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by iamruthann

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You are the administrator for a company named XYZ Engineering. Recently, XYZ Engineering upgraded their Windows NT 4.0 Primary Domain Controllers and Backup Domain Controllers of the XYZEngineering Domain to Windows 2000 Server Domain Controllers. The new Domain name is XYZEngineering.org. The existing workstations used by the employees are a mix of Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT 4.0 Workstations, and Windows 95/98 desktops. Although the goal of XYZ Engineering is to eventually phase outall Windows NT 4.0 Workstations and Windows 95/98 desktops, budgetary constraints have forced the administrators to manage this mixed environment until next year.

The IT Management staff, however, wants to begin controlling the appearance of all employee desktops regardless of the desktop operating system in use. As a result, the IT management staff is relying on you to curtail the use of Registry editing tools, deny network browsing capabilities, and identify which Windows applications are able to run on all Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 95/98 workstations by utilizing the strengths of system policy capabilities of Windows 2000 Server.

What must you do to enforce the directives of the IT Management staff?

The exam prep software says the correct answer is Use the PolEdit.exe utility provided with Windows 2000 Server to create one policy file for the Windows 2000 Professional workstations, one policy file for the Windows NT 4.0 workstations, and onepolicy file for the Windows 95/98 machines.

From what I read on the MS site the correct answer is System Policy Editor (poledit.exe) is a Windows NT 4.0-style utility for setting System Policy for Windows NT 4.0 clients, and for setting Windows NT 4.0-style System Policy for Windows 2000 clients. For Windows 2000 clients, it is best to use Group Policy instead of System Policy.

What is the correct choice?

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

The first answer is more correct as it addresses the Win9x machines too. The second answer goes into more detail but misses some of the vital information for answering the question.

Its pretty important in the MCSE exams to answer exactly the question and not read into it anything else! Its a classic trick with them...

Cheers,
Tim.

by iamruthann

Thanks....I should have been a little bit more specific with my answer poledit.exe can be used for NT and 98 clients. My difficulty with the exam prep software's answer was using poledit.exe for the Win 2K policy creation. Why wouldn't you use the Group Policy for the Win2k clients and the Poledit.exe for the NT and 98 clients?

by timthetoolman

Hi,

In order to answer these kinds of questions its pretty important to give us the exact wording of the question and answer.

The problem you could be having is missing a vital word that changes the situation. Your paraphrasing the question back to us means that you're giving us your views...and not the question.

Can you post the exact question/answer here?

Cheers,
Tim.

by iamruthann

Sorry, this is the first time I have posted a question to a forum. Below is the exact wording of the question see next area for answers.
Question ID #99
You are the administrator for a company named XYZ Engineering. Recently, XYZ Engineering upgraded their Windows NT 4.0 Primary Domain Controllers and Backup Domain Controllers of the XYZEngineering Domain to Windows 2000 Server Domain Controllers. The new Domain name is XYZEngineering.org. The existing workstations used by the employees are a mix of Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT 4.0 Workstations, and Windows 95/98 desktops. Although the goal of XYZ Engineering is to eventually phase out all Windows NT 4.0 Workstations and Windows 95/98 desktops, budgetary constraints have forcedthe administrators to manage this mixed environment until next year.

The IT Management staff, however, wants to begin controlling the appearance of all employee desktops regardless of the desktop operating system in use. As a result, the IT management staff is relying on you to curtail the use of Registry editing tools, deny network browsing capabilities, and identify which Windows applications are able to run on all Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 95/98 workstations by utilizing the strengths of system policy capabilities of Windows 2000 Server.

What must you do to enforce the directives of the IT Management staff?

by natcat

I can understand your confusion about the answer.
And you are correct, poledit.exe should be used for nt and 98 systems and not 2000 machines.
What you need to do is post ALL the given answers to the question so that someone can explain why the answer they gave is the BEST one out of the alternatives.
The trouble with the MCSE exams is that you have to pick the best answer out of the lot, ie the one that is not TOTALLY incorrect.

by iamruthann

System would only allow 1930 characters so here are the answers for QID 99.
A . Do nothing. Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95/98 system policies will work by default as they are converted in the upgrade process from the Windows NT 4.0 PDCs and BDCs.B . Use the Group Policy capabilities of Windows 2000 Server to enforce the IT Management staff's directives for the Windows 2000 Professional workstation. Use the PolEdit.exe utility provided with Windows 2000 Server to create system policies specific to Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95/98 desktops.

C*. Use the PolEdit.exe utility provided with Windows 2000 Server to create one policy file for the Windows 2000 Professional workstations, one policy file for the Windows NT 4.0 workstations, and one policy file for the Windows 95/98 machines.

D . Implement a Group Policy that will defines the IT Management staff's directives for all Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 95/98 workstations.

Explanation:
Windows 2000 Professional documentation
Windows 2000 Advanced Server Documentation
Technical Documents
Windows 2000 Resource Kits
Microsoft Seminar On-Line
Group Policies have registry settings that are unique to Windows 2000 Professional Machines. For Windows NT 4.0 Workstations and Windows 95/98, the PolEdit.exe utility provided by Windows 2000 Server has templates with settings specific to these two desktop operating systems (winnt.adm and windows.adm, respectively).

by timwalsh

Another possibility: Exam prep software is not infallible. But without the other available choices, we can't help you.

As the other answers suggest, this is probably a matter of this answer is the most correct of the choices given, even if it isn't the best way to do it.

by timthetoolman

Hi Ruth,

I think the answer is in the last line of the question...

"by utilizing the strengths of system policy capabilities of Windows 2000 Server"

Win2K's group policies aren't system policies.

These questions can be tricky. More oftenthan not, you'll be presented with two equally likely candidates but the specific wording is what you need to focuss on.

Good luck with your exams!
Cheers,
Tim.

by natcat

Can you send a comment with only the explaination for the answer.

what prep software did you use ?

by iamruthann

Explanation:
Windows 2000 Professional documentation
Windows 2000 Advanced Server Documentation
Technical Documents
Windows 2000 Resource Kits
Microsoft Seminar On-Line
Group Policies have registry settings that are unique to Windows 2000 Professional Machines. For Windows NT 4.0 Workstations and Windows 95/98, the PolEdit.exe utility provided by Windows 2000 Server has templates with settings specific to these two desktop operating systems (winnt.adm and windows.adm, respectively).

This was from Beachfront Quizzer-which I would not reccommend to anyone else.

Transcender, Self Test, and Exam Cram offer much better products.

Regards,
Ruth Ann

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