Advanced Novell Network Management: NetWare 6

Review for Second Quiz
 
  1. What motherboard busses are reviewed in the text? Which is described as having three variations?

  2. What are the three disk channel types discussed in the text? Which is most common?

  3. How many processors will NetWare 6 support on a single server? What is a PSM?

  4. What is the minimum recommended RAM for a NetWare 6 server? Assuming your server can handle it, how much RAM are you allowed to put on a NetWare 6 server?

  5. What is the load order of the four standard files that run when a server is booted? (After DOS loads.) At what loadstage are the NCF files processed?

  6. What are the four possible colors an NLM file can appear in on the server console? What do the colors indicate?

  7. What is the two-handed method for entering the server debugger?

  8. What is the command to access a shut down menu for a locked server?

  9. What does the word abend mean?

  10. Abends come in two types, depending on how they are detected. What are the two types?

  11. What is a core dump? Where is it normally stored? What space calculation should you perform to determine if this is possible?

  12. What are the allowed values for the system setting Auto Restart After Abend?

  13. What option is available in NetWare 6 about what is saved in core dumps?

  14. What are the four components of the eDirectory database?

  15. What are the three kinds of synchronization that will affect eDirectory?

  16. What is Novell's recommendation in Chapter 4 for the number of replicas you should have of each partition?

  17. What are the icons that appear beside the two types of unknown objects in eDirectory? What do the icons mean?

  18. When troubleshooting an eDirectory problem, what four log files should you look at on a server?

  19. What utility should you run at a server console to check for communication problems?

  20. What is an NSS pool? How is it different from an NSS partition?

  21. What is overbooking?

  22. How can you add space to an NSS pool? How can you take space away from it?

  23. What are the attributes of an NSS volume that provide more security? What attributes provide better file recovery?

  24. Why might you want to mount a DOS partition as an NSS volume? What nlm makes it possible?

  25. How should you try to resolve a "device not recognized" error in NSS?

  26. What utility is used to correct errors in traditional volumes? What utilities are used with NSS volumes?

  27. What is your recourse if you delete an NSS file, then decide you need it back? What could prevent you from using this recourse?

  28. What is the difference between a SAN and a NAS?

  29. What is a RAID? What levels of software RAID are supported by NSS? Which provides no fault tolerance?

  30. Define the two levels of software RAID supported by NSS.

  31. What size settings are needed when setting up a RAID level 0?

  32. What methods are described in Chapter 6 that provides fault tolerance? What is the difference between them? What size differential problem could exist?

  33. What two configuration files affect how iFolder runs? What do they have to do with iFolder?

  34. What two ports are specified in these files?

  35. How do you manually stop and start iFolder? If these commands do not work, what other commands might be needed?

  36. How do you access the iFolder Management Console?

  37. What is the size limit on files to synchronize in iFolder?

  38. How does the iFolder server know to perform a synchronization?

  39. What are iFolder file maps and dirmaps?

  40. How are browser-only connections different from those using the iFolder client? Explain in terms of threads.

  41. Why might iFolder and iPrint services be in conflict?

  42. What are the two port choices for communication between iFolder and LDAP? What extra configuration choice is needed for one of them?