Practice test for MCSE 2000 Exam 70-210 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional:
Section A: Installing Windows 2000 Professional

12. After you have obtained the MCSA and MCSE certifications, you start a new job as a network administrator at a company called MCSA Corporation. On the first week of your new job, your manager assigns a new project for you. The main aim of the project is to upgrade all computers that are running Microsoft Windows 98 operating system to Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional. Although all computers meet Windows 2000 Professional minimum hardware requirements, you are not sure whether their hardware are compatible with Windows 2000. Which of the following allows you to check whether the existing computer hardware inside those Windows 98 PCs are compatible with Windows 2000 Professional? (Choose three)

A. Run winnt32.exe /checkupgradeonly from the installation CD.
B. Run Windows 2000 Readiness Analyzer.
C. Use setup manager to create an unattend file, then modify the WIN9XUPG section, after that run winnt32.exe /unattend:answer_file.
D. Run winnt32.exe /reportonly
E. Run winnt32.exe /checkupgradeonlyQ from the installation CD
F. Run mcse-ready.exe from the installation CD

You can run winnt32.exe /checkupgradeonly from the installation CD to generate a report that showing which hardware, software and device drivers are not compatible with Windows 2000. Alternatively you can use the Readiness Analyzer tool to analyse your computer and then generate a report about the potentially incompatible hardware devices and software applications. This tool has the advantage over the winn32.exe /checkupgradeonly command as it does not require you to have the Windows 2000 CD, that means, you can check whether your hardware will be supported by Windows 2000 before you purchase any Windows 2000 operating systems. To download this tool, go to
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/upgrade/compat/ready.asp. In addition, you can create an unattend file using setup manager and then modify the WINXUPG section as follow:
[Win9xUpg]
ReportOnly=Yes
SaveReportTo="report_file"
where report_file is the location that you want to save your file.
After that you can run Winnt32.exe /unattend:answer_file where answer_file is the file you save when unattend file is created In the setup. The winnt32.exe/checkupgradeonlyQ is used in Windows NT 4.0 system but not Windows 98. You can use that command to generate a compatibility report and then store it in to a file named Winnt32.log inside your Windows Directory. There is no such program called mcse-ready.com, hence F is an incorrect answer. Read the links below for further information about checking Windows 2000 compatibility.

Answer: A,B,C

References:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/win9xmig/migext_06lv.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/deploy/upgrdmigrate/winupgrd.asp

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29. You are the network administrator of a company called MCSE 2000 Inc. MCSE 2000 Inc. has 500 Windows 2000 Professional computers and 10 Windows 2000 Advanced Server computers. Recently, MCSE 2000 Inc bought 50 new computers that are compatible with Windows 2000 operating systems. For the 50 computers, 45 of them are from Compaq which have same hardware specifications, however, 5 of them are from HP in which all of them have different mass-storage disk controllers. To deploy the Windows 2000 Professional to all computers, you plan to use disk image together with the sysprep.exe program which can be located at the original Windows 2000 Professional CD. How can you accomplish your task with the least amount of effort and time?

A. For the Compaq computer, create one disk image with sysprep.exe without pnp switch. For HP computer, create one disk image with sysprep.exe with pnp switch.
B. For the Compaq computer, create one disk image with sysprep.exe with pnp switch. For HP computer, create one disk image with sysprep.exe without pnp switch.
C. For the Compaq computer, create one disk image with sysprep.exe with pnp switch. For HP computer, create one disk image with sysprep.exe with pnp switch.
D. For the Compaq computer, create one disk image with sysprep.exe without pnp switch. For HP computer, use the manual install as all of them are with different mass storage controllers.

Some hardware devices are critical during startup such as Mass Storage Controllers that must be compatible with the disk used by the original computer. Since all HP computers are come with different mass storage controllers, we cannot create an image and then use it with all other computers. Although we can use the latest version of Sysprep(1.1) which has the ability to deploy one disk image to other computers that have the different mass storage controllers, that version is not in our Windows 2000 Professional original CD.

Answer: D

References:

http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/deploy/depopt/deployop.asp - read Duplicating onto Computers with Different Mass Storage Controllers

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30. You are the network administrator for a company that has 1000 Windows 2000 Professional computers and 15 Windows 2000 Advanced Server computers. Your company just bought 50 new computers that are compatible with Windows 2000 operating systems. All PCs have same hardware, where each of them has two Processors and two video cards, etc. To deploy Windows 2000 Professional to all new PCs, you decided that disk-imaging solution should be used, this solution will require you to install one of the new computers with all the necessary software and drivers, and then create a standard image for the deployment. You start by installing a fresh copy of Windows 2000 Professional to a reference computer and then install all the necessary standard software. Everything is working fine after the installation except that the system is using standard PC device driver instead of the MPS Multiprocessor PC driver. How can you make sure that the MPS Multiprocessor PC driver is installed during the deployment of Windows 2000 Professional to all of the new computers?

A. Include the -pnp parameter for Sysprep.exe when you rerun that utility.
B. Include the -nosidgen parameter for Sysprep.exe when you rerun that utility.
C. On device manager, update the standard PC device driver to MPS multiprocessor PC
driver and then create an image using sysprep without pnp switch.
D. Processor is a critical hardware, hence sysprep 1.1 is needed in order to deploy the image.

Sysprep can be used to deploy Windows 2000 to computers that are either with same or different hardware specifications. Computer with different hardware specifications, for instances, modems, display adapters, and other hardware devices that are not critical during startup, the -pnp switch can be used with sysprep.exe to force the hardware detection at time when the installation is taking place. For this case, all computers are identical, hence pnp switch is not needed as we can just add the MPS Multiprocessor PC drivers to the reference PC and then copy the image to the rest of the new computers. For more information about sysprep, follow the reference links.

Answer: C

References:
http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/deploy/depopt/deployop.asp

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31. You are the network administrator of a company that has 1000 Windows 2000 Professional computers and 15 Windows 2000 Advanced Server computers. Your company just bought 100 new computers that are compatible with Windows 2000 but each of them is equipped with different hardware specifications. To deploy Windows 2000 Professional to all new PCs, you decided to use the disk-imaging solution, that solution will require you to install one of the new computers with all the necessary software and drivers, and then create a standard image for deployment. You start by installing a fresh copy of Windows 2000 Professional to one of the new computers and then log on to that computer as local administrator to install all necessary standard software. After that, you run setup manager to create the sysprep.inf file. Next, you copy the sysprep.exe and setuppcl.exe to the C:\Sysprep folder. After that, you run sysprep.exe and then run your disk image utility to create a disk image of your computer. Finally, you copy your disk image to 10 of the PCs and then reboot the computer. However, most of the computers are not working properly after the installation, furthermore, their desktop settings are different than the original computer. What should you do to remedy these problem? (Choose two)

A. Copy Sysprep.inf to the C:\Sysprep folder.
B. Copy the Administrator profile to the Default User profile and then grant permissions to
the Everyone group for that profile so that they can use that profile.
C. Include the -pnp parameter for Sysprep.exe when you rerun that utility.
D. Include the -nosidgen parameter for Sysprep.exe when you rerun that utility.

Most of the computers are equipped with different hardware specifications, hence the reason why they failed to start is likely caused by the hardware drivers that are not installed properly. Normally, the mini setup should be able to detect the new or different plug and play devices on the computer that you deploy the disk image (hardware that is different than the computer you create the image). However, in some cases, the hardware they have may need to be re-enumerated in order to install them properly. In addition, there might be some legacy hardware in the computer which will not be added by the mini-setup wizard as the mini-setup wizard only able to detect plug and play hardware. We can, however, add the -pnp parameter when we run sysprep to force the mini-setup wizard to detect legacy device detection or to re-enumerate the devices on the destination computers. Some computers are installed properly, but their desktop setting is different than the one you have customised, this is because the profile you saved is in your own profile directory which is only accessible if you log on as administrator. To allow all other users to use that profile, you have to copy your profile to default user profile and then grant permission to everyone so that any new user log on will be able to copy the default user profile to their user profile directory. If sysprep.inf is not in the same directory with your sysprep.exe and other program files, you will not be able to automate the mini-setup wizard, however, you are still allow to install the windows 2000 Professional by manually provide the information needed by the mini-setup wizard. For this case, the question never say where you save your sysprep.inf file and no indicator about the mini-setup failed to install Windows 2000, hence sysprep.inf is already in the right location. The -nosidgen informs Setupcl.exe not to generate new SIDs on reboot, that is nothing to do with the problem.

From Microsoft Documentation:
-pnp
The Mini-Setup wizard will automatically detect new or different plug and play devices on the destination computer and disable those that were used on the master computer but not found on the destination computer; however, you may want to use the -pnp switch to enable legacy device detection or to re-enumerate the devices on the destination computer. Using this switch adds a few extra minutes to the end-user's experience in order to do a complete hardware redetection.

Answer: B,C

References:
Windows 2000 Resources Kits Deployment Tools Help, Sysprep Syntax.
http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/deploy/depopt/deployop.asp

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