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I passed NT Enterprise last week with a 921. The braindumps definitely help, but Transcender exams are the ticket for this
one . I found a lot of the NT Server and Workstation questions repeated, so if you have already taken these two exams,
you will find the non-scenario questions easy. I am not the type of person who remembers a lot after an exam. My brain is mush
when I walk out of these things, but here is some stuff I do remember and some helpful tips....
 
I did not find time to be a factor. I finished answering all the questions and had 35 minutes to spare. I used this time reviewing the non-scenario questions and making sure I answered every question. I've heard pros and cons about marking the scenario
questions and coming back to them later. I answered them as they came. If I felt I was spending too much time on a scenario
question, I would answer it and then mark it for review. I never look at the time when I am taking a test until I answer all the
questions. If you keep looking at the clock, you will distract yourself, and start to panic. (At least I do anyway).
 
Below are some of the questions I ran into and what I answered. I also mentioned important points in the questions to be aware
of. I did not list the answers to the somequestions, and in most cases, I could not remember the entire question, but I give enough info so you will know which question I am talking about when/if you see it on the test.

The first question was on permissions in a two domain trust. I had to click on an exhibit and determine what rights a user named
MaryJo had to a resource in the Trusting Domain. Basically what they want you to do is look at the NTFS and Share permissions and determine her access. The NTFS was Change and Share was Read. Because she is accessing the share over 
the network, the Share permissions apply; Read. Pretty easy once you figure out what they are looking for. 
 
Had two questions on Remote Access. Typical Scenario questions about members of Sales staff using NT Workstation
need to dial in from ANY location, password, username and data encryption etc....

The first question presented a solution that seemed fine and fit all the needs, however, they try to trick you by saying that the
server authentication level is set for "allow any authentication including clear text". At first thought, you might think, well, there 
goes the security, but this is NOT true. You have to remember that NT Workstation will by default use MS-CHAP which encrypts
username, passwords and data, regardless of what the server is set for. Don't get fooled by the "allow any authentication including clear text" comment. I answered meets all requirements for this one.

The following RAS question presented the same solution only this time they specified MS-CHAP for the server. There was a 
slight twist however for the call back option. Instead of "Set by Caller" as in the first scenario, they said "Defined by User"
in the second. This really threw me as there is no "Defined by User". I was not sure what they were talking about. I suspect this
might have been an error or their part. Because of this, I answered D)....Does not meet requirements. I think I got this wrong.

I had a number of scenario questions on fault tolerance. If you know the functionally of Stripe sets with/without parity, Mirroring and Volume Sets, you won't have any problems. Things to remember when answering the fault tolerance questions:

Stripe Sets without parity provide the best overall read/write performance, but no fault tolerance.
Stripe Sets with parity provides better read/write performance than mirroring, provides for recovery from failure of one disk, however it places an additional load on the CPU (this is important for the test) due to the writing of parity and calculating pa


To recover from a failure in a mirror set, the first thing you do is Break The Mirror Set. To boot to a mirrored drive, you may have
to edit the arc path in the boot.ini file to point to the working disk.

Be careful to read all the answers before selecting one. I almost chose the wrong answer twice because I did not read all the 
selections. For instance, the question was "What do you do if two disks in a stripe set with parity fail". I chose answer 
C) Recreate the stripe set then restore from backup. I was just about to click Next and I glanced at answer D) Recreate the 
Stripe set WITH PARITY and then restore from backup. Hey, that answer looks better!!!! I almost got that one wrong because
of my haste.

Some of the non-scenario questions I got, that I can remember, are listed below with what I answered.

Netware clients are accessing a client/server application on your NT server, which protocol do you need to load on the NT
server.  Answer: IPX/SPX Compatible Transport.

You have migrated data from a Netware server to an NT server, now you Netware clients are complaining that they cannot access the data on the NT server. What do you need to load on the Netware clients? Answer: MS redirector.

You network consists of NT Workstations and NT Server. You are using IPX/SPX Compatible transport. Some Workstations
cannot access the server. What might the problem be? Answer: Frame Mismatch.

You want to find out how much network traffic is being generated by a workstation. What utility do you use? 
Answer: Network Monitor

You want to establish a baseline for overall network performance. What utility do you use? Answer: Performance Monitor.

You want to monitor utilization of a multi-processor system. What object and counter do you use in Performance Monitor?
Answer: System object....% of Total Processor.

You install a SCSI driver on your system. Now, when you try to reboot, the system won't boot. How do you recover?
Answer: Select the last know good configuration on boot.

You install a new video card in your computer. When the system reboots, the screen is all black. What should you do?
Answer: Boot in VGA mode and install the correct drivers.

You come into work one day and find your NT server with a blue screen. When you try to reboot, the system crashes. What
should you do. Answer: Boot from the setup disk and run the emergency repair.

Know that you can't boot from an emergency repair disk. They try to get you on this one serveral times. Know that you can
recreate the setup disks using the Windows NT CDROM and running winnt.exe or winnt.exe /ox.

You have 300 users that are accessing an Access database on an NT server. Want setting should you select for the server
for best performance. Answer: Maximize throughput for File Sharing.

Bill needs access to the \marketing share on an NT server. You as Administrator give Bill Change access to the folder \Marketing. Bill tries to access the folder but can't. What might the problem be. Answer: Overriding share level permissions.

When they say Folder permissions, they are talking about NTFS permissions. When they mean Share level permissions, they
will explicitly say Share permissions. You must be able to interpret the difference when reading the questions.
 
I got a couple of scenario questions on Domain backup strategies. These are not difficult as long as you understand the
Global group/Local group concepts. The correct answer in this question is to create a global group in the master domain and
put the users that you want to have backup rights into this group. Take this Global group and put it in the Backup Operators
group on all Domain controllers, Member servers and Workstations in the Domain. Just adding the group to the Domain 
Controllers local group won't give the users the rights they need on the Member servers or Workstations as these systems
have their own SAMs. Instead of using the Backup Operators predefined local group, you can create your own local group
and give it the Backup Files and Restore Files right. I believe this is the strategy they use in one of the proposed solutions.

I had a complex printing question involving three group, Account Sales and Managers and you have to configure each group
for certain priorities, and spool properties. They show you this chart which appears overwhelming at first, but if you look at
the requirements, it meets all the objectives.

This is all I can remember. Again, if you took the NT Server 4.0 and Workstation 4.0 exams and did OK on them, you should
not have a problem with this one once you get around the scenario questions. Use the Transcender tests for these, take three
deep breaths before hitting the Start Exam button and you should do OK.

Good luck to all.

Mike