Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Network Analysis and Optimization - Part 2

Course Code NGE71417

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 fourth 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 three courses in this series.

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Analyze and optimize Windows NT 4.0 servertoserver network traffic to establish an effective enterprise network.
• Identify the network traffic generated in various scenarios in a Windows NT 4.0 environment.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Windows NT Server-to-Server Network Traffic

• Match the processes that generate server-to-server traffic on the Windows NT 4.0 network with their uses.
• Sequence the frames generated during the different phases of the Account synchronization process.
• Sequence the steps in which the Accounts database of the backup domain controller is updated.
• Sequence the steps in which the trusting domain controller adds a trusted domain to establish a trust relationship.
• Sequence the steps used by the trusting domain controller to import trusted accounts.
• Identify the ways in which the group accounts can be used to optimize the trust relationship traffic between the domains.
• Analyze and optimize the traffic generated by browsing in a Windows NT environment.
• Sequence the steps in which traffic is generated when establishing a relationship between the WINS replication partners.
• Identify the maximum number of bytes generated on the network when updating records in the WINS database.
• Identify the best configuration option to optimize the WINS replication traffic for a given situation on the network.
• Sequence the steps involved in the traffic generated by the Directory Replicator service in a Windows NT environment and optimize the Directory Replicator traffic.
• Sequence the steps involved in the process of the DNS replication of the zone information in a Windows NT environment.
• Optimize the DNS server-to-server traffic by altering the default values to the Control parameters.

Unit 2: Windows NT 4.0 Network Traffic

• Identify the set of variables to be considered during the implementation of various network services.
• Identify the formula to speculate the total network traffic in a Windows NT 4.0 environment.
• Identify the traffic generated by the processes of the DHCP service, DHCP lease acquisition traffic, DHCP lease renewal traffic.
• Match the different processes of the domain controllers in a single domain LAN with the network traffic they generate.
• Match the network processes that occur during accounts trusting in a multiple domain LAN with the traffic generated by them.
• Identify the way to reduce the logon validation traffic in a WAN environment.

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).

Media