I took the test on 3/17/98 and (luck of the Irish?) passed with a 884. The test was nerve racking. At first it appeared I wouldnÆt have enough time. I was using the method of skipping the long scenario required/optional result-type questions, and still

had only completed about 20 questions when time was half up. I realized this, kicked it in and finished with about 10 minutes left. There where TEN (ouch!) of the long scenario required/ results type questions. There were no questions about Mackintosh

Here are the long scenario required/ results type questions:

Two were on creating a network with offices in Chicago, Paris, Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas and Caracas. You had to decide on domain models and placement of BDCs & PDC. Pretty straight forward stuff

Two were on giving some users ability to Backup all NT Domain Controllers, NT member servers and NT Workstations . One solution involved creating global groups and adding to the Backup built-in group and the other creating global groups and local groups

nd giving the local groups "backup file and directories" and "restore file and directories" rights. I donÆt know if I got these right because unsure about how NT Workstation uses the Backup built-in group and user rights.

Two were on changing fault tolerance. One from changing from mirroring to disk striping with parity. (Answer was meets required and all optional results) The other from changing to disk striping (Answer was doesnÆt meet required)

Two were on RAS security and data encryption. One involved knowing if data is automatically encrypted when connection from a remote NT. Between two NT machines passwords are always encrypted (using MS-CHAP) but I believe the user must check the "Encrypt

data" checkbox to encrypt the data even if both machines are NT. The other involved using a hardware security device between RAS server and modem (and encrypted data). I have no idea of that answer!

Another involved three groups (sales, management, accounting??), that must access two alike printers. The solution involved creating three printers-- using two print pools

(with different priorities) for the two printers (one for sales and one management) and a non-pooled printer for accounting (because the accounting folks print long five hundred page documents and you donÆt want to tie up both printers ). The solution lo

ked good to meùI selected meets required and all optional.

Another involved using DCHP & WINS Over a wan. Users on one site getting horrible login and browsing response. Requirement was getting same performance on both sites. Solution looked good because it put a WINS server and DCHP site with bad performance B

T it didnÆt say to put a BDC on that slow site so I answered doesnÆt meet required

Here are the other question that stick in my mind

1) There was a strange question that said you wanted to log changes to the "Domain directory" on a domain which was one of seven domains. The question showed the actual "audit policy" screen in User Manager for Domains. You had to show which audit item

you would check to do domain directory auditing by actually clicking on the image. I donÆt know the answer to this.

2) A question on using multiple IP addresses to create virtual servers in IIS. It was a little more complicated because it said each IP address has a different IP domain. I think this was smoke and the answer was "Use Network in control Panel to add ad

itional IP addresses to card" and "Create www folders for each server In IIS"

3) There was a question on how to alter a remote Servers registry using Policy Editor

4) There was a question on which domain model to use in 75,000 user network on a University Campus and have Centralized user accounts and decentralized resource administration (Multiple Master)

5) One question asked what was needed on the NT Server to move Users, files and file permissions from Novell, The answer was NTFS (canÆt migrate file permissions to FAT)

6) A simple question on what DHCP does

7) One question involved not being able to print to a DLC printer after resetting the printer. I was undecided between two answers. One said the DLC didnÆt initialize properly (or something like that) on the device. The other said that someone else ha

created a printer for the device on another server and marked the "continuous connection" check box when they set it up. (From experience I know this definitely would keep you from being able to print to the device from another server)

8) There was a question on the reason a user couldnÆt access a share on a server (because administrator gave the file/directory permissions but not the share permissions)

9) There was a question about logging onto a domain from a trusted domain and what rights you have. There were "Guest accounts" rights in two of the answers

10) There was a question about effective rights in which you had to know that if youÆre a member of a group that has "No Access" to on object, then you wonÆt have access even if your a member of another group that has access rights.

Hope this helps. Good Luck

STM