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MCSE Sample Questions : Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

81. You want to upgrade 150 computers from Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Windows 2000 Professional. You create an Unattend.txt file by using Setup Manager.You copy the file to a floppy disk.

    You then start the installation on a test computer by using the Windows 2000 Professional CD-ROM. You insert the floppy disk after the computer starts.

    Although you had set the user interaction level to full unattended mode, you are prompted for all the required parameters.You want to ensure that the unattended installation does not prompt you for input.

    What should you do?

    1. Add a [Data] section to Unattend.txt, and set the Unattendedinstall parameter to Yes.
    2. Add an [Unattend] section to Unattend.txt, and set the OEMPreinstall parameter to yes.
    3. Rename Unattend.txt on the floppy disk to Winnt.sif.
    4. Create a \$Oem$\$1 folder on the hard disk of the test computer, and copy Unattend.txt to the folder.

    Answer: C

    Explanation: When booting the computer from the CD-ROM, and then using an answer file from a floppy disk, the answer file must be named Winnt.sif.

82. You copy the contents of the Windows 2000 Professional CD to a shared network folder named \\Server1\Win2000p.You use the shared folder to perform over-the-network installations of Windows 2000 Professional on new computers purchased by your company.

    You receive a Windows 2000 Service Pack Cd.You apply the Service Pack to Server1 and to the \\Server1\Win2000p folder.

    You discover that the Service Pack contains several files that are incompatible with the new computers.

    You want to make sure that the Service Pack files are not installed on any new computers until the problem has been corrected.

    What can you do?

    1. Use Update.exe from the Service Pack CD on server1. Select the Uninstall option.
    2. Copy the contents of the Windows 2000 Professional CD to \\Server1\Win2000p again, allowing the operating system to overwrite newer files while copying.
    3. Run \\Server1\Win2000p\WinNT32.exe/u on the new computer.
    4. Run Update.exe/s:\\Server1\Win2000p/u from the Service Pack CD on Server1.

    Answer: B

    Explanation: The service pack that has been applied, or slipstreamed, to the installation files and cannot be unapplied.You thus have to replace the installation files in the network share with the original Windows 2000 installation files.

83. You want to install Windows 2000 Professional on 45 new computers on your company's network.You first install Windows 2000 Professional on one of the new computers.

    You log on to the computer by using the local Administrator account.You install Microsoft Office 97, a virus scanner, and other company-standard applications.You then create a RIS image of the computer you configured.

    You want to configure the RIS image so that the standard applications will be accessible to the user when the user first logs on to the network.

    What should you do?

    1. Run Rbfg.exe before installing the standard applications.
    2. Run RIPrep.exe before installing the standard applications.
    3. Copy the All Users profile to the Default Users profile.
    4. Copy the local Administrator account profile to the Default Users profile

    Answer: D

    Explanation: By copying the local Administrator account profile to the default users profile, all users will get access to the shortcuts, which were made when the local administrator installed the applications.

84. You want to upgrade 400 computers from Windows 95 to Windows 2000 Professional.Most of the computers in your company use the same hardware.However, several different peripheral devices are used throughout the company.

    You want to verify that the hardware in use is compatible with Windows 2000 Professional.You want to accomplish this with least amount of administrative effort.

    What should you do?

    1. Create several different computer configurations. Install Windows 2000 Professional and enable driver signing.
    2. Create a bootable floppy disk that contains and automatically runs WinNT32.exe/CheckUpgradeOnlyQ. Send the floppy disk to each user on the network.
    3. Copy the contents of Windows 2000 Professional CD-ROM to a network share. From the network, modify your network logon scripts to run WinNT32.exe/Unattended:ReportOnly.
    4. Use Setup Manager to create a Setup.inf file. Add the entry ReportOnly=Yes to the [Win9xUpg] section of the answer file. Run Winnt32.exe /Unattended:Setup.inf on all of the different computer configurations.

    Answer: D

    Explanation: Winnt32.exe /unattended:setup.inf will start an unattended installation using the answer file setup.inf.When ReportOnly=Yes is added in the [Win9xUpg] section of the answer file, the installation only generates an upgrade report and then exits without making any changes to the current Windows 95 or Windows 98 installation.The upgrade report contains a list of hardware and software incompatibilities and is saved to the root of the system drive if the SaveReportTo key is not specified.

85. Your Windows 2000 Professional computer has a removable disk device installed.The device can use storage modules of varying sizes.You use these storage modules to transfer graphics files between your location and a printing company.The printing company uses Windows NT 4.0 service pack 3.

    You insert a new 20 MB disk device into your computer.When you attempt to format it as FAT32 with the default options, you receive the following error message "Windows was unable to complete the format."

    You need to format the device so that you can use it to send a large graphic file to the printing company. How should you format the device?

    1. As FAT 16 with a 4-KB cluster size.
    2. As FAT 32 with a 1-KB cluster size.
    3. As FAT 32 with a 4-KB cluster size.
    4. As NTFS with a 4-KB cluster size.

    Answer: A

    Explanation: FAT16 and NTFS 4.0 are the only file formats supported by Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3.

86. You are the administrator of your company's network.An employee named Mark is leaving the company.A new employee named Eric has been hired to replace him.

    Mark has a local user account on a Windows 2000 Professional computer.Mark has rights to multiple files and folders on the computer.

    You want Eric to have the same rights and permissions that Mark has.You want to ensure that Mark will no longer have access to the files and folders.You want to accomplish this with least administrative effort.

    What should you do?

    1. Rename Mark's user account to Eric and change the account password.
    2. Create Eric's account by copying Mark's profile to Eric's account.Delete Mark's account.
    3. Create Eric's account by copying Marks account.Delete Mark's account.
    4. Delete Mark's account.Add Eric's account.Add Eric to the same groups to which Mark belonged. Grant Eric to all the individual user rights and permissions that Mark had.

    Answer: A

    Explanation: A user account and the permission and rights attached to them can easily be transferred to another user by renaming the account and changing the password.By renaming Mark's user account and by changing the password, Eric will have the same rights and permissions as Mark had, and Mark will not be able to use his old account.This provides the solution with least amount of administrative effort.

87. Your Windows 2000 Professional computer belongs to the contoso.com domain.You need to encrypt a compressed file named C:\data.You successfully encrypt the file but discover that it is not longer compressed.

    What is the most likely cause of this problem?

    1. A group policy is preventing the compression of encrypted files.
    2. The file is stored on a FAT32 partition.
    3. Only members of the Administrators and the Power Users groups can compress and encrypt files.
    4. Encrypted files cannot be compressed.

    Answer: D

    Explanation: A compressed file cannot be encrypted, and an encrypted file cannot be compressed.If you encrypt a compressed file, the file will first be uncompressed and then encrypted.It will no longer be compressed and neither will you be able to compress it once it has been encrypted.

88. You are the administrator of your company's network.The dial-up server on your network is configured to support certificate authentication.

    A user named Tom wants to use smart card authentication on his Windows 2000 Professional portable computer.You verify that Tom's computer has a PC card smart card reader and the appropriate driver installed.You give Tom a smart card to use.

    What else should you do to enable smart card authentication on Tom's computer?

    1. Configure a dial-up connection to use EAP.Select the smart card device for authentication.
    2. Configure a dial-up connection to use SPAP.Select the smart card device for authentication.
    3. Configure a dial-up connection to use certificate authentication.Enable the user's credentials for authentication.
    4. Configure a dial-up connection to connect to a private network through the Internet.Enable L2TP to create a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel.

    Answer: A

    Explanation: Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is an extension to PPP and works with dial-in, PPP and L2TP clients.The authentication methods used by EAP include smart cards.

89. You upgrade 11 computers in the Accounting department from Windows NT Workstation 4.0 to Windows 2000 Professional.All of the upgraded computers are configured to have the default security settings.

    After the upgrade, users in the Accounting department report that they can no longer run any financial or credit applications on their computers.

    You want all Accounting department users to be able to run these applications.You want to allow only the rights that allow users to run the applications.

    What should you do?

    1. Add each user account to the Power Users group on that user's computer.
    2. Configure the financial and credit applications to run as services on the computers in the Accounting department.
    3. Apply the Compatws.inf security template to the local security policy of the computers in the Accounting department.
    4. Use the Computer Management console to configure separate memory spaces for each financial and credit application on the Accounting department computers.

    Answer: C

    Explanation: The Compatws.inf template relaxes access controls for the Users group and is therefore well suited for Windows 2000 clients that need compatibility with older applications.

90. You are the administrator of your company's network.Ten Windows 2000 Professional computers are located in the Research department.The computers contain highly confidential information.

    You want the 10 computers to be able to communicate with other Windows 2000 Professional computers on the network.However, you do not want them to communicate with computers that are not running Windows 2000, including those that are running Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT. You want to configure a security policy on each computer to ensure that the confidential information is secure.

    What should you do?

    1. Use Security Configuration and Analysis to import the Hisecws.inf security template file to modify the default security settings.
    2. Use security templates to create a security template file and import the security settings to modify the default security settings.
    3. Use the local computer policy to disable the access to this computer from the network option.
    4. Use Secedit.exe to reconfigure the computers' default security settings to not allow anonymous access to the computers.

    Answer: A

    Explanation: The Hisecws.inf, the highly secure template, is used to require maximum protection for network traffic and protocols used between computers running Windows 2000.As a result, such computers configured with a highly secure template can only communicate with other Windows 2000 computers.They will not be able to communicate with computers running Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT.