Review II

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[edit section] Review Part II: Where do you go next?

If you have learned all of the material and you think you are ready to take the test, great! You should speed by this final lesson. If not, though, take this final lesson to see what you need to improve on before continuing on in your exam preparation for the Windows XP Professional exam.

This review is structured toinclude questions from each of the major objectives of the test. There are detailed explanations of how to approach these questions as well as where to refer for more information.

Take the assessment below and spend no longer than two minutes on each question.

[edit section] Assessment

1. A user reports to you that she can login to the server \\server using one set of credentials, but when she wishes to login with a different set, she is not given the ability. Instead, she is simply redirected to the resource she is trying to access, but with the credentials she does not wish to use. What should you tell her to do?

a. Tell her to use the NET use \\server /delete command

b. Tell her to use the NET delete \\server command

c. Open the Stored Passwords dialogue and delete \\server

d. Reboot the server to clear the sessions cache

2. Tim wants to be able to create a shared folder on his computer for the other members of his group to use. He is a domain user, and complains he can’t do this. What is the minimum change necessary to allow him to create a shared folder?

a. Add him to the Administrators group

b. Add him to the Users group

c. Add him to the Power Users group

d. Add him to the Sharing and Security Operators group

3. Bob is a user on the computer COMP and a member of a domain COMPANY. You make a group policy update, but his computer does not reflect the changes. How do you resolve the problem?

a. Tell him to re-start his computer

b. Tell him to type in the command prompt “GPUPDATE /target:COMP”

c. Tell him to type in the command prompt “GPUPDATE /target:Bob”

d. Tell him to type in the command prompt “GPUPDATE /target:COMPANY”

4. You are the administrator of a computer and wish to monitor the memory usage and performance of five separate 16-bit Windows applications. Which of the following should you do to achieve this?

a. Run the 16-bit applications in compatibility mode for Windows 95

b. Highlight the shortcuts for all five applications and press enter at once

c. Run each 16-bit application in its own memory space

d. Run all 16-bit applications in one memory space

5. A user’s profile is accidently deleted and as a result she is unable to retrieve her documents. Which of the following should you use to retrieve her data?

a. Run the command “CIPHER” as a new user under a new profile

b. Restart the computer

c. Run the command “RESTORE” as the administrator

d. Login using the Data Recovery Agent and use the key to decrypt and copy over the documents

e. Login as the administrator and change the permissions such that the user has “full control” access to the documents

6. Which of the following are features of IIS on Windows XP? (Choose two)

a. ISAPI filtering

b. Bandwidth throttling

c. HTTP Keep Alive

d. IP/DNS Resolution

e. Driver management

7. You wish to install software on client computers without the applications being advertised in the Add/Remove programs dialogue. How do you do this?

a. Publish the package to users

b. Publish the package to computers

c. Assign the package to users

d. Assign the package to computers

8. Which of the following tools verifies unsigned drives on Windows XP?

a. Winmsd.exe

b. Gpupdate.exe

c. Sigcheck.eve

d. Sigverif.exe

9. A user upgrades his PC from Windows 98 to Windows XP. He complains that he cannot compress files or folders. What should you do?

a. Enable EFS on the volume

b. Enable RAID level 0 on the volume

c. Enable RAID level 1 on the volume

d. Convert the drive to NTFS

10. A user upgrades his PC from Windows 98 to Windows XP. After the upgrade, he complains that the PC is very slow when he highlights or drags icons. Which of thefollowing should you do to remedy the issue?

a. Change folder options to enable “Low-resolution bitmaps”

b. Change file/folder options to disable “Performance Drag”

c. Disable performance option “Show translucent selection rectangle”

d. Defragment the hard drive

[edit section] Answers and Explanations

1. Some questions on the MCSE exam are “analysis based,” and some are “knowledge based.” You will find more of the former than the latter, and this question is no exception. You should notice that there is background information on the issue. Read carefully all of the background information before attempting the question. Based on this question, you should note that she cannot change her credentials, which is the key issue. You should always be able to identify the “key issue” – this is essential to finding the right answer. Next, you should see which of the answers are “bogus” – Microsoft always includes one or event two totally off-base choices. Clearly, choice D is not the answer. Finally, use your knowledge of networking to solve the question. Since she needs to re-login, she must delete her entire use of the server. The answer is A.

2. Key issue: Can’t create a shared folder. Source of issue: Not enough user permission or rights. Correction: Elevate permissions to minimum level to share folders on domain, which is “Power User”. Bogus choices: B, D. Answer is C

3. Key issue: Group policy won’t update on PC. Source of issue: Computer has not pulled new policy. Correction: Force computer to update using GPUPDATE tool. Bogus choices: D. Answer is C

4. This is a new type of question, which is somewhere between analysis and knowledge-based. You need to use both a high degree of your knowledge and some analysis to find a way to “do something.” Here, you are not correcting a problem, so you don’t need to find a key issue. Instead, you need to find a goal and a means of reaching the goal. The goal in this case is to separately monitor performance per application. The means in this case is to run each application in its separate memory space. As always, there will be bogus choices. In this case, the only truly bogus choice is B. Answer is C

5. Key issue: Can’t retrieve data. Source of issue: Deleted user profile. Resolution: Login as a backup operator and un-cipher. Bogus choices: B, E. Answer is D

6. Finally, we arrive at a purely knowledge-based question. Make sure you always read the question fully on these because it will sometimes specify to choose multiple answers (as this question does). For knowledge-based questions, you should first spot the bogus choices, and then use your best judgment to determine the answer. There is no guessing penalty on the MCSE, so feel free to take a stab at it. In this case, the bogus choice is E. You should know that IIS uses ISAPI for Internet applications and that it uses HTTP Keep Alive packets to monitor connections. Answers: A, C

7. Goal: Install software to computer without user intervention and without publishing on Add/Remove Programs. Means: Assign it (force installation) to the computer (without user intervention and to all users). Answer: D

8. Knowledge question. Bogus choices: A, B. Answer: D

9. Key issue: Can’t compress files. Source of issue: Incorrect file system. Correction: Convert to NTFS. Bogus choices: A, B, and C really. Answer D

10. Key issue: Slow performance when dragging after upgrade to XP. Source of issue: PC too slow to run XP visual effects. Solution: Disable translucent dragging effect.

Although this review is far from comprehensive, we hope it has given you some indication of how to pursue these questions and address the issues you will find on the MCSE. We wish you the best of luck and hope you succeed! Thanks for reading the guide.

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