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Passed IIS4.0 this Monday (November 23, 1998) with score 910.

It is NOT that hard provided you prepare well despite some answers cannot be found in the braindump or training materials.

Questions are pretty straight forward. Simulations are easy. But you need hands-on.

The training material I use is Microsoft IIS training kit that comes with an evaluation copy of IIS and Proxy server. This helps me clear the doubt of hands-on. On-line documentation is good. Read it.

I notice wordings of the questions have changed a little bit. Watch out for the change. Read the questions word by word carefully. I make it, you definitely CAN make it better.

Below is my compilation of the exam questions. I put cl=100% next to the answer meaning that the confidence level is 100%. However, if you disagree; research the answers.

 

SIMULATION

 

WEB SITES (VIRTUAL SERVER)

 

Q1 Create a virtual web site for your company.

 

Q1A Create a web site named WWWROOT for c:\wwwroot with IP 172.31.255.201 and another web site named WEBPUB for d:\inetpub\webpub with IP 192.168.1.253.

 

Q2 Create a virtual web directory for your company.

 

Q3 Deny web access to all IP addresses except 192.168.0.96 to 192.168.0.127.

 

Q3A You have configured a web site named customer support to allow anonymous access. Use MMC to deny access to a specific client with IP address 172.30.124.189.

 

Q4 Decrease the number of inactive connections without decreasing the number of user connections or timeout value.

 

Q5 Synchronize a password for the anonymous user IUSER_NT5 in MMC.

 

Q6 Enable logging on the default web site and configure it to start new logs when the file size reaches 4Mbytes.

 

Q7 Disable anonymous access to web site.

 

Q8 Your default web site allows 1000 concurrent connections. You want to provide users with web access to a local directory to c:\docs\public. You want to limit the number of users who can simultaneously access to 10.

 

Q9 You want a custom error message for users on your default web site who are denied access to your IIS computer. You create a custom error number 404 that is located at c:\custom\error404.htm.

 

Q10 Configure ISAPI filter "My Filter" located in c:\Docs\Myfilter.dll for default web site

 

FTP SITES

 

Q1 Create a virtual FTP site for your company.

 

Q2 Create a virtual FTP directory for your company.

 

Q2A Create 2 virtual FTP directories. Paths are c:\docs with read/write permission, c:\forms with read permission.

 

Q2B Create a virtual FTP directory on a remote machine with UNC=\\win95\public\information.

 

Q3 Change the number of concurrent FTP connections.

 

Q4 Enable logging on the default FTP site and configure it to start new logs when the file size reaches 4Mbytes.

 

Q5 Disable anonymous access to FTP site.

 

Q6 You want to configure access to the default FTP site so that FTP listens to port 15723.

 

Q7 Change the directory listing mode from DOS to UNIX for a default FTP site.

 

 

WEB SITES (VIRTUAL WEB SERVERS)

 

Q1 You configure multiple web sites using IIS4.0 server. Both sites share the same IP address, virtual directory and TCP port. DNS entries have been setup that points each FQDN to the same IP address. However, when users try to go to the second web site, failed. Why?

 

Q1A You have one IP address and two virtual servers. What do you do?

 

Q2 You need to configure 3 intranet web sites. How to segregate?

 

Q3 You are behind a firewall and want to administer an IIS server with ISM HTMLA. What port does the firewall have to let through?

 

Q4 You need to change the port of 200 web sites. What is the quickest way to achieve this?

 

Q4A You have 2 servers (NY and Ontario). What is the easiest way to change the IP ports on the 200 sites contained at those locations?

 

Q5 What is contained in the metabase? Select all that apply.

 

Q6 Where should host headers for IP addresses be placed?

 

 

 

Q7 You want to host 3 web sites on a single IIS. 10 users will need to access the web sites simultaneously. Which operating system must you use on IIS?

 

Q7A Install IIS4.0 in Windows95. You want to use index server. What do you need to do?

 

Q8 Paul needs to change the IIS default web site on the road from his win95 laptop. How?

 

Q9 You setup 3 intranet web sites and set them to use host headers. How do users find them?

 

Q10 You have configured a virtual directory on your server called "White Horse". After doing so, some people cannot access it. What should you do?

 

Q11 You setup a web site on your intranet. Clients use different browsers. When some clients try to access pages they receive an error message like "Error 401.2, browser does not support required encryption method…"What is wrong?

 

Q12 Trouble with slow access on IIS computer. Discover via performance monitor that the server has low processor usage and high network bandwidth usage. What should you do?

 

Q13 What IIS computer configuration settings are stored in the metabase?

 

Q14 You want to create a virtual directory for your web site that points to the directory on a Netware server. You define the virtual directory by using a UNC path that points to a directory on the Netware server. You configure read access permission on the script permission for the virtual directory. You find that you are unable to read the files on a Netware server by using the virtual directory. What should you do?

 

Q15 DNS is not enabled and you want to connect to a virtual directory "home" on server1 with IP address w.x.y.z. What URL do you use?

 

 

Q16 Becky logs onto a sensitive web site and it is setup to use basic authentication. What is encrypted?

 

Q17 Mary was promoted to manager. Managers have special access to a folder but Mary cannot access. She has same permissions as Bill does and he can access it. What do you do for Mary?

 

Q18 Where are MIME settings kept?

 

Q19 Company with web site and a virtual directory. Images are placed on both. But users can only see web site images not those in virtual directory. What do you do using MMC to correct this problem?

 

Q20 Want user friendly names to access sites. What do you use?

 

Q21 Two sets of users are accessing your site. Some intranet and some internet. The external use browsers that cannot access WINNT challenge/response authentication. How do you set up your site for access to both?

 

Q22 You want to exclude the IP address range from 196.120.35.32 to 196.120.35.63. What netwotk id and subnet mask to us?

 

Q23 You are on server2 and setup a virtual directory to \\server1\stuff. An error message "directory inaccessible, unable to login" comes up after setting up. What is wrong?

 

 

Q24 There are 100 web pages on a web site sharing common elements. If you are the administrator of this web site and the web pages need to be updated 3 times everyday. What is the most least administrative efforts way to maintain this web site?

 

Q25 What permissions must you give to a virtual directory containing image.gif/.jpeg?

 

 

 

FTP SITES

 

Q1 You setup a FTP site and a virtual directory with directory listing set to UNIX. Afterwards not all users can access it. How do you fix the problem?

 

Q2 You have an IIS installation which has only FTP service. How can you configure the FTP site remotely?

 

Q3 You want to limit access to the FTP server. You change control connection TCP/IP port number 20962 on the IIS computer. You then connect from another computer on the same network by specifying the computer IP address in the FTP client application. You receive the following error messages: Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site FTP:\\10.2.1.10\. Operation timed out. What is the cause of the problem?

 

Q4 You change the port number for your FTP site. Now you cannot connect from another PC. Why?

 

Q5 FTP server is setup with directory annotation, UNIX command and some other stuff. Some users can access while some users can’t. How do you fix it?

 

 

 

 

SMTP

 

Q1 How to increase SMTP performance?

 

Q2 Your domain name is currently set to one of your subsidiaries. How do you get SMTP mail to appear it is coming from your real company domain.

 

Q3 Requirements for SMTP. What are they? (Choose all apply)

 

Q4 From SMTP performance monitor, you find the average local retry queue length is 6. How would you improve performance for the service.

 

 

Q5 Users complaints that it takes too long to get back "undeliverable" SMTP messages. How can you reduce the time taken?

 

Q6 Which of the following methods are used to secure SMTP service (choose all that apply)

 

Q7 SMTP should be configured to securely transfer mail between 2 sites. How?

 

Q7A You have an IIS with SMTP server and 2 branch offices. They are backboned together with IIS over the internet. What should you implement in order to ensure secure communication?

 

 

 

NNTP

 

Q1 You install MS NNTP service. You want to provide search capabilities for the newsgroup of your xxxxx to your users. What should you do?

 

Q2 You are the administrator of IIS computer that runs MS NNTP service. Your server has a single home directory configured with the single RAID area. As the number of messages stored in the newsgroup increases, users report server responses too slow. What can you do to improve the response time?

 

 

Q3 You setup expiration policy on NNTP articles for 7 days or when it reaches 500MB for all notes. When does it expire?

 

Q4 Create expiration policy for NNTP site

 

 

 

 

 

 

INDEX SERVER

 

Q1 You have 50MB of data that index server is tracking. You add 100MB more and users complain it is too slow. What do you do?

 

Q2 You have a 500MB corpus. How many free disk space does index server require to index?

 

Q3 You install IIS on Win95 machine and want to use index server. What do you need to do?

 

Q4 What to do to search unfiltered documents?

 

Q5 You have 3 web sites running on one IIS server. When a user uses index server to do a query, he gets data back from all the web sites. What should you do?

 

Q6 Index server is installed on box with 64MB RAM and 64MB swap file. Index server is moving slow so you increase the index server cache setting and is now moving even slower. Why?

 

Q7 There are two domains Sales and Marketing (no trust specified). IIS is running on Sales1 in Sales domain and wants to index something on the Marketing1 server in Marketing. What should you do?

 

Q8 Word lists are taking up too much memory. What do you do? (select 2 options)

 

Q9 What are the 2 methods to monitor performance of index server?

 

 

 

Q10 You have a web site that integrates data in text files with data stored in SQL. You want to index all data of the text file. You want to query the text file and the SQL database. What should you do?

 

Q11 You are preparing to install index server onto your server that will index 321,000 documents. What is the recommended amount of RAM you should have installed?

 

Q12 When the amount of information in a word list goes above the limit of the index server’s set value, what type of index does the cached information go into?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SITE SERVER EXPRESS

 

Q1 You import 2 log files per day. You have 900 users accessing your site. You want to reduce import time and resolution time. What should you do?

 

Q2 Your web site uses virtual directories on 4 servers. You want to create a summary of all images on your site. How?

 

Q3 What is the easiest way to find how many 32K objects that have HTML extension

 

Q4 You have a laptop and want to download whole web site. How?

 

Q5 You are logging WWW with text logging and you want to know where to find the number of page hits. How?

 

Q6 3 sites require host headers summary. How?

 

Q7 Site server reports hourly on web site. Some IPs are not logged. Why?

 

Q8 You access a web page. You want to use site server to download the web page and all its links. How do you setup site server to download?

 

 

 

 

 

 

PERFORMANCE TUNING AND TROUBLESHOOTING

 

Q1 Trouble with slow access on IIS computer. Discover via performance monitor that the server has low processor usage and high network bandwidth usage. What should you do?

 

Q2 Discover that the average reading of "local retry queue length" is 6. How can you improve it?

 

Q3 How can you decrease the number of threads used by web applications?

 

Q4 You have a high number of not found errors on your web site. Why?

 

Q5 You want to enable logging of your web site. What option should you choose to allow the lowest processing overhead?

 

Q6 How can you maximize performance with SSL?

 

 

 

 

ODBC ERRORS

 

Q1 A user tries to connect to a database via your company’s web site and receives the error "ODBC…" Login failure. What is the possible cause?

 

Q2 A user tries to connect to a database via your company’s web site and receives the error "ODBC…" General network error. What is the possible cause?

 

Q3 A user tries to connect to a database via your company’s web site and receives the error "ODBC…" MS OLE ODBC provider for ODBC driver error 80004005. MS ODBC driver manager. Data source name not found and no default driver specified. What is the possible cause?

 

Q4 A user tries to connect to a database via your company’s web site and receives the error "ODBC…" Unable to find resources. What is the possible cause?

 

 

 

 

RUNNING APPLICATIONS

 

Q1 Configure a web site for CGI and ISAPI with execute rights in the "\scripts" directory (where the CGI and ISAPI are placed). But cannot read the ISAPI files. Why?

 

Q1A You are running ISAPI and CGI scripts. You move these to a virtual directory and assign permissions. What must you do so that users can run both?

 

Q2 You have a document called .stm which is being read as an html document do you change the MIME mapping of:

 

Q2A .stm extension (binary files from your application) conflicts with server parsed html-documents. What do you do?

 

Q3 You suspect that there is a CGI script running on this server that is not releasing threads. What should you do?

 

Q3A You have a ISAPI application that is slowly taking too many resources. How can you decrease the number of threads?

 

Q4 You have a functioning PERL script in the IIS server1. You move the script to another IIS computer named server2. You test the script it does not work. You verify that script is located in the same server. You also verify that all users have the single script execute and common. What should you do?

 

Q5 Change DNS domain from .edu to .com on all sites. How?

 

 

 

 

 

SECURITY

 

Q1 If you secure the access to a web page using SSL, how do you change the URL in order to access the secure page?

 

Q2 You enable SSL on a virtual directory. A user is complaining that they can not see any files but you can. What do you do?

 

Q3 You have a separate directory for each client and they are only allowed to access their own directory. What is the best security method?

 

Q4 You want to get the most performance out of your IIS server. What is the best way to secure sensitive directories?

 

Q5 Which options would require multiple certificates? Choose two

 

Q6 John setup 3 anonymous logins to IIS with different passwords. Suddenly nobody can access the sites. They are using NT challenge/response logins. What is the problem?

 

Q7 You have a web site that you want to secure so that just managers can see it. Which service should you use?