TOPICS COVERED ON THE EXAM

NT Workstation 4.0 - 70-73

 

Hardware Minimum hardware requirements of NT 4 (processor, disk, memory)
Setup Lots of Qs on
UDFs: computer specific info (comp name)

unattend.txt: unattended answer files

sysdiff.exe: stages of running sysdiff.exe

How many of each for scenarios given?

What does sysdiff.exe do (automate application installation during NT setup)

(remember: windiff.exe is an NT Server 3.51 RK utility)

Can't upgrade an HPFS partition to NT 4 (convert to NTFS; then upgrade)

Unistalling NT (back to DOS) - 2 Qs.

(35 out of 162 Qs in Beta: UDFs, unattend.txt, sysdiff.exe)

Printing Printers vs printing devices

How do you set up a pool?

How to modify the priority of a printer so than one group has higher priority?

Changing the spool directory (different from NT 3.51)

How to install a printer (local or network)

How to clear a print job that's stuck in the spooler

Protocols used for a NIC printing device (eg. HP JetDirect)

Printing to (LPR) Unix printers.

NT printing to an Apple Laserwriter printer.

Setting up printers to server to serve various OS: Win95, NT 3.51/4.0

Permissions File/Directory permissions (NTFS) - interaction with share permissions

Permissions table: what are effective - locally and over the network

Registry regedt32.exe (NT version; supports registry permissions)

regedit.exe (comes for Win95/search keys and branches)

User accounts Default groups on NT WS (rights and abilities they have)

Limitations of an ordinary user vs a power user

Logging on to a domain vs local logon

Know how to change from on domain to the other

Upgrading Can't upgrade from Win95 to NT WS 4 directly: registry contents not compatible

Upgrading from WFW, Win95, NT WS 3.51, NT Server 3.51, OS/2.

(how to retain, if possible, previous OS settings; - same dir)

Profiles User profile vs System policy

When to use a Mandatory user profile instead of a system policy?

Location of NT System policy file.

Roaming user profile (how to create, default location on local machine)

All users & Default User (see note page - exam spotlight notes)

How to create a MANdatory user profile

Which takes precedence: system & user policies.

Domains Single scenario, multiple solutions


Connectivity Know what PWS do: FTP, Gopher, WWW services (2 Qs)

Know about GSNW, Migration Tool for Netware, FPNW, CSNW

Know about multilink modem connectivity in RAS

TCP/IP Three basic items for IP (IP address, S/N mask, default gateway)

Know what DHCP does

Know what WINS does

Know what DNS does: name resolution Internet Domain names à IP address

(several Qs)

Architecture Start an application min/maximised: start /min *.exe or start /max *.exe

Start an application with different priority: start /low, /normal, /high, /realtime

Running a 16-bit app in its own memory space

Application types supported in NT 4 (DOS, Win16, Win32, OS2, Posix)

How do you run a Posix application under NT 4?

Which type of OS/2 apps are supported under NT 4

Netware Protocol needed to interact with Netware 4.x and 3.x

How to process a logon script

How to print a banner page & map drives.

x.500 naming

CSNW: NDS support (yes) - cannot run Netadmin or Nwadmin

(12 Qs: 2 on Context Setting Qs)

RAS PPTP protocol (3 Qs)

Multi link: setting up dial out with Multilink and setting server callback

Disk Administrator How and why to set up stripe sets

How much free space can you get out of a given configuration

When (or if) to use volume sets.

(few Qs)

Troubleshooting Know about boot.ini and ARC naming convention

When to use ERD

When to use Windows NT Setup disks

When to use boot disk (which files are on it?)

What happends if an NT boot file is missing from C:\.

Difference of ERD, NT Setup disks and boot floppy

How to save system and application crash dumps in NT 4

(Control Panel/System properties à System, Dr Watson à applications)

Last known good (how to use)

Hardware Profiles When to use them