Help me with some Newtorking sample questions

[Kelemvor]

I got this quiz from someone as a "test" of your networking knowledge. This is NOT for homework for a class or anything like that..

I'm posting these to see if I'm missing anything obvious from my own thinking. Question is first followed by my answer.

If you care to leave your additions, I'd really appreciate it.

2) You are the network administrator for your company?s network. A user is connected to the LAN via a CAT5e network cable to the network switch.

You receive a call that he cannot get into his email or get on the Internet.

Upon physical inspection of the laptop you discover that the laptop is online, but cannot reach the network. The network card shows a ?link? LED indicating that the laptop is connected.

Please provide a step-by-step descriptive of the actions you would take to diagnose and restore connectivity. List all possible problems and solutions:

I would check via Ipconfig to see if he has a valid IP address. If he has a 169 address, then I'd try a release/renew in case something went wrong during the intial DHCP request. If it still pulled a 169, then I'd lean towards the DHCP server having problems or something in between the port and the DHCP server.

I'd then check the ITCP/P properties to make sure a Static IP wasn't entered with invalid information and set him back to DHCP if needed.

If everything checked out software wise, I'd remove the network card from Device Manager, reboot, and let Windows reinstall the card in case a driver had gotten corrupted.

3) The accounting department has notified the IT department that a new version of the accounting database application has been released and needs to be updated in order to run the company payroll.

This database application runs on the ?ACCOUNTING? server. The accounting manager provides you the new software CD-ROM required for the application update.

Please provide a step-by-step descriptive of the actions you would take to install this update for the accounting department.

I don't have server install experience but I would first make sure everyone was out of the current system and make a backup of all the data. I would then shut down the system on the server and in stall the new software. Then I would restart the program and do whatever testing I would need to to make sure the system was working. I would then apply any needed updates to the clients and make sure they can log in as well.

4) Your company?s network is using Active Directory in a Windows 2003 server environment. You are asked to create a login script to have the fur users map a network drive ?F:? drive to the ACCOUNTING server REPORTS share.

Please describe the process you would take to create and implement this network login script

I don't know how to write scripts but I assume it would involve the Net Use command such as:
net use \\accounting\reports

I would then locate each user in AD and assign them the login script in their profile properties.

5) Your company?s network which is using Active Directory in a Windows 2003 server environment. You are informed we are hiring 20 temporary employees who employment will end on 12/31/2007.

You need to ensure these users cannot login to our network after the final day of employment.
How would you setup these user accounts to meet the business requirements?

Again I don't have experience setting people up in AD but do I just set a date in a certain field maybe? THat would seem to be a logical variable to have access to on one of the screens.

 

[SolMiester]

Um, for the 1st, does e-mail (pop) and internet come via proxy service?
with 2nd, the new version needs to be tested befroe release to live environment
3rd, i dont know how to right scripts either, but if and there probably is already a script, i would amend from that.
4th, yes, there is an expiry date field which you could use...

 

[Kelemvor]

These are just taken from a book so all the information is provided. So I'd assume no for the proxy stuff.

 

[Stiganator]

5) AD has time ranges for user logon, just set the last day as the limit.

4) You wouldn't want to assign it to each profile, that is why they have Group Policies, you would insert the script into the Accounting OU policy. That way it is applied to anyone in that group and you don't have to do anything but add the user to that group.

3) Schedule downtime, then ghost the server. Stop the service, uninstall old version if necessary, install new version. Reboot to make sure the service autostarts. Push out client updates if necessary.

If its ganked ghost the old setup back on and read up some more.