Free MCSE practice exam for Windows NT Server in the Enterprise.

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The MCSE certification requires understanding the Windows NT server enterprise network model. MCSE certification practice exams are a great way to prepare for the MCSE certification and for jobs that will require you to configure, install, maintain, and even recover the use of computers running the Microsoft Windows NT enterprise operating systems. This free practice exam will help you to know Microsoft Windows NT in the enterprise well enough to understand the relationship between computers and each component of the Microsoft Windows NT enterprise network model as related to how a computer communicates over the network. The MCSE certification is an entry or baseline level certification which will equip you for the type of work that requires extensive use of the Microsoft Windows NT enterprise network model.

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1) What needs to be installed on Windows NT server to enable Unix clients to print to the printers that it serves?
2) One of the company sales people called the help desk to complain that when they establish a connection to the RAS server from their hotel room, they do not get a call back after they put in the hotels telephone number. What is the problem?,

  1. Callback security is enabled.
  2. The user put in the wrong phone number.
  3. Dialup Networking is not setup to receive the return call.
  4. The server is calling back to the hotels main switchboard, not the room.

3) Where will auditing information for specific shared network resources be kept?
4) Your server has an excessive amount of disk activity. Performance monitor does not show any disk counter activity. What did you forget to do?
5) You suspect corrupt files or a device driver. The server displays an error message and the boot process is halted. How do you narrow the problem down to the specific file(s) that are corrupt?

  1. Press F8 at boot and watch the file(s) names scroll by to identify the offending file, then replace it..
  2. Hit the space bar and boot to Last Known Good Configuration.
  3. Boot to the Window NT boot diskette, after adding the /sos switch to the boot,ini file. Identify the offending file, then replace it.

6) A server application has historically caused corruption of the registry upon installation. You are required to install it though because the client machines require it to run the client side of the program. How do you proect the registry from being lost to corruption?

  1. Use regedt32.exe to backup the registry.
  2. Use regedit.exe to backup the registry.
  3. Save the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software key to a file.
  4. Use NTbackup to backup the registry.

7) In a multiple master domain, all the masters trust each other and the resource domains trust each master. With 3 master domains and 5 resource domains, how many trust relationships are there?
8) You are implementing a fault tolerance strategy on your network servers and performance is the primary consideration. Which disk fault tolerance strategy will meet this requirement?
9) Which protocol installed on your Windows NT domain will enable users to access existing Netware servers?
10) The PDC is being replaced by a newer, faster machine on a small network. You want to keep the current machine in service. What strategy should you use to implement the change without disrupting the network operations?

  1. Install the new machine as a PDC while offline, and then use backups to restore the DCDB to it. Switch the two machines at night.
  2. Install the new machine as a member server while offline, then promote it to PDC.
  3. Install the new machine as a BDC, then using Server Manager promote it to PDC.

11) While installing the protocol that supports Netware clients, you must specify a frame type or choose auto detection. Which frame type does auto detection default to?
12) When configuring Windows NT core services, which of these is the default selection for Windows NT server?
13) You have four physical disks to use for creating a stripe set. How many drive letters will you have when you are done?
14) Which share permission level would allow users/group members to modify the access control list for the share, of which they are not administrators of?
15) Which utility is used to migrate user informaton and data including passwords from a Netware server to Windows NT server?
16) How can broadcast traffic be minimized across a Windows NT based router when the primary/only network protocol is NWLink IPX-SPX compatible?

  1. Remove RIP for IPX-SPX compatible and create a static route using "route add".
  2. Select No at the prompt for Netbios Broadcast Propogation, when installng RIP for IPX-SPX compatible transport.
  3. Install a third party product that would provide for LSP (Link State Protocol) functionality.

17) Which of these enables use of printer pooling?
18) Which of these is not possible to do with the network client administrator?
19) Which group type is the one that ultimately determines if a user will have access to a network resource when he/she is a member?
20) Where is the roaming profile path defined for Windows 95 users?

  1. In User Profile Path in User Manager for Domains.
  2. In the User Profile tab in the System applet in Control Panel.
  3. You cannot define the path.

21) Web based administration tools can be installed from what source?
22) When IIS is installed, what is the default username created for an anonymous login for a computer named IISSERVER?.
23) When would it be necessary to enable DNS for windows resolution?

  1. As a secondary means of name resolution in case the wins server goes down.
  2. When the LMHOSTS file is too big to administrate.
  3. When non-wins enabled clients exist on the network.

24) A new user who dials into the RAS server has complained that he can't access the sales database on a Netware server. You set up the laptop yourself, so you know the correct protocol is installed for Dialup Networking. What did you forget?
25) How would a baseline of your server performance statistics be established?

  1. Use Network Monitor to record info at peak and slack periods of the day for a few days.
  2. Use Performance Monitor to record info for 24 hr periods for a week.
  3. Use Network Monitor to record info on peak periods.
  4. Use Performance Monitor to record info at peak and slack periods of the day for a few days.


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