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Review For Exam 2(Summary Questions)

(Week 8, Monday 3/1/2004)

© Abdou Illia, Spring 2004

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Windows 2000 Family Products&

Preparing Windows 2000 installation

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Summary Questions You are setting up a network for a company. The major concern of the

company’s CEO is being able to provide a continuous database service to its 300 employees as well as a reliable web-based ordering service to its customers all around the world.

a) What feature(s) found in Windows 2000 family products could help the company to provide uninterrupted database and ordering services? Explain.

Answer: Clustering or Network Load-Balancing because with these features service continue to be available even in case of hardware or software failure

b) Which Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system will you use to implement the two services? Why?

Answer: W2K Advanced server W2K DataCenter because only these versions of W2K have these features.

c) Using illustrations, show how each of the two services will work.Answer: See class notes.

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Summary Questions You are setting up a network for a small company that uses only

five computers. All users and their computers are located in the same office. All computers should be on the network. The company does not require centralized security. Users share files regularly and share the same printer. You need to implement this network for as little expense as possible. Which solution should you use?

a) Configure one of the computers with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Active Directory services. Configure the remaining computers with Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional. Join each computer to the same domain.

b) Configure each computer with Windows 2000 Professional and join them to the same workgroup.

c) Configure one of the computers with Windows 2000 Server and Active Directory services. Configure the remaining computers with Windows 2000 Professional. Join each computer to the same workgroup.

d) Configure each computer with Windows 2000 Professional and join them to the same domain.

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Summary Questions You are setting up a network for a company that uses

about 100 computers. All computers should be on the network. The company requires centralized administration. Each user should be able to use a single logon process to gain access to network resources, such as file, print, and application resources. The company expects to grow steadily and wants to be able to add computers and users as necessary, without having to redesign the network. Which solution should you use?

a) Create a parent domain and join all computers running Microsoft Windows 2000 Server to that domain. Create a workgroup and join all computers running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional to that workgroup.

b) Create a workgroup and join all computers to that workgroup.

c) Create a parent domain and child domains as necessary and join each computer to the appropriate domain.

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Summary Questions What advantages does a Microsoft

Windows 2000 domain provide? a) Centralized administrationb) Separate user accounts for each computerc) A single logon process

Which two licensing modes are supported by Microsoft Windows 2000 Server?

a) Client Access Licenseb) Per Serverc) Per Connectiond) Per Seat

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Summary Questions Your network include two Win 2000

servers and 13 workstations. During W2K Server installation, the Per-Server licensing mode was selected. How many CALs are needed in order for all workstations to connect concurrently to the network?

Answer: 13 CALs per server are needed in order for all workstation to connect concurrently.

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Disk Management

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Summary Questions You are configuring a computer with Microsoft Windows 2000. The

computer includes four 12-GB hard disks but does not include any removable storage devices. You will not be running any other operating systems on the computer. You want to implement RAID 5 to ensure fault tolerance, and you want to be able to resize the disk if necessary without having to restart Windows 2000. In addition, a variety of users will be accessing files on the computer, so you want to be able to set folder and file permissions. Which solution should you use?

a. Initialize the hard disks with basic storage, create a primary partition and an extended partition, implement RAID 5, and format the partitions with FAT32.

b. Initialize the hard disk with basic storage, create RAID-5 volumes, and format the partitions with NTFS.

c. Initialize the hard disks with dynamic storage, create RAID-5 volumes, and format the volumes with NTFS.

d. Initialize the hard disks with dynamic storage, create a primary partition and an extended partition, and format the partitions with NTFS.

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Summary Questions

Into which types of partitions can you divide a basic disk?

Answer: Primary and Extended

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File system security

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No Summary Quest. for this part (Review Class notes carefully)

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Distributed File System, Disk Quotas

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Summary Questions1) The computer planning committee at your company is

working to project Windows 2000 Server disk capacity needs for the next two years, as part of the computer equipment budgeting process. Because you are part of the committee, they ask you if there is any way to gather statistics on present disk use over a three-month period to help in making projections. How can you obtain the statistics that they want?

a) Turn on disk auditing for each user’s account, and compile the audit report

b) Set the default disk quota to a low number, and gather statistics based on the resulting reports that users are out of disk space

c) Enable disk quotas, and after three months copy the disk quotas statistics into a file (e.g. spreadsheet or word processor file)

d) There is no easy way to gather statistics except to ask all employees to calculate the space they use.

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Summary Questions2) Which of the following are Dfs models that you can set

up in Windows 2000 Server? a) Standalone

b) Transitive

c) Domain-based

d) All of the above

3) Your assistant is attempting to set up a second Dfs root on a server, but the New Dfs Root Wizard will not let him proceed. What is the problem?

a) He did not reboot the server after creating the first Dfs root

b) The first Dfs root must contain at least two Dfs links before a second Dfs root can be set up.

c) Only one Dfs root can be created on a server.

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Summary Questions4) The management in your organization wants to

limit all employees to 7 MB of disk space, on each volume, which they can use to store files in shared folders and in home folders. What is the best way you can accomplish this?

a) Set up a default disk quota of 7 MB on each shared volume.

b) Set up a disk quota for each user via the Active Directory.

c) Set up a default disk quota of 7 MB for each user account on each volume.

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Summary Questions6) Sara and Richard each have a disk quota of 2 MB. Recently Sara has taken

ownership of an 800 KB database file previously owned by Richard. How does this action affect their disk quotas?

a) When ownership of a file is transferred, that file is exempt from the disk quota allotment.

b) The disk quotas of Sara and Richard are unchanged.

c) Sara’s disk quota is now 2.8 MB, but Richard/’s stays the same.

d) Sara has 800 KB less space out of the 2 MB quota, and Richard has 800 KB more.

7) The lead research scientist in your company needs to work over the weekend to prepare information for a lecture he is presenting on Monday. He does not know how close he is to reaching his disk quota and is calling you to find out. How can you determine where he stands?

a) There is no way to determine where he stands, but you can increase her quota to make sure there is no problem.

b) Check the Quota Entries dialog box in the properties of the shared disk volume that he uses.

c) Open the Command prompt window and use the Quota command along with his account name to find out.