NT Server 4.0

Short Answer Questions



1. What are minimum hardware requirements for Windows NT Server, version 4.0?

2. What is the difference between a disk mirror and a disk duplexing scheme?

3. What happens when you type C:\Winnt /b at the command prompt during an installation of Windows NT 4.0?

4. Which file systems are NT 4.0 Server capable of recognizing?

5. Of all your disk management schemes in NT 4.0, which one can combine multiple partitions across multiple disks but is not considered fault-tolerant?

6. How many physical disks are required for a fault-tolerant disk stripe with parity?

7. Windows NT 4.0 can be set up in workgroups instead of domains. How many users are typically recommended in a workgroup environment?

8. When using a "domain" model, Microsoft recommends 4 different types of domain models. What are these models?

9. If you wanted to create a group on your NT Server PDC which represented all users in your Accounting department, what type of group would you create?

10. Can you add a local group to another local group in NT 4.0?

11. Which type of machine can hold a local group in NT 4.0?

12. You usually have one domain trust another domain to use its resources. What happens if both domains need to use resources in each other's domains?

13. What Microsoft protocol is use to communicate with a Novell server running any version of NetWare?

14. In what program belonging to NT 4.0 Server can you setup and configure a "display filter"?

15. Which Windows NT service can be used to translate user-friendly NETBIOS or computer names into their respective IP address?

16. Is it possible to administer a Windows NT PDC from a Windows 95 client machine on your network?
If so how?

17. Where does the file "NTBOOTDD.SYS" come into play?

18. You have an IDE hard drive that's 6.4GB in size and you split it into two partitions, one for the boot partition, and one for the system partition. On which partition would you consider putting your "paging file"?

19. Which activity is easier to perform, promoting a BDC to a PDC, or promoting a member server to a PDC?

20. What Windows NT program can you use to change the location of a user's home directory on an NT Server running as a PDC?

21. You know that a server can be promoted from a BDC to a PDC using the Server Manager utility. But how do you "demote" a PDC back to a BDC?

22. What NT Server tool is used to extend a volume set consisting of 6 partitions spread across 3 disks?

23. Windows NT server is capable of running different programs at different priority levels. Without using Task Manager, how can you change the priority of one of your programs?

24. When you install a SCSI tape drive to your Pentium Pro Server running NT Server 4.0, and you also install all the appropriate drivers for this device using Control Panel, what is the last thing you have to do for the tape drive to work?

25. What is the command line option to create the three installation floppies needed to install Windows NT?