Microsoft MTA 98-366 Networking Fundamentals Practice Test

Course details

Course topics covers

Understanding network infrastructures (30-35%)

• Understand the concepts of Internet, intranet, and extranet
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN), security zones, firewalls
• Understand local area networks (LANs)
  • Perimeter networks; addressing; reserved address ranges for local use (including local loopback IP), VLANs; wired LAN and wireless LAN
• Understand wide area networks (WANs)
  • Leased lines, dial-up, ISDN, VPN, T1, T3, E1, E3, DSL, cable, and more, and their characteristics (speed, availability)
• Understand wireless networking
  • Types of wireless networking standards and their characteristics (802.11a,b,g,n, including different GHz ranges), types of network security (WPA, WEP, 802.1X, and others), point-to-point (P2P) wireless, wireless bridging
• Understand network topologies and access methods
  • Star, mesh, ring

Understanding network hardware (20-25%)

• Understand switches
  • Transmission speed, number and type of ports, number of uplinks, speed of uplinks, managed or unmanaged switches, VLAN capabilities, Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches and security options, hardware redundancy, support, backplane speed, switching types and MAC table, understand capabilities of hubs versus switches
• Understand routers
  • Transmission speed considerations, directly connected routes, static routing, dynamic routing (routing protocols), default routes; routing table and how it selects best route(s); routing table memory, network address translation (NAT), software routing in Windows Server; Quality of Service (QoS)
• Understand media types
  • Cable types and their characteristics, including media segment length and speed; fiber optic; twisted pair shielded or nonshielded; catxx cabling, wireless; susceptibility to external interference (machinery and power cables); susceptibility to electricity (lightning), susceptibility to interception

Understanding protocols and services (45-50%)

• Understand the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model
  • OSI model; Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) model; examples of devices, protocols, applications, and which OSI/TCP layer they belong to; TCP and User Datagram Protocol (UDP); well-known ports for most used purposes (not necessarily Internet); packets and frames
• Understand IPv4
  • Subnetting, IPconfig, why use Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), addressing, ipv4toipv6 tunneling protocols to ensure backward compatibility, dual IP stack, subnetmask, gateway, ports, packets, reserved address ranges for local use (including local loopback IP)
• Understand IPv6
  • Subnetting, IPconfig, why use IPv6, addressing, ipv4toipv6 tunneling protocols to ensure backward compatibility, dual IP stack, subnetmask, gateway, ports, packets, reserved address ranges for local use (including local loopback IP)
• Understand names resolution
  • DNS, Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), steps in the name resolution process
• Understand networking services
  • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), remote access
• Understand TCP/IP
  • Tools (such as ping), tracert, pathping, Telnet, IPconfig, netstat, reserved address ranges for local use (including local loopback IP), protocols