LAN Server Engineer Advantage
Sample Test 122
SECTION 1 - LAN SERVER INTRODUCTION
1. Which service allows a workstation to boot its operating system over
the network?
a. Netrun
b. Timesource
c. Remoteboot
d. Generic Alerter
2. Which services must be started on the server to allow users to log
onto the domain?
a. Timesource
b. Netlogon
c. LSServer
d. requester
SECTION 2 - DEFINING USERS AND GROUPS
3. An administrator is creating a user account for the domain from the
command prompt of an OS/2 Requester machine. Which command would the
administrator use to create the user account?
a. NET USER JOHN PASSWORD
b. NET USER JOHN /P:PASSWORD/NEW
c. NET ADMIN \\SERVER /C NET USER JOHN PASSWORD /ADD
d. NET SERVER \\SERVER1 NET USER JOHN PASSWORD /ADD
SECTION 3 - SHARING AND USING NETWORK RESOURCES
4. If an administrator defines a netname called GRAPHICS, what is GRAPHICS?
a. a temporary definition stored in memory
b. a permanent definition stored in NET.ACC
c. a permanent definition stored in the DCDB
d. a temporary definition stored in the DCDB
5. Which statement is true about a LAN Server 4.0 administrator creating a
printer alias through the LAN Server Administration GUI?
a. The LPT port of the printer must be defined on the Identity tab page
of the settings notebook.
b. The alias name need not be the same as the spooler queue name.
c. The alias name must be the same as the spooler queue name.
d. The alias may be shared "as required by user."
SECTION 4 - ACCESS CONTROL
6. Which are valid access permissions for printers?
a. none
b. print
c. write
d. create
e. permissions
7. Directory C:\APPS resides on a FAT drive on a server with the
following access control profile:
USERS = R
FINGROUP = RWCD
TOM = XRCW
The administrator then issues the MD C:\APPS\DATA command at the server
console. What access rights does Tom now have to C:\APPS\DATA on the
server?
a. none
b. XRCW
c. RWCD
d. R
SECTION 5 - HOME DIRECTORIES
8. Which statements about home directories are true?
a. Users are assigned one home directory for each group to which they
belong.
b. Users may create subdirectories beneath their home directory.
c. All home directories must reside beneath the \IBMLAN \DCDB\ HOMEDIRS
path of the domain controller.
d. Users have XRWCDPA access permissions to their home directories.
SECTION 6 - SHARED PRINTERS
9. What must be done before a printer connected to a LAN Server may be
shared?
a. The server must be defined to the domain controller as a dedicated
print server.
b. An access control profile must be created for the print spooler,
granting the users group RW access.
c. A local printer object must be created on the server.
d. The DOS/OS/2 printer share program must be installed on the domain
controller.
SECTION 7 - APPLICATION DEFINITIONS
10. Which program type is the OS/2 Window of OS/2?
a. UIO
b. VIO
c. OS/2 PM
d. Protmode
11. Where can a public OS/2 application's executable file reside?
a. on the requester workstation's fixed disk drive if an alias is
defined for the directory containing the executable
b. on the requester workstation's fixed disk drive if the public
application definition references the drive letter and path to the
executable
c. on a server in the domain if an alias is defined for the directory
containing the executable
d. on a server in the domain only if there has been no alias defined for
the directory that contains the executable
12. Alias TUTORIAL points to D:\TUTORFLS. An application looks for its
DLL files in D:\TUTORFLS\DLL. What is the remaining path for a working
directory if this alias is used to define it?
a. D:\TUTORFLS
b. \DLL
c. D:\TUTORFLS\DLL
d. \TUTORFLS
SECTION 8 - CROSS DOMAIN RESOURCES
13. User ID JOHN is defined to DOMAINA, but not DOMAINB. What must the
DOMAINB administrator do to allow JOHN to access C:\APPS\DATA on a
DOMAINB server?
a. Delete JOHN's user ID from DOMAINA, and create a user ID for JOHN in
DOMAINB
b. Grant the users group RWC permissions for C:\APPS\DATA.
c. Grant the GUEST user ID RWC permissions for C:\APPS\DATA
d. Copy C:\APPS\DATA to a server on DOMAINA, and grant the GUESTS group
RWC permissions for C:\APPS\DATA
SECTION 9 - MPTS/2
14. The messenger and server services will be active on a dedicated LAN
Server while a user is logged onto the server console. What must be the
minimum value for the NAMES parameter in PROTOCOL.INI for this to happen
without error?
a. 1
b. 3
c. 6
d. 16
e. 32
SECTION 10 - FILE SYSTEMS
15. Which LAN Server file system limits its cache size to 2 MB?
a. FAT
b. HPFS
c. 386HPFS
d. AIX
SECTION 11 - LAN SERVER INSTALLATION
16. What software must be installed on a machine before LAN Server 4.0
Advanced may be installed?
a. DOS Version 3.3 or above
b. Windows 3.1 or above
c. OS/2 Version 2.1 or above
d. OS/2 Communications Manager/2 or OS/2 Extended Services
SECTION 12 - CAPACITY PLANNING
17. Which LAN Server 4.0 utility helps automate capacity planning?
a. CNFGLS 30
b. CNFGLS 40
c. LS40TUNE
d. SPM/2
SECTION 13 - PERFORMANCE TUNING APPROACHES
18. On one particular server, you notice that the SWAPPER.DAT is always
quite large and that the disk light indicates more activity than the
other servers. You have received complaints about response time on the
server. You are not sure how this server is configured. Given these
observations, where should you begin investigating the problem?
a. CPU speed
b. disk speed
c. machine memory
d. file system
19. An application loads its large data files in 5k data blocks. However,
it is performing much slower than other applications which read smaller
data files. Which configuration parameters might cause this type of
performance bottleneck?
a. cache size that is too small
b. maxwait value that is too low
c. cache threshold size that is too small
d. server running out of big buffers
e. srvheuristic for opportunistic locking that is turned off
20. What does performance benchmarking refer to?
a. selecting and testing the most likely solution
b. using a test environment to predict the effects of a change in the
production environment
c. establishing a baseline and measuring the effects of parameter changes
against that baseline
d. making changes in small increments to find the point at which
additional changes no longer may have an effect
SECTION 14 - CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING TOOLS
21. Which will return the mean response time for OS/2 LAN Server requests?
a. NET STATS SRV
b. NET ERROR
c. NET AUDIT
d. NET CONFIG SRV
22. If a program is scheduled by an administrator to execute on the
server automatically, what MUST the program do?
a. run interactively
b. run in detached mode
c. redirect any output to a printer
d. be a Presentation Manager program
23. Network trace tools provide useful performance tuning information
because they can be used to determine what?
a. the protocol being used to send data
b. the network adapter shared RAM allocation
c. the network traffic generated by a server
d. the extent to which the server cache is being used
e. the size of the records being sent from the server
SECTION 15 - CACHE AND CONFIG.SYS TUNING PARAMETERS
24. What does LAN Server 4.0 386HPFS cache default to?
a. 10% of real memory
b. 20% of real memory
c. 25% of real memory for systems with less than 16 MB of real memory,
50% of real memory for systems with more than 16 MB of real memory
d. 20% of real memory for systems with less than 20 MB of available
memory, 60% of real memory for systems with more than 20 MB of
available memory
25. Which statement is true when CACHE386 is used to test caching?
a. The Entry server must be started
b. /STATS:D should be used to display statistics dynamically
c. Only caching caused by server activity will be displayed
d. /STATS will display the current size of the cache and a snapshot of
the statistics to help document the test
26. Which command would you type at the OS/2 prompt to determine the
current size of 386HPFS cache on a LAN Server Advanced system?
a. CACHE386
b. CACHE386 /STATS
c. CACHE386 /OPTIONS
d. CACHE386 /SIZE
SECTION 16 - IBMLAN.INI PERFORMANCE TUNING
27. Which SMB protocol is used for data transfer when both the header and
all of the data reside within one network buffer?
a. raw
b. core
c. random
d. multiplexed
28. As more users concurrently issue small data requests from the server,
you notice that response time increases substantially. To improve
performance, which parameter would you consider changing first?
a. MAXWRKCACHE on the requesters
b. NUMWORKBUF on the server
c. NUMREQBUF on the server
d. NUMDGRAMBUF on the server
SECTION 17 - PROTOCOL.INI PERFORMANCE TUNING
29. Which server adapter parameter change in PROTOCOL.INI will have the
greatest effect on reducing network adapter congestion error?
a. increasing the transmit buffer size
b. increasing the number of transmit buffers
c. reducing the receive buffer size
d. increasing the number of receive buffers.
SECTION 18 - BACKUP AND RECOVERY TASKS
30. Which utility will back up ACL's in the 386HPFS file system?
a. THIN386
b. FIXACC
c. DCDBREPL
d. BACKACC
LAN Server Engineer Advantage
Sample Test 122
ANSWER KEY
1. c
2. b,c,d
3. c
4. a
5. b
6. a,d,e
7. a
8. b,d
9. c
10. b
11. b,c
12. b
13. c
14. c
15. b
16.
17. c
18. c
19. a,c,d
20. c
21. a
22. b
23. a,c,e
24. d
25. b
26. c
27. b
28. c
29. c
30.d
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