

Q. Which counter you must to pay attention when the server is excessive paging?

A. Object: Memory Counter: Pages/sec

Q. What do you need to do to make a NT Server network installation?

A. Use STARTUP DISK created with Network Client Administrator. Connect to the share resourece

Q.When the disk that contains your system and boot partitions fails and this disk is part of a mirroring array, the first thing you have to do is...

A. Break the mirror.

Two networking Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are supported to allow Netware communication:

· Windows Sockets—This interface supports existing NetWare applications written to comply with the NetWare IPX/SPX Sockets interface.

· NetBIOS—This interface supports sending and receiving Novell NetBIOS packets between a NetWare workstation running Novell NetBIOS and a Windows NT computer running NWLink NetBIOS.

 

 

NWLink also provides NetWare clients access to Windows NT Server applications such as Microsoft SQL Server™ and SNA Server.

Windows NT Server computers running NWLink can support client applications for MS-DOS, OS/2®, Windows, or Windows NT computers through a variety of communications mechanisms, such as Windows Sockets, Remote Procedure Calls (RPC), or Novell NetBIOS, over the IPX/SPX transport.

Potential NWLink Gotchas

There are a couple of common problems associated with NWLink. The first is that some people think that by installing NWLink, they can access file and print resources on a NetWare server. NWLink is only a transport protocol, not a redirector. To access file and print resources, the computer will need client redirector, such as CSNW or GSNW.

The second problem is that with the default setting of Autodetect Frame Type, the frame type is set to that of the first frame received, and not configured to communicate over all detected frame types. You may need to manually configure the appropriate frame types for your installation.

Migrating from NetWare to Windows NT

The Windows NT Server Migration Tool for NetWare (NWConv) allows you to migrate NetWare servers to computers running Windows NT Server. The Migration Tool transfers user and group accounts, and directories and files from NetWare servers to Windows NT Server domain controllers. Account information can optionally be copied to a separate domain controller.

The Migration Tool allows you to:

· Preserve appropriate user account information

· Control how user and group names are transferred

· Set passwords for transferred accounts

· Control how account restrictions and administrative rights are transferred

· Select the directories and files to transfer

· Select a destination for transferred directories and files

· Preserve effect rights on directories and files

What Will Not Be Migrated

The Migration Tool will not migrate the following NetWare information.

· Login scripts — Windows NT logon scripts provide similar functionality.

· Print server and queue information — Printers can be set up as either Windows NT printers, or, with GSNW and NWLink in use as a Gateway, clients from both NetWare and Windows-based networks can use the NetWare printers.

· User-defined objects — These Bindery database objects have no Windows NT Server equivalent.

· Workgroup and user account managers — There is no equivalent group in Windows NT Server. The User Account Managers is just a concept, not a real group in the binderies.

· Passwords — Windows NT Server does not have the ability to read NetWare passwords.

Q.You are going to migrate a Netware server to NT 4.0. What do you need to install before perform this migration?

A. Gateway Services for Netware in the NT Server. (GSFN)

Q. One NT server, 100 Windows 95, protocol IPX/SPX. Neither clients can communicate with the server, Why?

A. Wrong Frame type.

Q. You have a Network that locally uses a 90% of Netbeui connections and a 10% of TCP/IP connections, you have to...

A. Put the Netbeui binding in the first position in the workstations.

How do you increase the speed of Wins resolutions via RAS. LMhosts on local machine.

Why can't you see HP Jetdirect ports,A: because DLC is not installed.

Group changes made and user does not see the changes, A:user has to log out and log in.

What do you do to prevent people from logging on locally to a PDC. A:\ EDIT USER RIGHTS

You manage 3 servers remotely, how can you connect using autolink to each of the three

servers (not exact wording) - answer is to use a phonebook entry.

You have install GSNW on NT server, what other step is required?

Ans. Create a group on Novell Server called NTGATEWAY.

Want to replicate some files, where you put these files? (Exhibit)

Ans. In any Subdirectory of :\winnt\system32\repl\export. ( make sure in a Subdirectory! )

You want to use your NT server as router, how would you configure IP address?

Ans. Unique IP address for each cards.

NetWare clients want to access MS-SQL Application on NT, what is to be install?

Ans. NWLink

You want to monitor TCP/IP activity on 3 NT server, What to install?

Ans. SNMP on each servers

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

Ans. Any authentication including clear text.

You Installing NT Server and your non-scsi CD-ROM not detected, what should you do?

Ans. Run Installation again and select "S" to specify additional drive.

16. Server boot sector virus. You erase MBR. After restart you receive message that operating system could not be found.
b. Use NT installation disks to start. When prompted use emergency repair disk to recover boot partition.

To use an HP network interface printer the Data Link Control (DLC) protocol (included with Windows NT and discussed in more detail later in the course) must be installed. Installing this protocol can either be done during Setup, or later through the Network applet in Control Panel.

 

Printer pools have the following characteristics:

· All print devices in the printer pool share the same printer name and act as a single device. Pausing the printer, will pause the entire printer pool and changing any properties will affect all print devices in the printer pool.

· The print destinations can all be of the same type or mixed (i.e. serial, parallel, and network).

· When a job arrives for the printer pool, the spooler checks to see which print device is available. The spooler checks for available devices based on the order in which they were added to the printer pool in Print Manager. Therefore, if the printer pool consists of mixed print destinations, make sure that the fastest port is selected first when setting up the printer pool for optimal performance.

 

 

 

Note Windows NT imposes no limits on the number of print devices that can be in a printer pool.

Special Groups

In addition to the built-in groups these groups are created by the system and are used for special purposes. Because the memberships of these groups cannot be altered, the groups are not listed in User Manager for Domains.

However, when you administer a computer and Windows NT presents lists of groups, these special groups sometimes appear in the list. For example, they can appear when assigning permissions to directories, files, shared network directories, or printers.

 

 

Group Refers to

Everyone Anyone using the computer. This includes all local and remote users (that is, the Interactive and Network groups combined).In a domain, members of Everyone can by default access the network, connect to a server’s shared network directories, and print to a server’s printers.

 

Interactive Anyone using the computer locally.

 

Network All users connected over the network to the computer.

 

System The operating system.

 

Creator Owner Transfer of permissions to creators of subdirectories, files, and print jobs. For a directory, if permissions are granted to the Creator Owner group, the creator of a subdirectory or file will be granted those permissions for that subdirectory or file. For a printer, if permissions are granted to the Creator Owner group, the creator of a print job will be granted those permissions for that print job.

printing stops, when you check the partition on which the spool file is located it truns out to be full.

where can you change the path of the spool file?

answer: properties of the server

when you want to create a lot of users with the same settings, rights etc, how to do this.

answer: use template and copy this for each user.

user has a roaming profile but server is down can he still logon?

anser: yes using default user profile

 

Your pagefile has increased its volume. How will that affect?(Multiple Answer)

A.fragmentation and applications slow to start up.

how many controllers and drives are needed, minium, for a stripe set with parity.

A. one controller, three drives.

Change location of print spool folder

A. Edit registry, path Hkeylocalmachine/system/

currentcontrolset/control/print/printer or use the Advance property sheet for print server

 

. Two ways to back up Registry: 1. check Backup Local Registry box, and 2. backup using command prompt, but must specify the path to the registry.

.

. What must be set up to allow autodial to resources on 3 LAN?

A. Set up phone book entry for each dial in location

. DLC is there to communicate with IBM mainframe and more importantly to HP printers CONNECTED DIRECTLY TO THE NETWORK

. After install GSNW, what do you do next to share resource?

A. From GSNW applet in control panel, map and share the resource

. Use Server Manager for both sync. and repl.

To synchronize a backup domain controller with the primary domain controller, select the backup domain controller in Server Manager. From the Computer menu, choose Synchronize with Primary Domain Controller.

To synchronize all domain controllers in a domain, select the primary domain controller in Server Manager. From the Computer menu, choose Synchronize Entire Domain.

. For better performance - move page file off of the boot disk, create a paging file for each disk

. To determine excessive paging on NT 4.0 computer:

Monitor Memory: Pages/Sec and Physical:Avg. Disk Sec/Transfer

How to decrease broadcast traffic with TCP/IP? 

A) Install WINS server.

What are supported under PPP clients to access NT Server using RAS?

A) Name pipes, RPC, Winsock API (TCP/IP), Winsock API (IPX).

What can you do if you accidentally deleted a user profile in the Backup Domain Controller?

A) Recreate a new user account with the same name and assign it with all

the permissions and rights of the deleted user's account.

What will happen when you transfer an uncompressed file to a compressed folder?

A) The file will inherit the compressed attribute from the target

folder.

How to demote a BDC to a file server?

  1. Reinstall NT server.

What built-in user accounts can logon NT Server locally beside Administrator account?

A) Server Operator

B) Account Operator

C) Backup Operator **

D) Print operator

What to configure to enable the device for SCSI controller and backup drive.

Install driver for tape backup drive

Install driver for SCSI Controller

Restart computer

Home directory setup for a user.

Specify full UNC pathname for the user directory on the server

Specify a shared network drive letter on User Environment Profile Screen in User Manager for Domain.

Where is Device Log resides?

A) \WINN_root\System32\RAS directory

Machine running both applications server and print server. A user logon locally to the server and complaint that when there are larger print jobs, it slowed down the application. What can you do?

A) Increased the Applications Performance Boost to maximum on server.

Remember the maximum security encryption is in Require Microsoft Encryption

Three questions about making an Emergency BOOT diskette.

2) Edit the BOOT.ini to point to the other Mirror drive in case the primary fails

You want to install the Migration Tool for Netware on your system. How can you do this?

Install Gateway Services for Netware and NWLink

LMHOSTS and HOSTS files go on the CLIENT machine for faster NETBIOS

resolution.

If you want to back up the registry, the tape device must be on THAT machine, and you need to chose one

file in that volume.

 

That any NT machine can be set up to import from the PDC.

Performance Monitor:

 

Alert-Sends message to users when a certain counter's requirements are met.

 

Chart-Shows performance in a GRAPHICAL format. Can be used to import log data.

 

Log-Used for viewing performance over long periods of time (multiple days)

 

Report-Used for number analysis. Puts the data in a spreadsheet like format.

 

1. NW clients and NW servers. 1 NT server running a Netbios App. What do you install on NT?
c. NWLINK

2. How to create a HomeDir on a BDC for a user?
a. User Manager for Domains: specify UNC Path to HomeDir

3. What to use to manage printer security on NT server from Win95 (with admin tools)
c. Explorer

4. Three domain ctrls, 25 NT ws. Mandatory roaming user profile. The server with the profile is down. What happens when the user trys to login for the first time?
c. will not be able to login to domain
If it's the first time there is no cached profile. However, if after first time they will receive the cached profile.

5. A user wants the same desktop no matter where they logon. How?
c. User manager for domains and assign a UNC path to the profile

8. Print device on server fails. Try to send waiting documents to another printer.
c. Modify port properties of failed printer. Specify new port by using the UNC name of printer.

10. How to put a ws into a domain
b. Domain admins use server manager to add ws
d. Ws administrator must log on to each ws and use control panel-network option to join ws to domain

11. Convert FAT partition to NTFS without losing data
b. Command line convert utility

12. Excessive paging on server. Which activity to look for in performance monitor
a. number of pages/sec


13. How to increase performance of server for less than 10 connections. Which setting
b. server service

14. You want to view contents for TCP/IP connectivity on three servers. Run performance monitor on your ws to view this info. What must you do before you view these counters.
a. Install SNMP service on ea server

15. NT server with 4 x 2 gig hard disk. You want to be able to continue operations if one disk fails. You want fault tolerance. You want to maximize disk space.
d. Disk striping with parity

17. Stripe set with parity. Three drives, 1 scsi controller, one disk fails. Drive that contains boot files and system partition was unaffected. What to do
c. Create partition that is equal to other stripe members. Use disk admin regenerate.

18. Give the ARC pathname in boot.ini for the disk1: Both disks are SCSI with BIOS disabled . What is the entry in boot.ini for disk 2?
Disk 0: System, data, data
Disk 1: Data, mirrored system, data Answer: SCSI(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)


22. What can be an export computer
PDC, BDC,& Member server

23. How do you connect a Win95 to a share on an NT server using admin tools
a. Server manager

24. What happens to file permissions when you use Exployer to copy files from one subdirectory to another on the same NTFS partition
a. All file permissions are inherited from the destination directory

25. You want to prevent all users except admins from logging on to the domain from a domain controller
c. Ensure that only admins have the right to logon locally

30. You configure a stripe set without parity on three disks. One of the disks fails
d. Restore the data from a tape backup (not with parity – read question carefully)

31. You add a new SCSI controller and a network adapter to an existing NT server. After you start the server you receive a message that says "The dependency server failed to start". Where do you look for more info
d. event viewer

32. Documents are failing to print due to lack of disk space.
b. Change the properties on the server to specify a new location for the spool directory.

34. Your network uses NWLink using frame type 802.2 and 802.3. You are adding a WinNT server to the network. What do you do
c. Configure NWLink to use MANUAL FRAME DETECTION. Add both frame types


35. You have Win95 ws with MS networks installed and they want to access a netware server. You install GSNW on the NT server. What else should you do.
c. From the GSNW option in control panel use the gateway option to share the desired directories

36. How would you install Win95 over the network? (choose all that apply)
a. Share Win95 files b. Make installation startup disk e. Install using disk set

40. How do you change the location of a print spool?
a. Edit the registry to point to a new location. Specify the path to a new folder
b. Create the new folder at the location you specified in the registry
c. Stop and start the spooler services

42. How do you upgrade from 3.51 to 4.1 and preserve all configuration settings?
c. While WinNT35 is running, execute winnt32.exe and install NT into existing Winnt35 directory

43. Exhibit - RAS server allows remote client to run NetBEUI, TCP/IP (dial in configuration). What can the client access.
a. NetBIOS applications
b. Winsock applications

45. You want to be notified when disk space on 5 servers is less than 25%. How do you set it up?

d. Setup 5 alert counters for ea server on your ws

 

46. You install new video card. Your server didn't boot right. What do you do?

a. Choose VGA mode and Select Display applet in control panel and install new video driver



48. You have 200 PCs with identical SW and HW. How do you automate the build. Choose three

b. Unattended.txt Sysdiff.exe Udf



50. You have NT on a single NTFS partition and want to install DOS. How do you do it?

d. Use FDISK to remove partitions and install DOS



51. You want performance monitor on network activity, which protocol or service do you install?

c. Network monitor





62. Your server has 2GB SCSI disks with 1GB partitions. Your system files and paging file is on the first disk. How do you increase performance?

b. Move the paging file to the 2nd disk

 64. You are installing third party software on your RAS server for clients to dial up. You will also need

a. Install software on ws



65. You dial in to a remote server from 95 you need a secure password encryption

a. MSCHAP – require microsoft authentication


67. When running PPP on your RAS server, what protocols can your client use? Choose all that apply

a. TCP/IP IPX Netbeui


70. In server manager what icon is the PDC?

a. Cube

Answer: a



71. In server manager what icon is the BDC?

b. Cube with monitor



73. Which levels of RAID can contain system and boot files?

d. Mirror set

74. What can a local group contain?
Answer: all except a (cannot contain another local group)

75. What can a global group contain?
a. User accounts in own domain

77. You boot NT, select MSDOS and get "Non System Disk" what could be wrong?
b. Bootsect.dos file

78. What would you do at the disk admin after you have created a partition and would like to have it formatted?
b. Use partition menu and select commit changes now

80. Your NT server rarely has more than 10 connections. Which option should you choose?
a. Minimize memory used

the "Minimize Memory Used" level is meant to accommodate up to 10 remote users simultaneously using Windows NT Server.

The "Balance" option is for up to 64 remote users.

The "Maximize Throughput for File Sharing" is for 64 or more remote users. With this option set, file cache access has priority over user application access to memory (the value of LargeSystemCache in the registry changes to 0x1). Use this option if you are using Windows NT Server for file server capabilities. This is the default setting!

The "Maximize Throughput for Network Applications" is for 64 or more remote users. However, with this option set, users’ application access has priority over file cache access to memory (the value of LargeSystemCache in the registry changes to 0x0). 


82. Remote users set own level of password encryption?

a. Any authentication including clear text



86. Which users can create shares?

a. Admin. Power users Server Operators



87. Unsupported modem, how do you configure it?

d. add modem calls to modem.inf file

89. Replication Governor is configured, what will it do?
a. decrease buffer size calls from BDC to PDC
b. Decrease frequency calls from BDC to PDC

90. You have a group of 15 researchers that need a network for print and some file sharing. Security is of ultimate concern. What type of network?
d. single domain

You need to access winsock apps. What protocol do you use?
TCP/IP

RAS
Supports NWLink, TCP/IP, NetBeui over PPP
SLIP clients can't dial-in

You are an admin of 3 LAN via RAS. What must be setup to allow autodial to resources on 3 LANS
Setup phone book entry for ea dial in location

Authentication is for the entire RAS server. But you can specify per protocol whether access is to server only or whole net.

You don't specify authentication per port, just whether they can dial in or out or both
RAS channel bundling, call back: does the RAS server dial simultaneously or one by one?
One by one

The autodial feature in RAS enables drive mapping and automatic connection to a program/file via dial-up and you can also accomplish it from a dos prompt and a UNC path.

Disk Access:
Disk striping is the fastest for read/write
Disk striping is next
Disk mirroring is slowest

HOSTS - Contains mappings between DNS host name and their IP addresses
LMHOSTS - Contains mappings between NetBios computer names and their IP addresses

Want an applications memory dump on point of application failure?
Dr. Watson deals with failure of apps

Two domains, user needs access to a server in other domain, you want to use one group to accomplish this, what do you need to do?

A:two steps, a trust and create a group)

•Domain E trusts Domain N. You create a local group in domain e. What can this group contain?

A:Users from N, Global groups from N, Global groups from E, local groups from E.

•3. RAS connection fails, where do you look.?

B. device.log

•4. You make changes to services installed where will it be updated in the registry?

A. Local_Machine

•6. What can be an Export Server?

C. NT server in a domain

D. NT server in a workgroup

Answer: C & D

 

5. How can a user be notified a print job finished? Do you have to put

the user to the backup operators group?

Pause the printer and send a print job to a printer. Double-click on the

print job and enter a user name in Notify

6.If you want to grant permission for a user to connect to a RAS server

would you use User Manager for domains or use Remote Access Admin?

Use User Manager for domains

7.If someone delete a file accidentally, do they have to be in the Backup

Operator or owner to be able to restore file from tape?

you must be a member of the Backup operator to do backup/restore.

14. If you are upgrading from 3.51, can you start from 3.51 and type

winnt?

If you are upgrading from 3.51, you run WINNT32 not WINNT. WINNT is for

WIN95 or DOS

15. Do you have to install SNMP to server or workstation?

Install on the server

What happens if you print to a printer that is only available later in = the evening? Print job will be saved in the spooler until time comes = when printer can be printed to.

What happens in a printer pool of two printers, when printer A's job = jams. Does B finish it? NO!

MS-CHAP only for Microsoft clients dialing in, such as Win95 and other =

WinNT computers.

1. Can NT40 use NT3.51printerdrivers, and vice versa ?`Why (not)?

Cannot. NT3.51 drivers create the printjob up to the last bit. NT4-drivers

only create the printjob with GDI-calls which the printing NT4-machine lets

run. This costs less time to print documents on the application machine.

A user John, in your domain works at several different workstations.

John says every time he logs on he gets a different desktop.

C: Create a roaming profile for the user

You create home directories for 2 users on NT server. User 1 on NT

Workstation and User 2 on WFW. After they both log on User 1 has access

to her directory but User 2 cannot access his directory.

C: Map a drive on User 2's WFW computer to her home directory on the

server

You have to stop an individual from logging on to a NT Server by using

the Administrator account.

C: Rename the Administrator account

Assign a group to allow a user to create USER accounts and groups in a

domain. You don't want the user to assign user rights

C: Account Operators

You connect to a shared directory on a NT server. Which special group

are you automatically a member of?

B: Network

You want to shut down a NT server to install new hardware. What NT

server utility do use to disconnect users that are currently using the

server?

C: Server Manager

 

Implementing and supporting NT Server 4.0. Exam 70-67

1. Domain A Trusts Domain B, How can Fred access Files On Domain A from Domain B.

Add Fred to Global Group in Domain B, then add Fred to Local group in domain A.

 

3. On a non-routing RAS server, what can be configured through DHCP on the client? Select all. 

1 default gateway (NO BECAUSE NON-ROUTING)

2 DNS server address

3 WINS server address

4 Subnet mask

Answer: 2, 3, 4

16. You are creating a Printer Pool.

1 Printers must use same device Driver.

2 Printers cannot have same name.

3 Printers must be connected to same Server.

Answer: 1

17. If you want to create a printer pool, what must be the same between both printing devices?

1 They must be connected to the same physical port

2 They must have the same name

3 They must use the same driver

Answer: 2

18. What is required of printer pooling? (Choose one)

1 All printers in the same pool must be identical (printers NOT printer devices)

19. You have a Network printer that prints for WinNt 4.0 and WinNt 3.51 users. What about the driver?

install a driver for each of the operating system on the server

23. The main printer on your network is broken. It'll be out of action for some time and there a number

of jobs queued up that need to be printed. What do you do?

On the Ports tab in printer properties on the print server, create a new port with the full UNC name of another shared printer on the network that can use the same driver

 

24. You have sent a document to the printer, but finds out that it doesn’t print. You want to make the document on another printer on the network. How would you move the document?

Change the printer port with unc name of remote printer

27. Your printer Server has Stalled, How do you start it again?

Stop and Start Spooler.

29. You have 1 Novell server and 50 clients all using the IPX protocol. You install a SQL Server on NT

with a new application the clients need to access, what do you need to install on the NT Server to enable the clients to connect

4 NWLINK IPX/SPX Protocol

35. 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?

2 Nwlink +GSNW

36. NetWare clients shall access an NT Server running a client-server app. What do you need?

Nwlink / IPX

 

42. You want to back-up WinNt Registry with NT’s back-up program. How

Specify a folder that contains a least one file the has something to do with registry

44. You are Installing Third party Software on Your RAS Server for Clients to Dial up you will also need to.

Install Third Party Software On your client Workstation.

 

45. A Win NT Workstation dials into a RAS server. The server is setup as follows: Dial Out Protocol NetBEUI

TCP/IP IPX/SPX Remote Clients NetBEUI TCP/IP Encryption Clear text

What is the WS able to do (select all)?

Use resources on the RAS server+Use applications that require Winsock+ Use applications that uses NetBEUI

48. Remote users dial into your RAS Server to access a company database. The application uses a

windows sockets interface. All servers on your network have both NetBEUI and TCP/IP. Remote users will use WinNt workstation with NetBEUI and TCP/IP. DUN is installed on the workstation.

select how an IP address will be assigned to an NT Workstation

A user with a Win95 client connects to a shared printer, but cannot access. The administrator puts her in a group with correct rights, but still she can’t connect. Why?

The change of group will not take effect before she logs off

73. You have to make a start-up disc to a computer with BIOS disabled. (Choose all)

1 Ntldr Boot.ini Ntdetect.com Ntbootdd.sys

78. Which levels of Windows NT software RAID can incorporate the system/boot partitions in its disk

set? (Check all that apply)

4 Mirror set

The only two strategies which can be used on a NT Server boot or system partition are Disk

Mirroring and Disk Duplexing.

 

85. How can you achieve that logon scripts match on PDC and BDC’s?

replication of servers

89. You want to update your NT 3.51 server to NT 4.0. You want to keep your settings. What do you

do (2 answers required)?

1 Start NT 35.1 and use winnt32.exe

4 start DOS and install NT 4.0 in the same directory as NT 3.51

 

39. A server has poor performance and you suspect that it is paging excessively. What do you do? (answer: Add more RAM)

To use RAS Autodial, what do you need?

Phonebook entries for the sites that you want to be able to autodial.

23. A user with a Win95 client connect to a shared printer, but cannot access. The administrator puts her in a group with correct rights, but still she can't connect. Why?

c The change of group will not take effect before she logs off

 

71. You had a virus corrupt your boot sector. You have deleted the boot sector and when you reboot you get Missing Operating System What must you do to resolve this.

Insert one the tree installation diskettes then when prompet insert the ERD Disk

To restore the boot files.

7) What utility would u choose to create an ERD?

Ans RDISK.EXE

 

23)Your 3'rd party RAS client supports DES encryption.what would you check in your NT server for their authentication?

Ans Require encrypted authentication(CHAP)

12)you want to configure domain so that users can execute their login script regardless of which server validates the logon.what can you do to ensure the logon script will be available on domain controller?

c)use directory replication on all servers(Y)

14)You now have routable Network in your location. You have remote clients accessing your RAS Server. What are the things that can be configured on RAS server from remote location?

a)DHCP. (Y)

b)DNS.

c)WONS.

d)Gateway

 

. * All users can back up any files and folders they have Read permissions to. To restore, they need to be part of Backup Operators, Server Operators, or Administrators groups or have Restore Files and Directories user right.

* Incremental and normal backups mark the file as being backed up, differential and copy do not.

* Incremental - less time to back up, more time to restore

* Differential - more time to back up, less time to restore.

* When using NTBACKUP, do not back up temp files. Do back up the registry on all PDCs and BDCs, remember the tape drive must be physically attached to back up the registry.

* Default log file is \Winnt\BACKUP.LOG

Miscellaneous

* Share Permissions: No Access, Read (RX), Change (RWXD), Full Control

* NTFS Permissions: No Access, List (RX), Add (WX), Add & Read (RWX) (RX), Change (RWXD) (RWXD), Full Control

* Permissions for multiple group membership are cumulative (except for No Access)

* When NTFS and Share permissions are used together, effective one is most restrictive (i.e. Share permission )

* Moving files within same partition (directory to directory) - files retain original permissions

* Moving files between partitions - files inherit permissions of destination folder (acts as a copy and delete)

* Copying files within same or different partitions - files inherit permissions of destination folder

* Disk Administrator - know Commit Changes Now on Partition menu -

Partitions and drives will NOT be created or changed until this command is issued.

* Built-in local groups are: Account Operators, Administrators, Backup Operators, Server Operators, Print Operators, Guests, Users, Replicators.

* Home directories are created using NT Explorer on the PDC. To make home directory the same as the username use %username% in path.

* Default for system policies: PDC \Winnt\System32\Repl\Import\Scripts (Also called NETLOGON) directory is also called NETLOGON). File is NTCONFIG.POL

* User policies override system policies.

* When user is member of several groups with policies, group policies are merged based on group priority.

* In case of a discrepancy between a user profile and a system policy, the system policy overrides the profile.

* Profiles \Winnt\Profiles\username\Desktop

* Roaming profiles - server\Profiles - called NTUSER.DAT

* Mandatory profiles - rename roaming profile to NTUSER.MAN

* If a primary partition is created after extended partitions, the partitions are renumbered (all primaries are numbered, then extended).

* GSNW is installed on NT server, installs NWLink and CSNW automatically

* CSNW is installed on workstations only

* GSNW is a bridge between SMB and NCP

* DHCP can give you - NetBIOS name, DNS and WINS server addresses, default gateway

* Volume sets - can expand NTFS volume set, cannot expand FAT volume set, cannot reduce

* Home directories - need UNC and share name

* Hardware profiles are created through Control Panel\System\Hardware Profiles

* To allow workstations to logon to domain: using Server Manager - add

computer names of all domain workstations, using User Manager for Domains - add user accounts to domain and associate user accounts computer names.

* System partition must be a primary partition, boot partition can be on primary or logical drive within an extended partition. If you add a new primary, the drive letters for the logical drives will change and the

partition number will increase by one.

Alerts - can only send to one user, group, or machine

* To use ERD, boot with NT startup disks

* To make set of startup disks AFTER installation, run WINNT32/OX

* ERD can verify the NT system files, inspect the system start-up environment and inspect the boot sector.

* If the /s switch is used with RDISK, then the ERD program will backup user

accounts and file security.

* Set up dump files from System\Properties\Shutdown

* To exam contents of memory dump files, use DUMPEXAM.

 

>1. Do you need to stop server services when backing up registry?
Not if you're using ntbackup.
>2. In Performance Monitor, which objects/counters should you use to measure exccessive paging?