70 270 Exam Prep
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Introduction
MCSA Class for Exam 70-270 The purpose of this class is to prepare us to insall
The cost at the West City community college for the exams is about $70. The exam is available on Friday afternoons. You have to buy a voucher at the bookstore.
We will be taking pratice exams. We will also be using some material from testking.
Book for the course the the self-paced traing kit for the 70-270 exam. Amazon's listing for the book.
Links: http://mcgeraldfamily.com/class-links.htm http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-270.asp http://www.tomkitta.com/guides/70-270.cfm http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3e90dc91-ac56-4665-949b-beda3080e0f6&displaylang=en
Handout: Microsoft Certification Examination 70-270: Installing, Configuring and Administering Windows XP Professional The course material alone is not everything you will need for the exam. "You will need to supplement the course with additional work."
Joe's laptop computer boots both XP and Vista. Joe uses Virtual PC to run XP under Vista.
Joe's Slides
- Virtual PC - set up eval copy of XP under it.
- Language options
- Concept of Certificates
- Diagram a VPN
- MS Exchange
- Demo dialup setup
- Deployment tools, setup manager, sysprep
- MSI
From the handout. The first objective is to perform and troubleshoot an attended installation of Windows XP Professional. Joe's Page for this class and Tom Kitta's page
Kitta says: You can pre-authorize a computer in the AD. What is an AD?
If we are installing or upgrading we need to consider if we are dealing with one or two computers or thousands and select the appropriate approach.
See book, chapter 21, for a discussion of the various install methods. We will be taking a practice test on this topic. Remember the complete install includes activation (an registration?).
Next we watched a presentation from the CD. D:\multimedia\media.htm How setup uses answer files and UDFs. The presentation covered setting up unattend.udb and winnt.sig to automate the install on multiple systems.
For upgrades, if you are booting from a 16 bit-OS, you run winnt.exe. If you are booting from a 32-bit OS you use winnt32.exe. A boot floppy disk with DOS for upgrading over the network would be a 16-bit OS and require winnt.exe. Win 95 and later are 32-bit.
The command line would be something like
Learn the command line reference A-Z. See the entry for winnt. Access it by Start, Help and Support, Tools, Command Line reference.
On the install CD, one of the folders you will find is "SUPPORT". I contains TOOLS, which contains DEPLOY.CAB. One of the depolyment tools in the CAB archive setupmgr.exe that generates unattend.udb and unattend.txt. Also, in DEPLOY.CAB is deploy.chm, a help file.
When you run the Setup Manager wizard you see basically the same questions that would be asked during an attended install. Then you use the text file when running winnt32.exe.
Sysprep.exe is different. DO NOT RUN SYSPREP.EXE ON YOUR WORKING SYSTEM. Its function is to remove the unique identifiers from your install. The identifies would the the workstation name, the product key, etc. The resulting image, with a uniqueness data file and be used to install on multiple systems.
RIS requires a Domain Controller, DNS server and DHCP server. This can be used in conjunction with PXE boot.
Joe ran through the Setup Manager using mostly the default settings. As stated above, Setup Manager generates a test file that will be used with winnt32.
Now we take a exam about installation from the rediness suite on the book's CD.
You cannot upgrade NT 3.51 to XP. You can upgrade 4.0 to XP. NT only does FAT16, not FAT32.
The /checkupgradeonly option to the winnt32 command is useful.
File and setup transfer wizard is useful for transfering you files and setup, duh.
RIS requires Active Directory, DHCP and DNS.
You have to know the command-line options for winnt32.exe
Remember winnt.sif for unattended installs.
For NT 4.0, you must have Service Pack 6 installed to upgrade to XP. Service Pack 6 changs the NT file system to be compatible with the newer OSs.
There may be questions about slipstreaming. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814847
USMT User State Migration tool. See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/russel_november19.mspx
EFS may be on the test. S/MIME may be on the test. s/mime overview
The exams are all machine graded. There are no essay quesions.
Certificates
The questions on the exams assume you at least know what a certificate is.
Certificates = Digital Signatures from a "trusted" Authority
The browser uses SSL (secure socket layers) to check the digital signature in the certificate.
Certificates are issued to specific servers. They use PKI, the public key infrastructure.
Certificates are normally for servers, but you can also put a certificate on your laptop and configure it to allow access back to your server.
Introduction to Code Signing is a related topic.
testking
Need to understand roaming profiles.
Fax services is only enabled by default to send faxes by default.
A question about cachemov.
640x480 by 16 colors the basic VGA mode from 1993 or so. If your monitor comes up like that, you need to install the correct driver for your card.
Use the route command to set the default gateway. See Route
Sharing and NTFS permissions, see Chapter 9 in the book.
Logons may be cached locally in a domain. This allows you to logon with your domain logon even after your workstation is disconnected from the network. See Windows XP Professional Resource Kit - Understanding Logon and Authentication
Local internet zone? See book, page 16-47.
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Sunday October 15, 2006
Even more fun!
We will be starting today with a pratice test from testking.
Q. How does Microsoft define a virtual private network (VPN)?
Joe's bage for us: http://www.mcgeraldfamily.com/
Week 1:
Microsoft's 70-270 Preparation Guide page
Tom Kitta's 70-270 Preparation Guide
Microsoft Download Page for XP Service Pack 2 Deployment Tools
Week 2:
The book that I am Following - MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing, Configuring and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Second Edition
Microsoft Technet VPN Information
Usually the beta exams from MS can be taken for free. Maybe MS will offer a Vista exam for free. Have to keep an eye out.
We are working on two test engines: testking and the one from MS that came with the book.
