Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Network Analysis and Optimization - Part 1

Course Code NGE71416

Contents

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

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Description

This is the third course in a seven-part series intended for network support professionals working in a Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 based enterprise environment. The series aims to enable these professionals to pass Microsoft's certification examination 70-68. This series gives participants the opportunity to design, implement, and support the Windows NT Server network operating system in a multidomain enterprise environment.

Audience

This series is intended for IT professionals who will be responsible for supporting Windows NT Server 4.0 in an enterprise environment. In addition, this series aims to enable these professionals to pass Microsoft's certification examination 70-068. Participants should have taken Networking Essentials 2nd Edition (courses 71441-71444) and Supporting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Core Technologies (courses 71410-71413) and the first two courses in this series.

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Analyze network traffic in a Microsoft Windows NT environment.
• Be introduced to Microsoft Network Monitor, a Windows NT network traffic data capturing and analyzing tool.
• Analyze and optimize the client initialization traffic in a Windows NT environment.
• Analyze and optimize the clienttoserver traffic in a Windows NT environment.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Windows NT Network Traffic Analysis

• Identify the benefits provided by network traffic analysis to a network administrator in a Windows NT environment.
• Identify the guidelines to characterize a Windows NT service.
• Identify the features of the elements of network traffic.
• Identify the uses of Microsoft Network Monitor.
• Install the simple version of Microsoft Network Monitor on the Windows NT server.
• Match the Capture Window panes of the Microsoft Network Monitor interface with the data they display.
• Capture the network traffic data with Microsoft Network Monitor.
• Identify the data displayed by the three panes of the Network Monitor Capture Summary Window of Microsoft Network Monitor.

Unit 3: Windows NT Client Initialization Traffic

• Identify the network activities that generate different types of client initialization traffic in a Windows NT environment.
• Identify the function of the two phases that generate traffic in a DHCP client-to-server interaction process.
• Identify the frames that generate network traffic in IP address lease.
• Identify the frames generated in the renewal of the IP address from the DHCP.
• Configure the duration of IP address leases to a specified time limit using the DHCP manager.
• Identify the processes that generate network traffic in a WINS client-to-server interaction.
• Identify the frames generated in the name registration and renewal process.
• Identify the frames generated in the name resolution process.
• Identify the frames generated in the name release process.
• Configure the renewal interval of WINS clients to a specified time limit using the WINS manager.
• Identify the cause of the network traffic in a file session.
• Sequence the steps that take place to establish a file session in a Windows NT environment.
• Identify the frames generated in a session connection.
• Identify the frames generated during session termination process.
• Identify the methods to control the network traffic generated by file sessions in a Windows NT environment.
• Identify the causes of the network traffic generated by logon validation.
• Identify the steps of the two processes that generate traffic while locating a logon server: Broadcasting to NetLogon process. Using WINS process.
• Sequence the network activities that generate traffic while validating the logon request of a Windows 95 and a Windows NT client.
• Identify the methods that determine the number of domain controllers to optimize the logon validation process.

Unit 4: Windows NT Client-To-Server Traffic

• Be introduced to the types of client-to-server traffic generated in a Windows NT environment.
• Identify the definition of client browsing.
• Identify the frame generated in the host announcement process.
• Identify the features of the traffic generated during the retrieval of a browse list.
• Identify the methods used to control the network traffic generated by the client browsing process.
• Identify the causes that generate Domain Name System (DNS) traffic in a Windows NT environment.
• Identify the frames generated in the two-way process of DNS lookup: Client request. Server response.
• Identify the frames generated in the DNS recursive lookup process.
• Identify the methods to optimize DNS traffic in a Windows NT environment.
• Configure the time to live (TTL) for all records of a zone to a specified time limit using DNS Manager.
• Configure TTL for an individual record of a specified zone using DNS Manager.
• Configure TTL for WINS Record to a specified time limit using DNS Manager.
• Identify the causes that generate traffic during intranet browsing.
• Sequence the steps that generate traffic while connecting to a web site.
• Identify the guidelines to optimize intranet browsing traffic.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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