Subject: NT Enterprise exam

I took the Enterprise exam (70-68) last Thursday. I passed with a 960.

This was my first Microsoft exam. It was easier than I thought it would

be. The transcenders and brain dumps helped a lot. My comments are:

1) I had two RAS questions where the scenarios were the same and only

the solutions differed. The two optional results were that 1) passwords

should be encrypted and 2) data should be encrypted. The clients

dialing in were NT workstation. In one case, the solution specified any

encryption method including clear text. In the other, they selected the

option to encrypt data. Thus, the question really becomes: When both

RAS server and client are NT Workstation, what gets encrypted, passwords

and data or passwords only? I found an article on Technet that

definitely says that passwords get encrypted even if "any authentication

method including clear text" is selected, but I can't find where it says

that data gets encrypted. In fact, the article implies that the data

DOES NOT get encrypted. I have seen braindumps that say that both data

and passwords get encrypted. I would sure like to know.

2) I had a question on restoring the registry. One option was to boot

from the ERD made AT THE TIME NT WAS INSTALLED, another choice was to

restore from tape backup. Obviously, if the ERD had not been updated

since the time of installation, it would not contain any user acounts or

groups that had been created, so restoring from tape was better in this

case.

3) I had a scenario question that included installing WINS servers on

both sides of a WAN link and configuring them to be "PULL ONLY". This

was probably irrelevant, but was something I hadn't seen.

Overall, I thought the test was quite a bit easier than the

Transcenders. Thanks.