| In this chapter, you have learned what WINS is and how it works. In the following exercises, you will practice some of the concepts and methods discussed in this chapter. Exercises 4.1. Installing WINS In this exercise, you will install WINS on your Windows Server 2003 server. Estimated Time: 10 minutes Log on to Windows Server 2003 using the Administrator account or another account that has administrator privileges. Open the Control Panel and then open the Add/Remove Programs applet. The Add or Remove Programs dialog box appears. Click Add/Remove Windows Components on the left side of the Add or Remove Programs dialog box. The Windows Components Wizard dialog box appears. Select Networking Services and click Details. The Networking Services dialog box appears. Select Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) and then click OK. On the next screen that appears, click Next to complete the installation. The Windows Component Wizard prompts you for the Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM if it needs to copy files. When the wizard is finished, it displays a summary window of the changes to be made. Click Finish to complete the installation.
4.2. Configuring a Replication Partner In this exercise, you will configure a replication partner. Estimated Time: 5 minutes Open the WINS manager by selecting Start, Programs, Administrative Tools, WINS. Right-click Replication Partners and select New Replication Partner from the context menu. Enter the server name winstest. You will be prompted to enter the address of the server because it cannot be found on your network. Enter 10.10.10.254 and click OK. You will be returned to the WINS Manager. Click Replication Partners in the left pane. You should see your new replication partner in the right pane.
4.3. Performing a Manual Push Replication In this exercise, you will manually perform a push replication. Estimated Time: 5 minutes Open the WINS manager by selecting Start, Programs, Administrative Tools, WINS. Right-click WINS server and select Start Push Replication. Enter the server name or IP address of the other WINS server and click OK. Select Start for This Partner Only as the replication method. You can select Propagate to All Partners as the other method. Click OK; you will receive a message that the replication request has been queued. Check the event log for a status of the request and to see when it has completed.
4.4. Performing a Manual Pull Replication In this exercise, you will manually perform a pull replication. Estimated Time: 5 minutes Open the WINS manager by selecting Start, Programs, Administrative Tools, WINS. Right-click WINS server and select Start Pull Replication. Enter the server name or IP address of the other WINS server and click OK. When asked to confirm the request, click Yes. You will receive a message stating that the replication request has been queued. Check the event log for a status of the request and to see when it has completed.
Exam Questions | 1. | You are the WINS administrator for LFE Incorporated. You want to be sure to have a reliable backup of your WINS database available in case of problems, but you don't want to manually back up the database every day. What is the best way to automatically back up your WINS database? 
| A. | Purchase a third-party backup utility and schedule nightly backups of the entire server. |
| B. | Use the Windows Scheduler service and configure a WINS Database Backup task. |
| C. | In the WINS manager, specify the backup directory and backup interval. |
| D. | In the WINS manager, specify the backup directory. |
| | 2. | You are the systems administrator for Lost in the Woods Guide Service. You have a Windows Server 2003 server running WINS in your corporate headquarters and another in a branch office. You want the server in the branch office to get a replica of the corporate server's database every two hours. How do you do it?
| A. | Configure the branch WINS server as a push replication partner with a two-hour interval. |
| B. | Configure the branch WINS server as a pull replication server with a two-hour interval. |
| C. | Configure the corporate WINS server as a push replication partner with a two-hour interval. |
| D. | Configure the corporate WINS server as a pull replication server with a two-hour interval. |
| | 3. | You are the systems administrator for a five-location pet food manufacturer. You have a WINS server at all five locations, and you would like them to replicate with each other automatically. How do you do it?
| A. | Configure each WINS server as a replication partner. In the Replication Partner Properties, select Replicate with All Partners. |
| B. | Configure each WINS server as a replication partner. In the Replication Partner Properties, select Replicate Only with Partners. |
| C. | In the Replication Partner Properties, deselect Replicate Only with Partners. The server will automatically replicate with any WINS servers. |
| D. | Install WINS. Any WINS servers on the network will automatically replicate. |
| | | | 4. | You are the systems administrator for LFE Inc., a novelty manufacturing company. You have a large population of Windows NT 4.0 Workstation client computers on your Windows Server 2003 network. You have a new administrator who is trying to learn how WINS works. You want to explain it. By default, which WINS server will a client computer use for resolution?
| A. | The WINS server that responds first to the broadcast request |
| B. | The default WINS server the client receives from DHCP or that is configured in TCP/IP properties |
| C. | The primary WINS server the client receives from DHCP or that is configured in TCP/IP properties |
| D. | The WINS server that is the least number of network hops away |
| | 5. | You are the systems administrator for BT Machines, a heavy equipment manufacturing company. You have a large population of Windows NT 4 Workstation client computers on your Windows Server 2003 network. You are concerned that there are computers coming on the network that have the same NetBIOS name. Which WINS statistic should you check to see if this is the case?
| A. | Unique Conflicts/Sec |
| B. | Total Number of Conflicts/Sec |
| C. | Group Conflicts/Sec |
| D. | Failed Releases/Sec |
| | 6. | You are the systems administrator for BT Machines, a heavy equipment manufacturing company. You have a large population of Windows NT 4 Workstation client computers on your Windows Server 2003 network. You want to quickly check the total number of client computers adding updates to the WINS database. Which parameter should you check?
| A. | Unique Registrations/Sec |
| B. | Total Number of Registrations/Sec |
| C. | Total Number of Renewals/Sec |
| D. | Total Number of Registrations/Sec and Total Number of Renewals/Sec |
| | 7. | You are the systems administrator for Blue Sky Air, and you are training another administrator to assist with maintaining the network. She is having a hard time understanding the different NetBIOS node types and knowing which type of node the new Windows XP Professional computers use. What is the default node type for Windows XP?
| A. | h-node |
| B. | m-node |
| C. | p-node |
| D. | b-node |
| | | | 8. | Now that your new assistant understands the node type used by Windows XP Professional by default, she would like you to help her differentiate the node types. Which of the following statements about node types is accurate?
| A. | h-node and m-node favor WINS servers, but m-node does not have the capability to use broadcasts if the WINS server is down. |
| B. | h-node and b-node favor WINS servers, but b-node does not have the capability to use broadcasts if the WINS server is down. |
| C. | b-node and m-node both favor broadcast resolution first, but b-node can resolve using a WINS server if the host is on another subnet. |
| D. | h-node and p-node both favor WINS servers, but h-node can use a broadcast for name resolution if the WINS server is not available. |
| | 9. | You are the systems administrator for Little Faith Enterprises, a publishing company. You use Windows Server 2003 servers for the corporate headquarters but have a mix of Windows 2000 Professional and Windows NT 4 client computers on the network. You have deployed WINS for backward compatibility, but you are unsure whether WINS is working. What is the best way to find out?
| A. | Using the Performance console, select the WINS server object and the Successful Resolutions/Sec counter. Verify that the counter value is greater than 0. |
| B. | Using the Performance console, select the WINS server object and the Queries/Sec counter. Verify that the counter value is greater than 0. |
| C. | Open the WINS manager, select the server in question, and from the Action menu, select Server Statistics. Verify that the number of Total Queries is increasing. Click Refresh to update the statistics. |
| D. | Open the WINS manager, select the server in question, and from the Action menu, select Server Statistics. Verify that the number of Records Found Under Total Queries is increasing. Click Refresh to update the statistics. |
| | 10. | You are the systems administrator for New Riders Harley Davidson and are installing a WINS server on your Windows Server 2003 server. Your end users are all using DHCP. What is the best way to configure the workstations to use the WINS server?
| A. | Make sure the WINS server is installed on a domain controller. WINS resolution will occur automatically. |
| B. | Modify the DHCP scope options for the WINS server to include the address of the new WINS server. |
| C. | Open the Network applet and open the TCP/IP properties. On the WINS tab, modify the TCP/IP properties to point at the WINS server. Repeat this for each machine. |
| D. | Update the lmhosts file to include the address of the new WINS server. |
| | | | 11. | You are the systems administrator for a three-location car dealership. One location is the headquarters, and the other two are dealerships. You are migrating from a workgroup-based Windows NT 4 network to a Windows Server 2003 network. Each site is connected to the other two using a frame relay connection and a bridge. As part of the migration, you have decided to deploy WINS for the legacy client computers; however, management would like to spend as little as possible. What is the least expensive way to roll out WINS in this environment?
| A. | Install one WINS server on the headquarters network. |
| B. | Install one WINS server on each network. |
| C. | Install a WINS server at headquarters and another for redundancy at one of the dealerships. |
| D. | Install one server on each dealership network and two in the headquarters network for redundancy. |
| | 12. | The WINS service was created to replace which of the following?
| A. | The Domain Name Service |
| B. | The hosts file |
| C. | The lmhosts file |
| D. | The WINS file |
| | 13. | You are the overworked systems administrator for a single-site direct-marketing company. You have two network segments in your building, with servers on both networks, and a Windows Server 2003 server is being used to route between segments. You have a mixture of MS-DOS, Windows 95/98, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, and Windows 2000 Professional computers as client computers in this network. You install WINS on the server, and your DOS client computers are incapable of seeing the servers on the other side of the router. Why can't the DOS client computers see computers across the router?
| A. | DOS does not use a dynamic routing protocol, so it can't see across the router. |
| B. | DOS can't interpret WINS names for resolution. |
| C. | DOS requires a WINS client computer before being capable of interfacing with the WINS server. |
| D. | DOS uses b-node resolution of NetBIOS names. |
| | | | 14. | You are the systems administrator for the Women's Place clothing store. You have six satellite locations all connected with low-bandwidth WAN links. Each location has its own WINS server for name resolution and will need to be replicated to. What is the best configuration for the WINS replication from the corporate WINS server to those in the field?
| A. | Configure a pull replication from the remote servers to the central server and schedule it to occur whenever 100 entries have been added to the table. |
| B. | Configure a push replication from the remote servers to the central server and schedule it to occur whenever 100 entries have been added to the table. |
| C. | Configure a pull replication from the central server to the remote servers and schedule it to occur whenever 100 entries have been added to the table. |
| D. | Configure a push replication from the central server to the remote servers and schedule it to occur whenever 100 entries have been added to the table. |
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Answers to Exam Questions | 1. | D. If you specify the backup directory, the server will automatically back up the WINS database every 24 hours. While you'll likely be using a third-party backup solution for your network, one is not required specifically to back up the WINS database; thus Answer A is incorrect. WINS database backups cannot be scheduled outside of the WINS console; thus Answer B is incorrect. Since WINS will back up the database daily, there is no need to specify the internal; thus Answer C is incorrect. For more information, see the section "Managing and Monitoring WINS." | | 2. | B. Pull replications are triggered by a time interval. For the branch WINS server to get a replica of the corporate WINS database, it would need to be scheduled to pull the information at a two-hour interval. Push replication is not time based, but instead is change based; thus Answers A and C are incorrect. Configuring the corporate office WINS server as a pull partner; would cause WINS replication to occur in the opposite direction than desired; thus Answer D is incorrect. For more information, see the section "Configuring WINS Replication" | | 3. | B. After the WINS servers have been configured as replication partners, they replicate with each other based on the replication configuration. There is no "Replicate with All Partners" option; thus Answers A and C are incorrect. Without performing any additional configuration, you'll get no replication; thus Answer D is incorrect. For more information, see the section "Configuring WINS Replication." | | 4. | C. Because no default WINS server exists (don't confuse it with the default gateway), the answer is C, the primary WINS server. Therefore, Answers A, B, and D are incorrect. For more information, see the section "Configuring NetBIOS Name Resolution." | | 5. | A. The conflicts per second would show you whether you have computers with name conflicts. The Total Number of Conflicts/Sec counter is the sum of the unique and group conflicts per second; thus Answer B is incorrect. The Group Conflicts/Sec counter is the the rate at which group registrations by the WINS server resulted in conflicts with the database. The Failed Releases/Sec counter is the number of failed WINS releases per second. For more information, see the section "Managing and Monitoring WINS." | | 6. | D. If you want to capture all the client computers that are registering with the server and not just new registrations, you need to look at the total for both the Total Number of Registrations/Sec and Total Number of Renewals/Sec; thus Answers A, B, and C are incorrect. For more information, see the section "Managing and Monitoring WINS." | | 7. | A. Windows XP Professional computers use h-node (hybrid) for NetBIOS name resolution; thus Answers B, C, and D are incorrect. This node type favors the WINS server for name resolution but will attempt to resolve the name by broadcast if the WINS server is unavailable. For more information, see the section "Configuring NetBIOS Name Resolution." | | 8. | D. h-node (Hybrid) is the preferred method because it relies on the WINS server before resorting to a broadcast. p-node uses a WINS server but can't use broadcasts for NetBIOS name resolution. m-node tries a broadcast first; thus Answer A is incorrect. b-node uses broadcasts exclusively, which don't cross routers to other subnets; thus Answers B and C are incorrect. For more information, see the section "Configuring NetBIOS Name Resolution." | | 9. | D. Although Answer C is almost a correct answer, the Total Queries includes records not found; thus Answers A, B, and C are incorrect. If all the queries are returning a Records Not Found result, the server probably has a problem. You should make sure that the number of records found (successful queries) is increasing. For more information, see the section "Managing and Monitoring WINS." | | 10. | B. Because this is a DHCP environment, just add/update the WINS option for the DHCP scope. Answer C might work, but it is much more labor intensive than the one-time scope update. Installing WINS on a Domain Controller is certainly possible, but is not going to accomplish anything in this scenario; thus Answer A is incorrect. On a network with a functioning WINS server, there is no reason to use an lmhosts file; thus Answer D is incorrect. For more information, see the section "Installing and Configuring WINS." | | 11. | A. Because this is a bridged network, you need just a single server to provide WINS for each location. A bridged network has only one logical segment. This means that broadcasts will propagate across the WAN connections; thus Answers B, C, and D are incorrect. Although this is not a typical configuration, it may still exist on smaller legacy networks. Although using a single server is not recommended, it would work in this environment, although with no redundancy in the event of a failure. For more information, see the section "Installing and Configuring WINS." | | 12. | C. WINS is a dynamic replacement for the lmhosts file. DNS replaced the hosts file; thus Answers A and B are incorrect. There is no such thing as the WINS file; thus Answer D is incorrect. For more information, see the section "Introduction to WINS." | | 13. | D. DOS can't use WINS because it is limited to a b-node resolution. b-node is a broadcast-only resolution method, and the broadcasts can't cross the router; thus Answers A, B, and C are incorrect. For more information, see the section "Configuring NetBIOS Name Resolution." | | | | 14. | D. For this question, keep two components in mind. The first is the trigger, which occurs when a certain number of entries are added. It is the least bandwidth-intensive mechanism. The second is the direction the information must travel. Answer D is the only one with the correct combination of these factors; thus Answers A, B, and C are all incorrect. For more information, see the section "Configuring WINS Replication." |
Suggested Reading and Resources Davies, Joseph, and Lee, Thomas. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 TCP/IP Protocols and Services Technical Reference. Microsoft Press, 2003. "Deploying Network Services," http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/119050c9-7c4d-4cbf-8f38-97c45e4d01ef1033.mspx. "Technical Overview of Windows Server 2003 Networking and Communications," www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/netcomm.mspx. "Windows Server 2003 Reviewer's Guide," www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/reviewersguide.mspx. Windows Server 2003 Online documentation: "Network Services," www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/entserver/sag_NPStopnode.asp.
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