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MCSE: The Core Exams in a Nutshell

Errata for MCSE: The Core Exams in a Nutshell

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 29
last sentence on the page

The last sentence on the page states that FAT32 partition supports up to a 4 GB partition. This is wrong. A FAT32 partition may be much larger. I am
not sure of its current upper limit, but it is able to exceed the size of any
hard drive currently on the market.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 86
Question 1 reads

Which of the following operate at the Network Layer?

a) TCP
b) IP
c) IPX
d) SPX

The answer given is: A & C. TCP and IPX operate at the Network Layer.

This is wrong--the answer should be B & C. TCP operates at Layer 4 Transport.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 113
first process on the page

The first process on the page (#1) describes that the MBR contains the OS Loader NTLDR. This is not right. The MBR contains the same code as under
DOS. This code looks for a partition that is marked as "active". Then it
loads the first 512 bytes (the bootsector) from that as active marked
partition into memory and execute the code. If this bootsector contains code
for Windows NT it will load NTLDR into memory and execute it.

This is the reason why a bootable disc for NT must be formatted under NT. It
must contain a bootsector from NT, so that it can load NTLDR.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 114
"On the exam" box

The "On the exam" box at the bottom should be reworded as it seems to say one thing and then contradict itself; i.e., you can change the priority
and then you can't. I believe you can change the priority "on the fly" in
Task Manager but this won't cause a permanent priority change for the next
time the process starts.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 119
fourth entry in the bulleted list

The fourth entry in the bulleted list refers to "NTFS (NT filesystem)", and the first sentence reads: "...supported only by Windows NT 4.0 or later."

Surely all versions of NT support the NTFS filesystem, not just 4.0, as it has
been around since 1992. A Transcender test exam I did had NT 3.51 supporting
NTFS.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 183
Question 6:

the answer given on page 193 is "C. The correct command is start /high app.exe." However, option C on page 183 is "start app.exe /high,"
which is incorrect. Option B, "start high app.exe," is closer to the correct
answer, but is also incorrect.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 188
Question 36:

Options (a) and (d) are exactly the same. Also, (b), the correct answer, is given as:

multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)winnt4="Windows NT"

However, (disk) does not have a value of 1 when multi is the first parameter.
(b) should read:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)winnt4="Windows NT"

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 191
Question 51:

I believe the answer should be both A and B, as NT came out of Win 3.1 and the registries are similar, wheras Win95 is completely
different.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 198
Question 9:

"and 99 is the network address" should read "and 99 is the host address."

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 254
Bullet points under "System Policies"

Shouldn't "HKEY_LOCAL_USER" be "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" and
"HKEY_LOCAL_COMPUTER" be "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"?

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 269
Question 31:

Your answer states the correct option is choice A. According to MICROSOFT PRESS WINDOWS NT TECHNICAL SUPPORT, the answer is
choice B.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 278

D. CSNW (choice A) is not an issue with NT server. Since the computer can access NT resources, a faulty cable (choice B) is unlikely. The NetWare
Server is not down (choice D) since other computers can access it.
Therefore, an error in the frame type setting (choice C) is the most likely
problem.

As you can see this is clearly just a typo the only change needed is in the
very beginning of the answer (Change D to C).

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 283
The "Hardware Requirements" section

The "Hardware Requirements" section states under Ram "12 MB (16 MB recommended)" and under Hard disk "117 MB of space required for OS." It should
be "16 MB (32 MB recommended)" and "124 MB of space required for OS."

Reference pages 107 and 220 - it looks like the requirements for NT
Workstation were accidently entered for NT Server.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 327
The third line of the formula has the calculation:


'time = 15000 * 3 / 57600 = .78 hours'

The 3 had already been multiplied from the previous line of the calculation
to give 15000.

It should read:

'time = 15000 / 57600 = 0.26 hours'

which will just over 15 minutes per month per BDC, or abouth 47 minutes in
total for sychronisation. Quite a difference from the 2.3 hours calculated
in the book.

 Anonymous