Microsoft’s exam 70-290, Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment is a core networking system requirement for the MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and MCSA 2003 (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator) on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 certifications. It is designed for IT professionals who operate in a medium to large scale business and have at least 12 months experience as a system administrator.

The official domains of this exam are:

• Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices
• Managing Users, Computers, and Groups
• Managing and Maintaining Access to Resources
• Managing and Maintaining a Server Environment
• Managing and Implementing Disaster Recovery

Within these domains, Microsoft might ask realistic and complex simulation questions involving the administration of Microsoft windows and its use in a Medium to Large Scale environment. However, there is no set exact format, as the exam tends to change with time. The exam contains multiple choice, drag and drop, multiple answer, and simulation based questions with a total somewhere between 45 and 70. In order to pass the exam, you must achieve a 700 out of 1000. Microsoft’s exam 70-290, Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment is a core networking system requirement for the MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and MCSA 2003 (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator) on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 certifications. It is designed for IT professionals who operate in a medium to large scale business and have at least 12 months experience as a system administrator.

The official domains of this exam are:

• Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices
• Managing Users, Computers, and Groups
• Managing and Maintaining Access to Resources
• Managing and Maintaining a Server Environment
• Managing and Implementing Disaster Recovery

Within these domains, Microsoft might ask realistic and complex simulation questions involving the administration of Microsoft windows and its use in a Medium to Large Scale environment. However, there is no set exact format, as the exam tends to change with time. The exam contains multiple choice, drag and drop, multiple answer, and simulation based questions with a total somewhere between 45 and 70. In order to pass the exam, you must achieve a 700 out of 1000.

Cisco’s 642-892 CCNP  Cisco Certification. (Cisco Certified Network Professional) is an intermediate-level certification for IT professionals who can install, configure, and troubleshoot local and wide area networks for enterprise organizations with networks from 100 to more than 500 nodes. The CCNP Certification has as its prerequisite the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), and covers content such as: security, converged networks, quality of service (QoS), virtual private networks (VPN) and broadband technologies.

The CCNP got its start several years ago and has been recently changed in the summer of 2003, with the introduction of the Composite exam. There is a four exam, three exam and two exam path to the CCNP. The CCNP is valid for three years. To recertify, the candidate must pass the Composite exam. Recertifying at the Professional level automatically renews the related CCNA certification.

Job roles of those pursuing this certification generally include: network administrator, LAN administrator, and network infrastructure administrator.

1. Which function does the Onboard Administrator perform in the BladeSystem c-Class? (Select two.)
A. configures and troubleshoots the server blade
B. manages connections to the interconnect modules
C. activates Remote Deployment Pack (RDP) when an in-service server fails
D. automates the process of deploying server operating systems and software
E. drives all management features through the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) and Intelligent Chassis Management Bus (ICMB) interfaces  pass4sure hp0-j20  

Answer: BE

2. Which options properly power down a c-Class blade server? (Select two.)
A. Use the virtual power button selection through iLO2.
B. Remove the c-Class blade server from the enclosure.
C. Use the virtual power button selection through RILOE II. pass4sure HP0-S13

D. Switch off the power supplies on the back of the c7000 enclosure.
E. Press and hold the Power On/Standby button for more than 4 seconds.
Answer: AE

3. What happens if you install extra fans in bays of a c7000 BladeSystem enclosure in such a way that they do not meet the next higher fan rule?
A. The enclosure will shut down.
B. The new fans will spin up and run at full speed.
C. The red LED will start blinking on the new fans. pass4sure HP0-M20 
D. The new fans will be marked with location errors.
Answer: D

4. Which LED indicator shows a fan failure?
A. solid blue
B. solid red
C. solid green
D. solid amber
Answer: D
5. What is the correct way of removing an active cool fan from a c-Class enclosure?
A. Lift the handle upwards and pull the fan from the enclosure.
B. Turn the handle on the fan counterclockwise and remove the fan.
C. Remove the four screws securing the fan and lift it out of the enclosure. pass4sure  HP0-P17

D. Remove the power connector from the fan and lift the fan out of the chassis.
Answer: B

6. Which port on a BladeSystem c-Class enclosure serves as a service port for temporary connection to a PC?
A. USB port
B. serial port
C. enclosure link-up port
D. enclosure link-down port
Answer: C

7. Which hardware support services can be offered by HP Care Packs? (Select three.)
A. 2nd-Day Service
B. Pick-up and Return
C. Next Day Exchange
D. 2-Hour Call-to-Repair
E. 6-Hour Call-to-Repair
Answer: BCE

8. Which features are available in Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE) Advanced? (Select three.)
A. monthly OS update and patch downloads  pass4sure HP0-286
B. real-time hardware event monitoring and automated notification to the HP 3rd level support
C. event management and fault detection to enhance Support Point of Presence (SPOP) availability
D. comprehensive enterprise view of open incidents, history, installed clients, client status, and contact information
E. convenient central point of administration through an HP owned and maintained Support Point of Presence (SPOP) server installed at the customer site
Answer: CDE
9. Which HP service offering provides a two-hour response time for software issues and a four-hour response time for hardware issue resolution?
A. Proactive 24
B. HP Support Plus
C. HP Support Plus 24
D. Software Plus Support Service
Answer: A

10. What should a customer do before calling for service during the warranty period?
A. Install the ISEE software to automatically log the event.
B. Order a Care Pack online to have service on the same day.   pass4sure HP0-M19
C. Download the maintenance and service guide for the server.
D. Run diagnostics and install the latest firmware, drivers and patches.
Answer: D

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1.You are the desktop administrator for your company. You are deploying new Windows XP Professional computers with Service Pack 2 (SP2), All computers will be members of the company Active Directory domain, 70-235  MCTS

The company uses a standard antivirus and personal firewall application for all client computers. The manufacturer of this application informs you that the application does not include Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) providers.

You need to ensure that client computers do not display potentially misleading security messages regarding the antivirus and firewall software, What should you do? 

2.You are the desktop administrator for your company’s sales department. The IT manager for the sales department needs to distribute three custom applications to the department’s Windows XP Professional computers. She deploys these applications by using Group Policy.

Some users report that they must log on several times before the newly deployed applications are present on their computers. You need to ensure that all software is deployed the next time the users log on.

What should you do?

A: Enable the Always wait forthe network at computer startup and logon policy.

B: Enable the Always use classic logon policy.

C: Enable the Turn off background refresh of Group Policy policy.

D: Enable the Group Policy slow link detection policy,

Correct Answers:  A  70-235  MCTS

3.You are the desktop administrator for passr4sure company’s branch office.You need to install Windows XP Professional on 100 client computers.

passr4sure company has a volume licensing agreement with Microsoft Corporation that includes Windows XP Professional.You receive a volume license product key from Microsoft that must be used to install Windows XP Professional on the 100 client computers.Howeve,you do not have access to the Windows Xp Professional CD-ROM that Microsoft provided to your company.

You purchase a copy of Windows XP Professional at a local computer store.You begin installing Windows XP Professional on two client computers by using the attended installation method.When Setup prompts you for a product key,you type passr4sure company’s volume license product key.However,Setup displays the following error message:”Invalid product key.”

You need to complete the Windows XP Professional installation on all 100 computers.What should you do?

A: Use the product key that is printed on the back of the CD case for the retail copy of Windows XP Professional that you purchased.

B: Contact a Microsoft activation center to obtain a product activation key.

C: Cancel Setup.Obtain a volume license version of the Windows XP Professional CD-ROM from Microsoft.Rerun setup from t that CD-ROM from Microsoft.Rerun setup from that CD-Rom. 642-381 

D: Cancel setup.Create an unattended installation answer file that contains your company’s volume license product key,and use the answer file to perform an unattended installation of Windows XP Professional.

Correct Answers:  C

4.You are a help desk technician for your company. An employee named Anne is using her Windows XP Professional portable computer to work with a file named MarketingPlan.doc, which is located in a folder named WMFilesOl Plans.

Anne needs to make the file available on her portable computer when she is out of the office. You verify that she has permission to make the file available offline. However, when Anne right-clicks the file, the menu option labeled Make available offline is not visible.

You need to ensure that Anne can make the file available offline, What should you do?

A: Instruct Anne to map a network drive to the \MFilesPlans folder.

B: Instruct Anne to move the MarketingPlan.doc file from the \MFiles01Plans folder to a shared folder that is formatted as NTFS.

C: Ask a network administrator to modify the permissions on the MarketingPlan.doc file to grant Anne Allow - Read 8: Execute permission,

D: Ask a network administrator to open the properties of the Plans shared folder and ensure that the Allow caching of files in this shared folder check box is selected.

Correct Answers:  D

5.You are the desktop administrator for your company. You install a new driver for the network adapter card on your Windows XP Professional computer. When you restart the computer, the monitor displays a STOP error with no text before you are able to log on. Every time you restart the computer, a STOP error halts the start process,

You need to correct the error without affecting the user data on the computer. You also need to restore the original network adapter driver,

What should you do?

A: Restart the computer with the last known good configuration.

B: Restart the computer by using the Recovery console, and stop the Network Connections service.

C: Restart the computer by using a Windows XP Professional CD, and select the option to perform an Automated System Recovery (ASR) restore when prompted.

D: Restart the computer by using a Windows XP Professional bootable floppy disk, and disable the network adapter, Restart the client computer, and enable the network adapter,

Correct Answers:  A

6.You are the desktop administrator for passr4sure company.You want to deploy Windows XP Professional to 50 new computers with the least amount of administrative effort.You want to use a fully automated installation process.

Each new computer is configured with a 20-GB hard disk,a CD-ROM drive,and a floppy disk drive.The computers do not contain network adapter cards.  642-432

You specify the company’s standard installation settings and save them on a floppy disk,in an answer file named Answers.txt.

You use a Windows XP Professional CD-ROM to start the unattended installation on the first computer,and then you insert the floppy disk into the computer’s floppy disk .However,Setup prompts you for configuration information.

You want to ensure that during future installations Setup will finish without prompting for configuration information.What should you do?

A: Change the name of your answer file to Unattend.txt

B: Change the name of your answer file to Winnt.sif.

C: Use the Rbfg.exe utility to create a RIS bootable floppy disk.Copy your answer file to this floppy diks.

D: Create an MS-DOS startup disk.Copy your answer file to this floopy disk.

Correct Answers:  B

7.You are the administrator of 30 Windows XP Professional computers. The computers are not members of a domain, Users of the Windows XP Professional computers encrypt files on the local computers,

A user named Stephen reports that he cannot remember his current password, However, he does remember his previous password. Before he changed to his current password, Stephen created a password reset disk.

You want to ensure that Stephen can log on to his Windows XP Professional computer again, and that he can open the encrypted files. What should you do?

A: Reset Stephen’s password and instruct Stephen to log on with the new password.

B: Reset Stephen’s password and then use the password reset disk. Instruct Stephen to log on with his previous password.  642-432

C: Instruct Stephen to use the password reset disk to set a new password on his account.

D: Use the Forgotten Password Wizard to create a new password reset disk for Stephen. Use this disk to set a new password on Stephen’s account.

Correct Answers: 

8.You are the administrator of 20 Windows XP Professional TestInside.Each computer has one hard disk that has three volumes named C,D,and E.Each volume is 4 GB in size and has approximately 1 GB of available space.The total physical memory of each computer is 196 MB in size.The paging file on each TestInside is located on drive D.

A user named Andrea reports that every day ,one hour after she starts her Windows XP Professional TestInside,the computer appears to perform very slowly for 15 seconds.This always happens after she receives an error message stating that the system is low on virtal memory.

You want to improve the performance of Andrea’s computer.You do not  want to install additional memory.

What should you do?

A: Increase the initial size of the paging file.

B: Move the current paging file to the system drive.

C: Increase the Buffers setting in the Config.sys file.

D: Enable the Adjust for best performance of :System cache momory usage option.

Correct Answers:  A

A: Configure the client computers so that the Windows Management Instrumentation Service is disabled.

B: Configure the client computers so that the Security Center does not display warning messages about applications that are not present.

C: Configure Group Policy objects (GPOs) to disable Windows Firewall on the new client computers.

D: Configure Group Policy objects (GPOs) to deploy the antivirus and firewall application to the new client computers,

Correct Answers:  B