You are building a Windows Server 2003 server that is to be used as a database server for your company. Deciding that hardware RAID is the way to go, you purchase a new controller card that supports RAID-5. After you install the new card and start your server, the controller card does not appear in Device Manager. What do you need to do to get the hardware working correctly?

You are the administrator of a network that has several Windows Server 2003 servers. When starting your mail server, you receive a blue screen. The Recovery Console was not preloaded. How will you boot to it?

Mary has installed four disks on her Windows Server 2003 server that she wants to configure as a RAID-5 array. However, it doesn't seem to be working. What is the most likely cause of Mary's problem?

You are the network administrator for a small manufacturing firm. Because of a downturn in the economy, you are unable to upgrade your servers, so you must make do with the hardware you currently own. You're running out of disk space on your file server. What steps can you take to keep the file server from becoming full?

Joe is the network administrator for a mid-sized network that consists of 20 Windows Server 2003 servers and 700 Windows XP workstations. As all good administrators should, he subscribes to several security newsletters. One day he receives a newsletter that tells him that Microsoft has just released an Internet Explorer security patch with a rating of critical. How can Joe get this patch applied to all of his servers and workstations in the least amount of time?

You are a user at a small legal firm. While working with a small database, you attempt to save a file and are denied access because you are out of disk space. You check the NTFS disk quotas and see that you have 50MB of free space remaining, but your database file is only 40MB. What is the problem?

You are the administrator of a small network. You have a Windows Server 2003 server that you suspect is going to need a memory upgrade. Which of the following tools allows you to see how much memory is being used by your applications? (Choose all correct answers.)

You have a Windows Server 2003 server that seems to be sluggish. Which of the following devices should you monitor closely? (Choose all correct answers.)

You are the network administrator for a small advertising firm. Most of the data on your file servers consists of zipped graphics files. You're running out of disk space on your file server. What steps can you take to keep the file server from becoming full?

You are the only system administrator for your company. You have decided to take a long-overdue and well-deserved vacation. Before you go, you want to give one of your users the ability to run backups. To which groups should you add her user account so that she has the proper permissions to perform backups? (Choose all correct answers.)

You have just finished building a new Windows Server 2003 server. As part of your build checklist, you need to create an Emergency Repair Disk. Which Windows Server 2003 utility should you use to create an Emergency Repair Disk?

You are the administrator for Widgets, Inc. The Director of Information Security is extremely security conscious. She wants you to install all Microsoft security patches within 48 hours of their release to the Microsoft Update site. On which of the following clients can this be accomplished using WSUS? (Choose all correct answers.)

Your Windows Server 2003 network consists of various client computers, including many Windows 95 and Windows 98 clients. You have a new application that runs only on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP, to which all your users need access. What can you do to give all your users access to this new application quickly and relatively cheaply?

You are the new junior administrator for a Windows Server 2003 server running IIS 6.0. The CIO is extremely security conscious. She wants you to view the audit logs daily. What utility do you use to view audit information?

Mary is the lead administrator for a small manufacturing firm located in the Southeast. A user in one of the branch offices calls Mary and requests her help on a Windows XP problem. Mary attempts to assist the user over the telephone, but the user is having trouble describing what he is seeing on his screen. Which technologies in Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP can Mary use to fix this problem? (Choose all correct answers.)

You have purchased new hardware and are moving a group of shared folders to a new Windows Server 2003 server. After moving the folders and their contents using Copy, you make the server available again to the users. Soon, your telephone rings with users complaining that they can't see the file shares. What steps must you perform to fix the problem? (Choose all correct answers.)

You are installing a new network application that requires a configuration script to be run when a user logs on to the network. What is the best way to configure this for a Windows Server 2003based network?

You are configuring a Windows NT workstation that you are going to use to manage your Windows Server 2003based network. Which one of the following tools should you install on your workstation?

Stan is a system administrator who works with a mixture of Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 servers. The shipping department has asked him to install a new application that requires a couple different folders that users need Read/Write access to. He installs the application, creates a couple shared folders on a couple different servers, tests the application, and then hands it over to the shipping department. Soon, his phone begins to ring. It seems that users cannot access all the folders. What is the most likely cause of this problem?

You are the administrator for a utility company. Your company is part of a utility cooperative that shares infrastructure and information to keep costs down. You have published coal and natural gas futures prices on your website. However, because of the sensitive nature of this data, this information must be secure. What steps should you perform to allow other companies access to this data while making it secure from unauthorized users? (Choose all correct answers.)

You have attached an external IrDA device on serial port 1 of your Windows Server 2003 server to communicate with a printer. What step should you take to install the device?

You are one of the system administrators for a bank with multiple locations. Because of a shortage of employees, your tellers have to rotate between banks, as needed. All banks are connected to the logon and file servers in the headquarters location by 128K lines. The tellers need to always have the same files and desktop available. Which Windows Server 2003 technology should you implement to make this happen?

You've just installed new SCSI drivers and your server has blue screened. Which Windows Server 2003 server startup option will recover from this problem?

Which of the following methods cannot be used to start the Recovery Console in Windows Server 2003? (Choose all correct answers.)

Mary's boss has been given her the task of saving money. She decides that instead of purchasing new servers, she will set up user quotas and file compression to make the existing servers last longer. Unfortunately, Mary has servers of various vintages. Which operating system cannot use user quotas?

The CIO of your financial services company resigns without warning. Her personal folders contain several files that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) needs access to. The folders have the following permission: CIO: Full Control.

All the user folders, including one for the SEC, are located on a server formatted with NTFS. What's the quickest way to give the SEC access to these files?

In an effort to conserve space on your file servers, you enable disk quotas on every user volume. However, the user data still seems to be increasing in size. What is the most likely problem?

After scheduling a normal backup to run on Sunday night, you want to back up only the files and folders that have changed the rest of the week. What type of backup should you perform on the other days of the week?

You are working with your Windows Server 2003 server when you receive a blue screen. When you reboot your server you see the following message:

Windows cannot access the following registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System

What can you do to recover from this error?

You are one of the system administrators for a bank with multiple locations. Because of a shortage of employees, your tellers have to rotate between banks, as needed. The tellers need to always have the same files and desktop available. Which Windows Server 2003 technology should you implement to make this happen?

You are the administrator of a Windows Server 2003 network for Widgets, Inc. The Director of Information Services is extremely security conscious. She just read an online article that said that a new virus has been released that takes advantage of a security hole that was fixed by a certain hotfix, but most companies have failed to implement it.

You need to verify that the hotfix is installed on all your servers. What should you do?

You are the proud owner of a Windows Server 2003 server. After you have installed your applications, you have decided to create a baseline of system performance. What is the best tool to use to accomplish this?

Your Windows Server 2003 server seems sluggish. You want to figure out what's wrong, so you run Performance Logs and Alerts and see the following averages:

Processor: % ProcessorTime: 50

System: Processor Queue Length: 1

Memory: Pages/sec: 10

PhysicalDisk: Avg. Disk Queue Length: 4

Paging File: % Usage: 25

What should you do to improve performance?

Your Windows Server 2003 server seems sluggish. You want to figure out what's wrong, so you run Performance Logs and Alerts and see the following averages:

Processor: % ProcessorTime: 95

System: Processor Queue Length: 6

Memory: Pages/sec: 10

PhysicalDisk: Avg. Disk Queue Length: 2

Paging File: %Usage: 25

What should you do to improve performance?

You are the administrator of a Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services load-balanced application farm. You have identical applications installed on all your servers. Everything is running fine, except your database administrators complain that if they start a Terminal Services session where they are doing a database rebuild in the office and then try to reconnect to that session from their home computer, they get a new session. What can you do to fix this issue?

After reading about all the new features in Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services, Joe decides to install a new test server to see whether everything he has heard is true. Joe installs and configures the new server, loads a few sample applications, and then requests a few users to try it out. However, it seems that only two people can log on to Terminal Services at a time. What is the most likely cause of this problem?

After reading about all the new features in Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services, Joe decides to upgrade all the servers in his Terminal Services farm to Windows Server 2003. After the upgrades are completed, he installs a new application that features audio prompts. When trying to use the application, the end users don't hear anything. What is the most likely cause of this problem?

After Joe gets his Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services servers up and running, he has to work out the licensing issues. If Joe has the following users, what Client Access Licenses (CALs) should he purchase?

• 30 computers

• 10 handheld devices

• 20 users who use both handhelds and computers

  	A.	60 Terminal Services CALs
  	B.	60 Terminal Services device CALs
  	C.	60 Terminal Services user CALs
  	D.	20 Terminal Services user CALs and 40 Terminal Services device CALs

  
  

You are creating a Windows Server 2003 server cluster when you discover that your dynamic disks are not supported. What method can you use to convert your dynamic disks back to basic disks?

You are building a new Windows Server 2003 server to host a SQL database. This server must provide good performance in addition to fault tolerance. How should you configure the disk subsystem?

You are trying out the driver-signing feature of Windows Server 2003 in your test lab. You configure Group Policy to block the installation of unsigned drivers by end users. However, when you log in to test the policy, you are able to install an unsigned driver without any problems. What is the most likely cause of this problem?

Your Windows Server 2003 server seems sluggish. You suspect that the disk subsystem is the bottleneck. Using the Performance Logs and Alerts utility, which counters should you be monitoring? (Choose all correct answers.)

George is building a new server for a database application. The user of the server wants the server to be fault tolerant, so George decides to use Windows Server 2003's mirroring capabilities to create a mirrored set for the boot/system partition. If George has the following drives available, what will be the effective capacity of his boot/system partition?

• Drive 1: 18GB

• Drive 2: 9GB

  	A.	9GB
  	B.	18GB
  	C.	27GB
  	D.	13.5GB

  
  

George decides to add a RAID-5 array to the new server he is building for the database application. If George has the following drives available, what will be the effective capacity of his RAID-5 array?

• Drive 1: 18GB

• Drive 2: 18GB

• Drive 3: 36GB

• Drive 4: 36GB

  	A.	108GB
  	B.	72GB
  	C.	54GB
  	D.	60GB

  
  

Your Windows Server 2003 server seems sluggish. You suspect that the CPU might be the bottleneck. Using the Performance Logs and Alerts utility, which counters should you be monitoring? (Choose all correct answers.)

It's late Friday afternoon and you want to finish a database query so that you can go home. Using Task Manager, what priority can you set the database process to so that it will finish quicker?

You are the administrator for Good Times, Inc. The Director of IT is extremely security conscious. She doesn't want any user being able to use a blank password. Which of the following password policies should you use to accomplish this? (Choose all correct answers.)

In addition to the non-blank passwords requirement, your extremely security-conscious Director of IT wants you to increase the level of audit logging performed for user logons. If there are going to be more items audited, what other step should you take?

You're the system administrator for a fairly large corporation. Your corporation has a mix of network clients and platforms. You want to use Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services so that all clients see the same desktop. Which of the following platforms are not supported by the Windows Server 2003 version of Terminal Services? (Choose all correct answers.)

You are the lead administrator for a large manufacturer of farm machinery and related parts based in the Upper Midwest. Your company has several small manufacturing plants spread out over a five-state area. Most of the end users are not computer savvy, so the client computers are somewhat locked down. All clients are running Windows XP, and all servers are running Windows Server 2003. The manufacturing plants are connected to headquarters via 128K lines in a hub-and-spoke configuration. A WSUS server is located in each location.

Each WSUS server is configured to synchronize by using the default settings. Because bandwidth at each office is limited, you want to ensure that updates require the minimum amount of time. What should you do? (Choose all correct answers.)

You are the network administrator for a small legal firm. Most of the data on your file servers consists of old legal documents. You're running out of disk space on your file server. What steps can you take to keep the file server from becoming full?

You are the network administrator for an engineering firm. You are setting up folder permissions for Mary Smith, a new employee.

The Projects folder is configured with the following permissions:

Share Permissions:

Managers: Full Control

Engineering department: Change

Scheduling department: Read

NTFS Permissions

Managers: Full Control

Engineering department: Modify

Scheduling: Read

If Mary is a member of the Engineering department and the Scheduling group, what is her effective permission over the network?

You are the administrator of a Windows Server 2003 network that consists of clients ranging from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows XP. You purchase and install a new XYZ Color Laser printer and install the Windows 2003 drivers on your print server. Your Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients are able to print without any problems. However, when you try to print from the Windows NT 4.0 clients, you receive a message similar to the following: "The server on which the printer resides does not have a suitable XYZ printer driver installed." What is the best solution?

Davin is the system administrator for a small accounting firm. He has set up several identical printers in a common area on which users can print their reports. Unfortunately, most users seem to want to use the same printer, so users are constantly standing around waiting for their print jobs to finish.

What can Davin do to improve the printing process so that users can get their reports faster?

Frank is the purchasing officer for the IT department of BigCo, Inc. James, the lead administrator, has requested that Frank purchase four copies of Windows Server 2003 to be used for domain controllers. Which of the following versions of Windows Server 2003 cannot be used for a domain controller?

You are the administrator of a Windows 2000 network. You decide to buy a new server and load a copy of Windows Server 2003 SP1 on it. After loading the operating system and logging on for the first time, you inadvertently click the Finish button on the Post Setup Security Updates screen. You still need to install the current updates on the server; how do you return to the Post Setup Security Updates screen?

You are the administrator of a Windows 2000 network that consists of clients ranging from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows XP. You purchase and install your first Windows Server 2003 server and join it to your domain. You are able to log on to the server without any problems using your domain account. However, when you try to change the password on the local administrator account to "password," you receive a message similar to the following: "The password does not meet the complexity requirements." This local administrator password works on all your other machines. What is the problem?

You are the system administrator for a small chemical company. One of your department managers just called, and she wants you to give Fred, one of the employee's, read access to an object in Active Directory. What tool should you use to accomplish this?

You are the administrator of a Windows Server 2003 network that consists of clients ranging from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows XP. You need to delegate management of the users in the Kansas City OU to one of your junior administrators. What is the best way to accomplish this?

You are the administrator of a Windows Server 2003 network for Widgets, Inc. A Windows Server 2003 computer named FilePrint1 functions as a print server on the network. Several users submit large print jobs to Printer5, which is hosted on FilePrint1. A user reports that the print jobs fails to complete. You examine the print queue on Printer5, and you discover that one of the print jobs is showing an error. You attempt to delete the job, but you are unsuccessful.

You need to ensure that print jobs submitted to Printer5 complete successfully. What is the first thing you should you do?