Free MCSE practice exam for Windows NT Server

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The MCSE certification requires understanding the Microsoft Windows NT server operating system. 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 operating systems. This free MCSE practice exam will help you to know the Windows NT server well enough to understand the administration model for each component of Windows NT server. The MCSE certification is an entry or baseline level certification which will equip you for the type of work that requires extensive use of Windows NT server.

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1) The system partition has failed on your mirror set. You break the mirror using disk administrator. Since the system partition has been removed, and the machine will not reboot after you replace the faulty hard disk, you have created a Windows NT boot diskette. What is left to do before you shut down the server?

  1. Copy Ntldr, Ntdetect, and ntbootdd.sys to the diskette.
  2. Nothing, shut down the server.
  3. Edit the boot.ini file on the diskette to point to the good boot partition.

2) After a seemingly successful install of server, after the final reboot, the modem no longer works. The ports applet in control panel shows com2 as taken, even though you have no modem communication. What is the problem here?

3) While the server is booting, it halts the boot process and displays a message stating that it cannot find the file ntoskrnl.exe. Why would it not be able to find the file?
  1. The boot.ini file is missing or corrupt.
  2. The boot.ini file is missing or corrupt and the <%systemroot%> is not installed to the default location.
  3. The file ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt.

4) You have determined that the emergency repair procedure is required to repair a Windows NT server. Your installation diskettes are missing. How would you recreate them from the cd.

5) Your DOS applications tend to have path errors occasionally. Unfortunately the users do not save the error messages for you to see later. Where else can you find the error messages saved for later viewing?

6) You have 5 scsi drives in your server. The first 2 have partitions on them, of which the first has a single 50mb system partition with 950mb of free space and the second has a 225mb boot partition with 625mb of free space. The third disk has 850mb of free space and the remaining 2 drives have 1gb of free space each. How big would a stripe set with parity be, using these disks?

7) You are building a new network for a client who is not too administratively savvy. The network will be required to be divided into subnetworks. Which is the appropriate protocol to use that would keep administrative intervention to a minimum?

8) To install Windows NT on an Intel platform, what are the minimum processor requirements?

9) How do you make a PDC out of a member server?

  1. Choose Computer|Promote to Primary Domain Controller in Server Manager.
  2. Copy the Domain Controller Database to the member server.
  3. Restore the PDC tape backups to the member server.
  4. Reinstall Windows NT.

10) What installtion method would you use to install Windows NT on a machine with no cdrom drive?

11) Why would you choose to change the order of bindings under the Bindings tab in the Network Applet in Control Panel?
  1. To make the most common protocol the first.
  2. To use the same protocol that the majority of machines on the network are using.
  3. Because it can't be done anywhere else.
  4. To give precedence to one protocol over another.

12) Enterprise versions of backup software typically run on a host machine with backup agents on target machines. How are these backup agents configured on the target machines in order to get through the local security?

  1. They run as a service, using the system account.
  2. They run as a service using the administrator account.
  3. They run as a service, using a user account that is a member of the backup operators group.
  4. They run as a service, using a DOMAIN/administrators account.

13) You have just added a scsi tape drive to your Windows NT server's scsi chain. Where is the tape drive configured?

14) For which types of disk setup is the quick format option not available?

15) You want to be able to centrally manage all the print jobs on your LAN, if the need arises. Which print setup schema will achieve this using TCPIP based printing?

  1. Install printer objects on a few network workstations using LPR ports, and share them out the other network workstations.
  2. Install the Microsoft TCPIP Printing service, and create printer objects on the server using LPR ports, and share them out to the network workstations.
  3. The printer object setup doesn't matter, you can use the printer manufacturers print setup utility to manage print jobs.

16) Windows NT has some special built-in groups. The built-in group Interactive provides a user with what right?

17) Which built-in group on Windows NT workstation and member servers can bypass local security?

18) Your company has an interview area where insurance claimants are seated opposite an employee taking their personal information. Generally the employee profiles allow them to access several secure databases of client information. You don't want the employees mistakenly leaving these machines logged in with this kind of access while away from the desk. Even a 5 minute screen saver timeout would not suffice. You have created generic interview accounts for the employees to use at these machines. These accounts have limited database access. Name a step to take that will absolutely limit the way that these accounts can be modified by each user.

  1. Institute a domain policy limiting changing the desktop properties.
  2. Rename the Ntuser.dat to Ntuser.man.
  3. Limit logons to specific workstations.
  4. Change the default hardware profile.

19) Which client based network administration tool is not included with the Windows 95 client based administration package that is installed using the Network Client Administrator?

20) You want a report on the compression statistics for a list of files on the server. What is the syntax for the COMPACT command to achieve this?

21) What happens to the attributes of a file being copied from one directory to a compressed directory within a partition?

  1. The new copy of the file will retain it's properties from the source directory.
  2. The new copy of the file will inherit the properties of the target directory.

22) True or false? GSNW would be a less resource intensive use of the Windows NT server than would CSNW.

23) Which dialup protocol doesn't support DHCP?

24) You have learned a considerable amount about optimizing Windows NT server since you first put the network together. When you first installed the PDC, it had 6 scsi drives, of which you used two for drives C & D. It has 128mb of RAM, One NIC using three protocols, and one 400mhz processor. Which improvements to the server would render the greatest improvements for the least cost?

  1. Add more RAM.
  2. Add another processor and remove unused protocols.
  3. Add another protocol and another NIC.
  4. Create a Striped Set with Parity and remove the unused protocols.

25) Performance Monitor shows an excessive amount of both paging and processor queue length. Which server component is creating the bottleneck?

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