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SMS 2003 Certfitcation Question Of The Week

September 28, 2006

Just a friendly reminder, if one of your goals was to get SMS certified by the end of the year, October – the 10th month of the year – starts in a couple days… You are the SMS Engineer for myITforum.com. Your site has a single SMS site. You take your SMS database offline for maintenance and after bringing it back online you notice the sinv.box, the dataldr.box, and the swmproc.box all have thousands of back-logged files in them! The SMS_INBOX_MANAGER component is also marked as...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Contest Winners!

September 13, 2006

The answer to yesterday’s question was A, C, and E. Here are the final scores, this includes anyone that said they wanted to participate, even if they never sent a single response. Alias Total Aaron S. 9 Adrian A. 11 Alex L. 9 Brian M. 19 Dan C. 16 Ernie D. 9 Gordon M. 22 Jacob F. 14 Jaime N. 12 Jeremy G. 24 John S. 14 Kevin C. 15 Mary Ann M. 10 Michael D. 18 Monowar I. 3 Ned D. 21 Randy H. 19 Reed P. 17 Sagar B. 12 Sarah S. 9 Tammy S. 9 Bryan Mc. 12 Carol A. 0 Dave P. 7 David S. 2 Eric D....  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Thirty - Final Question

September 12, 2006

Contest sponsors Actualtests.com SMS Expert myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! Well here we are at the final question of the contest. For those who have stuck it out congrats! Putting up with my wrong answers and erratic posting schedule means you certainly have the patience required to be an SMS engineer. And now for the final question….drum roll please Reed. You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com . The network of your company...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twenty Nine

September 11, 2006

Contest sponsors Actualtests.com SMS Expert myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! A quick note – I hope those that are still following along are really learning something from this and also enjoying the experience. I know I have enjoyed the emails and interactions with everyone. I know it has not been the smoothest process but I don’t think I quite had a grasp on how much work it would really be and the amount of time it would really take...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twenty Eight

September 10, 2006

Contest sponsors Actualtests.com SMS Expert myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com . The SMS hierarchy of your company consists of a single SMS 2003 primary site. The network of your company contains 50 Windows Server 2003 computers and 2000 desktop computers running Windows XP Professional. You are responsible for installing the SMS Advanced Client on all desktop computers. You decide to create a Remote...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twenty Seven

September 10, 2006

Contest sponsors Actualtests.com SMS Expert myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com . The network of your company consists of a single SMS 2003 primary site. You are responsible for implementing a backup and recovery strategy for the SMS site. To increase the performance of the backup task, you decide to include only some specific inbox folders in the backup. You are required to ensure that only Inventory...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twenty Six

September 08, 2006

Contest sponsors Actualtests.com SMS Expert myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com . The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. The SMS site hierarchy consists of a single SMS 2.0 site. The network contains a SQL Server 7.0 computer that stores SMS site database. The company is planning to upgrade the existing SMS sites to SMS 2003 SP1 in advanced security mode and all SMS clients to Advanced...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twenty Five

September 07, 2006

Contest sponsors Actualtests.com SMS Expert myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com . The network of your company consists of a single Active Directory domain with a SMS 2003 SP1 central primary site and two primary child sites. All client computers on the network are configured as SMS Advanced Clients. You want to monitor the status of SMS clients by using the SMS 2003 Client Health Monitoring Tool. You...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twenty Four

September 06, 2006

Contest sponsors Actualtests.com SMS Expert myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com . The SMS hierarchy consists of a single SMS 2.0 SP4 site. The servers on the company network run Windows Server 2003, and all the client computers run Windows XP Professional. The network contains a SQL Server 2000 computer that stores SMS site database. SQL Server database replication is enabled for the SMS 2003 site...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twenty Three

September 05, 2006

Contest sponsors Actualtests.com SMS Expert myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com . The network of your company consists of a single Active Directory domain. The client computers on the network run Windows XP Professional and Windows 2000 Professional. You implement an SMS 2003 hierarchy consisting of a single primary site in your company. You configure the site to use advanced security mode and enable...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twenty Two

September 05, 2006

Contest sponsors Actualtests.com SMS Expert myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com . They have a head office and a single branch office. The SMS 2003 site hierarchy consists of a central site at the head office and a primary child site at the branch office. The client computers in both the offices are configured as Advanced Clients and Legacy Clients. You move a Legacy Client from the branch office to...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twenty One

September 03, 2006

Contest sponsors Actualtests.com SMS Expert myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com . The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. All servers run Microsoft Windows Server 2003. All desktop computers run Windows XP Professional. You install a single SMS site server. You need to discover all the computers on the network, including computers that are not turned on. Which discovery method should...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twenty

September 02, 2006

Test questions sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com. The SMS 2003 site hierarchy consists of a single primary site running SMS 2003 SP1. You are responsible for implementing a backup and recover strategy for the SMS site. You are required to verify the integrity of the SMS site database. You want to run a SQL Server DBCC test to verify that there are no integrity...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Nineteen

September 01, 2006

Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com. The SMS hierarchy consists of a single primary site running SMS 2003 SP1. It also includes the Security Update Inventory Tools with the default settings. You create a package named PatchesPackage using the Security Update Inventory Tool for testing. You setup a test server called TestServer to test the synchronization...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Eighteen

August 31, 2006

Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com. The SMS hierarchy consists of one central site, two primary sites, and six secondary sites, they are all installed with SMS 2003 SP1. All clients are Advanced clients. You create an advertisement to install a new LOB application. You distribute the package to all distribution points. You want to make sure that...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Seventeen

August 30, 2006

Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com. The SMS hierarchy consists of a central site, a single primary site, and one child site (3 servers total). All clients are advanced clients and all servers have all roles enabled. You want to give the Help Desk staff access to be able to include reports in a dashboard that displays the status messages of all components...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Sixteen

August 29, 2006

Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! Please check your email regarding question 13, the answer and scores have been amended! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. Your SMS 2003 hierarchy consists of a central site and a primary child site. You move a computer from the child site to the central site. You assign this computer to the central site. You discover that the computer is unable...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

Question 13

August 28, 2006

There is a debate going on in the forums regarding this question. Please chime in to express your opinion. Please reconsider your answer to Q13. My answer agrees with two of your three parts, but not with the third part. Your answer: C, D, E. My answer: B, C, D. Specifically, we agree on C (Inventry.box--misspelled in the question) and D (Dataldr.box). However, where I proposed B (Sinv.box) as the third part of my answer, you propose E (Colleval.box). I don't think this is correct. Regarding B (Sinv...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Fifteen

August 28, 2006

Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. Your SMS hierarchy consists of a single SMS 2003 SP1 site. myITforum acquires a company that has a single office with an Active Directory domain and a single SMS 2.0 SP4 site. You create a two-way trust relationship between your domain and this new domain. You need to manage SMS for the new environment from myITforum...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

And then there was one....

August 28, 2006

There is only one person that still has a perfect score in the cert contest. Stay tuned and find out very shortly who it is. '> Listen to this article  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Fourteen

August 27, 2006

Test questions sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. Your network consists of a single Active Directory domain. myITforum is planning to implement SMS 2003 SP1. You are analyzing business requirements to decide on the number of SMS sites and the hierarchy. You need to compile a list of criteria on which you will base your decision. Which three criteria should...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Thirteen

August 26, 2006

Test questions sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. The SMS 2003 site hierarchy consists of a single primary site. The site contains both Advanced Clients and Legacy Clients. Hardware and software inventory run on a daily basis. When you open Resource Explorer for a desktop computer, you discover that the last hardware and software scans happened three days...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twelve

August 25, 2006

Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. You are responsible for implementing the backup and recovery strategy for your site. The SMS backup maintenance task is configured to run daily. You store the set of scripts created to help manage your site in a folder named SMS_SCRIPTS in the D drive. You need to ensure that this folder is copied as part of the...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Eleven

August 24, 2006

Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. The SMS 2003 site hierarchy consists of a single primary site named Site1. You are responsible for monitoring client status. You discover that 20 clients are not reporting SMS data in a timely fashion. You need to generate a list that identifies these 20 clients. What should you do? A. Run the SMS Advanced Client...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Ten

August 23, 2006

Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. The SMS hierarchy consists of a primary central site and two primary child sites below the central site. There are two secondary child sites below each primary child site. The SMS Backup Task is enabled to run once a week for the central primary site only. Two days after the last backup, the SMS Executive service...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Nine

August 22, 2006

Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com I am sorry for the late post but I was unavailable until now. Also there are three people who still have a perfect score not just two, Reed is also perfect so far. If you want to discuss the contest or players we now have a forum on myITforum.com, you can check it out here . You are the new SMS administrator for myITForum .com. The SMS 2003 site hierarchy consists of a central primary site and two primary child sites. You do not have...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Eight

August 21, 2006

Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Well it seems that we are only left with two people that still have a perfect score. Ned and Michael, although there are several people who have missed only one. You are the SMS administrator for myITForum .com. All SMS site system roles are enabled. The SMS Advanced Client is installed on all computers. You create a new advertisement to install an update on a group of computers. Two days later the security team in myITForum reports...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Seven

August 20, 2006

Test questions sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. The SMS hierarchy consists of a central site named London and two primary child sites named Paris and Dublin. Both primary child sites are directly below London in the SMS hierarchy. The boundaries of all SMS sites are correctly configured. The SMS Advanced Client is installed on all computers. When you test the roaming feature, you observe that SMS Advanced Clients from London...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Six

August 19, 2006

Test questions sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com. The company network consists of a single Active Directory domain. The SMS Advanced Client is installed on all computers. The company's SMS hierarchy is shown in the exhibit. **MISSING** Every site contains at least one distribution point. Client computers connect to the sites either locally or remotely through a virtual private network (VPN) connection. You need to ensure that...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Five

August 18, 2006

Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com A small request on my behalf before I get to the question. When you send your email with your answer if you could include the letter choice in the subject line or the fist 15 characters of your email's body that would be great. In Gmail I get a preview of the body so if the letter is right at the beginning then I do not have to open the email to see your choice. This makes it a little easier for me to get through all the replies in...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under:

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