Hi Guys, I took my second exam on Saturday morning (7/25) after less than 3 hours sleep. I ran out of time to review all of my study materials but I was successful w/ 879. I allowed the clock to run out as I tried to review all of the marked questions. I did notice several wrong answers during the 10 mins comment section - but ... what can you do? I earned : Planning - 85%, Installation and Configuration - 88%, Connectivity - 100%, Monitoring and Optimization - 83%, Troubleshooting - 86%. I ll prepare a bit better next time. 


STUDY GUIDES 

Transcender Beta version 3.91 
MCSE TestPrep TCP/IP 1998 
The suggestions from the various BRAINDUMPS (... I thank you guys so much) 
The John Lambert article - "Breeze Through Subnet Masking", http://www.mcpmag.com/members/97mayjun/oe1body.asp 
The Microsoft Official Curriculum - "Internetworking with Microsoft TCP/IP on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (Course 688) 
Microsoft PEP Tests 

DUMP 

Doing the subnetting table removes a lot of the angst once you are on the clock. All of those questions become no-brainers (unless you get sloppy, like I do sometimes). There were approx. 6 questions. I did not use the calculator. 


Given network address, subnets required, what is the subnet mask? 

Given network address, subnets required, hosts required, what is the subnet mask? 

What must you consider when deciding on a subnet mask? 

Know the node types: h-node, b-node and when each is used 

There were several of the following types - 

Sally runs IPCONFIG /ALL and receives the following output, cause? 

Inability to connect (local, remote, specific server share), cause? 


DHCP / WINS / subnet mask / IP address / NetBIOS scope / default gateway / address range / DNS / LMHOSTS file / ftp / etc. 

Order of name resolution (computer / host)? 

How do you check to see if a router is working properly?What command should be used to check various conditions? 

There were many utility questions, (trick area - netstat vs. network monitor) 


ipconfig, netstat, nslookup, arp, nbtstat, tracert, route, ping etc. 

Win 95 users on LAN to access Internet - How do you set up the default gateway for the RAS server? What is the default gateway for the Win 95 users? 

What line protocol is always used to dial into a Microsoft RAS (PPP)? 

Secure encrypted dial connection over the Internet (PPTP)? 

Setting up additional DNS servers for database redundancy - 

backup DNS server (secondary server)? 

load balance but avoid zone transfer (caching only server)?      育路网