(Sample) MCSE 2003 MISC Exam Questions and Answers

70-291 level questions

Q:
Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
What is this and what is it mostly for?
(partial) A: SUS?

Q:
You are one of the domain administrators for your company. Your company's network consists of two Active Directory domains named bcdtrain.com and research.bcdtrain.com.
For a computer named DNS-A, which is one of the computers running Windows Server 2003 that is joined to bcdtrain.com, you have configured recovery options for the Domain Name System (DNS) service to restart the computer if the service fails more than twice. You have also configured the service to send a message before restarting the computer.
One morning, another administrator was logged on to a computer running Windows Server 2003 with the local Administrator account. This computer, which is named SRV-10, is joined to research.bcdtrain.com. The administrator reports to you that he was working on a file that is stored in a shared folder on DNS-A, but he lost the changes that he had made to the file because DNS-A was restarted. You determine that the DNS service had failed on DNS-A, but the administrator had not been notified that the computer was restarting.
What is the most likely reason that the administrator did not receive the notice?
The administrator is logged on to SRV-10 with a local account rather than with a domain account.
SRV-10 is joined to a different domain than the one to which DNS-A is joined.
The Messenger service is disabled on SRV-10.
The Alerter service is disabled on DNS-A.
A:
The most likely reason that the administrator did not receive the notice is that the Messenger service is disabled on the server at which the administrator is working. The Messenger service is disabled by default on computers running Windows Server 2003, and messages sent by other computers to a computer on which the Messenger service is disabled will not be displayed.
It is not likely that the administrator did not receive the notice because the administrator is logged on to SRV-10 with a local account rather than with a domain account. When you configure the recovery options of a service to send a message before restarting the computer, the message is sent to all computers for which a connection to the server being restarted exists. It does not matter whether a user is logged on to the computer with a local account or a domain account.
It is not likely that the administrator did not receive the notice because SRV-10 is joined to a different domain than the one to which DNS-A is joined. As noted, the message is sent to all computers for which a connection to the server being restarted exists. It does not matter to which domain each computer is joined.
It is not likely that the administrator did not receive the notice because the Alerter service is disabled on DNS-A. The Alerter service is responsible for sending notices for alerts that you configure by using the Performance Logs and Alerts console. When an alert fires, the Performance Logs and Alerts service generates the appropriate network messages, but the Messenger service must be enabled and running to receive the messages.

Q:
You are creating a procedures document for your company's server administrators. As part of this document, you are defining the recommended settings for each service that is installed by default on a computer running Windows Server 2003. On one server, you notice that the HTTP SSL service is disabled, and you want to document the server configurations for which it should be enabled.
For which other service must you ensure that the HTTP SSL service is running?
IIS Admin Service
Application Layer Gateway Service
WebClient Service
World Wide Web Publishing Service
A:
You must ensure that the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure Sockets Layer (HTTP SSL) service is running to support the World Wide Web Publishing Service. Windows Server 2003 is the first version of Windows that includes the HTTP SSL service. This service allows the Internet Information Services (IIS) to accept requests for SSL connections. The HTTP SSL service must be running whenever the World Wide Web Publishing Service is running on a computer running Windows Server 2003.
You do not need to ensure that the HTTP SSL service is running to support the IIS Admin Service. The IIS Admin Service provides an interface between the metabase and administration tools used to configure Internet-related services such as the World Wide Web Publishing Service, the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service, and e-mail services hosted by IIS. IIS uses the metabase as a data store for its configuration information. The IIS Admin Service also provides an interface between the registry and administration tools used to configure Internet- related services.
You do not need to ensure that the HTTP SSL service is running to support the WebClient Service. If you have Windows-based applications that need to access files on a Web site, you can enable the WebClient service to allow these applications to use the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol to access and update files on a Web site. WebDAV is an extension to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol.
You do not need to ensure that the HTTP SSL service is running to support the Application Layer Gateway Service. The Application Layer Gateway Service works in conjunction with the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) and Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) services to manage Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ports.

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