Hi to all Braindumpers,

I took the 70-018 today, and I passed by the first time (Score: 900). Thanx to all Braindumpers, espacially gerardo, simon and ron(wow, what a brain).

Resources:

a.. MSPress Training Kit

b.. Technical Reference

c.. Hands On

d.. www.cramsession.com/mcse/sms12/msmscs.shtml

e.. Braindump

Questions:

1. What should you do to allow Excel to access the SMS database?
Use SMS SQL View Generator create views

2. How should you configure Replication account (Choose 3 out of 6)

Member of replicator group

Member of backup operators group

Log on as service right

 

3. If a secondary site installation completes the pre-installation phase, but fails at the site installation phase, what's the most likely problem?

Not enough disk space

 

 4. You add a new disk drive to a distribution server and want to move the distributed apps to this drive, What should you do?

Run jobs to remove packages from the server

Create new directory and share

Run jobs to distribute apps from the new share

 

5. What happens if the Executive Service is not running on the site server, but inventory collection is running on clients?

Inventory files are left sitting on the logon servers

 

 6. If you had two domains on a single LAN, how would you allow inventory collection in one domain to be more frequent than the other?

Create 2 SMS sites, and alter the site properties of each

 

 7. Where would you check to see if the Macintosh client inventory files are being generated?

Login.srv\isvmif.box

 

 8. How do you force a Windows 95 client to take an inventory if not yet due?

Go to a DOS prompt, connect to the logon server and run INVDOS /F

 

9. What type of jobs can be initiated by an SMS administrator (Choose 3 of 6)

Run command on workstation

Share package on server

Remove package from server

 

10. Network monitor is used look at traffic to and from a particular server. However, after 1 minute the capture file becomes full. What should you do?

Filter the capture (just to get packets from the appropriate server)

 

 11. How does an SMS administrator give access to a shared application group and icons?

Make the NT user account a member of the domain group that has been granted access to the shared group

 

 12. What's the quickest way to transfer files to an SMS client workstation?

Use file transfer in Helpdesk Utilities

 

13. If "Automatically configure workstation logon scripts" is working for only half your workstations in a single NT domain/Single SMS site model, what could be the problem?

Some login scripts have no file extension, and SMS has not modified them

 

 14. What would most likely affect the performance of the SMS site?

Changing the Response rate

 

 15. What would most likely affect the performance of workstations in the SMS site (Choose 2)?

Reduce the package command polling interval

Increase the audit frequency

 

16. If SMS is used primarily for software distribution, and the site server has long periods when the processor usage is too great, what service should be offloaded?

Scheduler

 

 17. What must you do before creating an alert?

Create a query

 

 18. How do you delete a custom MIF entry that has been added to a workstation record in the SMS database?

Select Delete Group Classes from the SMS Database Manager

 

 19. What package properties do you need when running a job on NT servers with no users logged in?

System background task

Automated command line

Job must specify mandatory time

 

20. How do you find out if a package is currently on a distribution server?

Run a query choosing "Package Location" architecture

 

 21. What services can be offloaded to helper servers?

Despooler

Scheduler

Inventory Processor

Inventory Data Loader

RAS and SNA Senders

 

22. How can you reduce h/w requirements for two primary sites connected by a FAST WAN link?

Share single SQL server

 

 23. How are SNMP traps added to the SMS database?

SNMP trap receiver (on the site server)

 

 

24. You want to configure 50 NT servers to send NT events to an SNMP management console. What order should you do things?

First install SNMP service, then install SNMP event-to-trap translator

 

 

25. An application is sent, and distributed successfully, but has not been delivered to the target workstations. What is the problem?

Package is configured to support a different platform

 

26. An application is sent and distributed successfully, but it doesn't show that it has been delivered to the target workstations, but users report that it has worked. What is the reason?

Site configuration has not yet been synchronized with the database

 

 

27. You are install package to 3 NT computers in one domain. At picture you see, that Instructions are received, Job completed, server completed, but none of workstations received a package, why?

Job scheduled at later time

28. How should you upgrade SMS at secondary sites when you are upgrading the parent site?

Through the parent site (Secondary sites are upgraded when the parent site is upgraded. This is an automatic job that is sent out when the parent site upgrade occurs.)

 

 

29. What addresses does a parent site need to have communication with sites below it in the hierarchy?

The addresses of all sites, not just the sites immediately below it

 

 

30. What addresses does a child site need to have to communicate with sites above it in the hierarchy?

Only requires the address of its immediate parent

 

 31. When you create a Remove Package from Server, from where do the packages get deleted?

From the Distribution servers or from a specified group of servers

  

32. What permission must the SQL Login ID have to access the SMS database?

Create Database

Dump Database

Dump Transaction

 

33. How do you monitor the progress of changes made at the site server to the client configurations?

Check sms\site\site.srv\site.cfg box and monitor site control files

 

 

34. What are 4 general requirements for monitoring and controlling clients using SMS?

Client must exist in site inventory

Remote agent software must be started on the client

Client must allow access to the viewer

Server and client must use a common protocol

 

35. What files are used to map SMS clients to logon servers?

SMS.INI

SMSLS.INI

 

36. You want to send a job to distribute a package. Which information do you need to define? (Choose 3)

Target computer

Command line

Date and time of the job to activate

 

37. What can be included in a site group?

Site

Other site group

 

38. What are the requirements for remote control to a Windows 95 client?

Remote control agent must be started at client side

Remote control must be granted at client side

 

39. What are the requirements for remote control of a Windows NT client?

User group needs to be granted access to the remote control client at the site server

The remote control function is granted in the client side

 

40. What are the two services immediately installed on a new logon server?

Inventory Agent

Package Command Manager

 

41.Inventory collection isn't working on secondary site, in which order you check?

Logon-server, sec.-server, pri.-server

 

42. You want to check the syntax of inventory files, what do you use?

Mifcheck

43. A "Run On Workstation"-package is distributed to distr.-servers in a sec.-site, what do you change to distribute it to the clients?

Only the run-phase

 

44. How to increase shared app. performance ? Install multiple distribution servers

Regards,

Nico