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MCTS: Monitoring Computers

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1. ______ tracks a computer's stability.






2. Microsoft provides ______ - a powerful protocol analyzer - as a free download.






3. With event forwarding - only these Windows versions can act as forwarding computers:






4. In Win Srvr 2008 and Win Srvr 2008 R2 - you can also simply select the ______ node in the console tree of Event Viewer to confiture the collecting computer.






5. In Task Scheduler - click Create Basic Task in the actions pane. On the Trigger page of the wizard - select ______. Then - specify the Log - Source - and Event ID.






6. To configure a computer running Vista - Win 7 - Win Srvr 2008 - or Win Srvr 2008 R2 to collect events - open a command prompt with administrative privileges. Then - run the following command to configure the Windows Event Collector service:






7. To capture network traffic from a command prompt - switch to the Network Monitor installation folder (C:Program FilesMicrosoft Network Monitor 3 by default) and run the following command:






8. This Windows log contains events forwarded to this computer from other computers.






9. What command should you run to configure a forwarding computer?






10. Computers that have no errors and no new software installations are considered stable and can achieve the maximum system stability index of ______.






11. Custom views are filters that can display events from ______.






12. Event forwarding uses HTTP or HTTPS to send events from a forwarding computer to a collecting computer. Instead of using the standard TCP ports 80 and 443 - HTTP and HTTPS use ports ______ - respectively.






13. This captures all traffic on all network interfaces and saves it to a file named Filename.cap. When you are finished capturing - press ______.






14. This Windows log contains core system events. Other system events are contained with Applications And Services Logs.






15. The wecutil ______ parameter performs the initial configuration required to collect events. If a subscription already exists - the necessary configuration must have already been performed.






16. You can create two types of subscriptions:






17. ______ graphically shows real-time performance data - including processor utilization - network bandwidth usage - and thousands of other statistics.






18. With ______ subscriptions - the forwarding computers contact the collecting computer.






19. To create a custom Data Collector Set - follow these steps:






20. This Windows log contains events generated by applications.






21. Although you can create data collector sets using the Logman tool - creating them using the Data Collector Sets console is easier. You can then run the data collector set by using the following command:






22. You can also use the /inputcapture parameter of NMCap to process an existing capture file.E.g. To read a file named Capture1.cap and write a new capture file containing only HTTP packets - use this command:






23. When you create a custom view - Event Viewer saves it within the ______ node so that you can quickly view the same set of events.






24. To configure Event Forwarding to use HTTPS - create a Windows Firewall exception for TCP port 5986 and run the following command:






25. Windows Server 2008 R2 includes several built-in Data Collector Sets located at Data Collector SetsSystem:






26. Logs processor - disk - memory - and network performance counters and kernel tracing. Use the ______ Data Collector Set when troubleshooting a slow computer or intermittent performance problems.






27. At a command prompt with administrative privileges - run the following command to configure the Windows Remote Management service on the forwarding computer:






28. Because the forwarding computer must have HTTP and possibly HTTPS available - you can attempt to connect to it from the collecting computer by using Windows Internet Explorer






29. The wecutil ______ parameter deletes a subscription.






30. The log files are contained in two subnodes:






31. What command should you run to configure a collecting computer?






32. Present only on computers with wireless capabilities - the ______ Data Collector Set logs the same info as the LAN Diagnostics Data Collector Set - plus info relevant to troubleshooting wireless network connections.






33. Find an example of the event in Event Viewer. Then - right-click the event and click ______. A wizard will guide you through the process.






34. Present only on DCs - the ______ Data Collector Set logs kernel trace data - AD trace data - performance counters - and AD registry configuration.






35. To use a filter capture - type the filter capture in quotation marks after the /capture parameter. For example - the following command captures only DNS traffic:






36. The wecutil ______ parameter displays the status of subscriptions.






37. Logs all the info included in the System Performance Data Collector Set - plus detailed system information. Use the ______ Data Collector Set when troubleshooting reliability problems such as problematic hardware - driver failures - or Stop errors (a






38. With ______ subscriptions - the collecting computer contacts the source computers to retrieve events.






39. This Windows log contains events generated while installing and updating Windows.






40. With event forwarding - only these Windows versions can act as collecting computers:






41. One of the most useful ways to use Task Scheduler is to launch a task in response to a specific event type that appears in Event Viewer. You can respond to events in three ways:






42. To verify that the forwarding computer has the Windows Remote Management listener properly configured - from an elevated command prompt - run the following command:






43. With ______ - you can send events that match specific criteria to an administrative computer - allowing you to centralize event management.






44. The Minimize Bandwidth and Minimize Latency options of Event Subscriptions - both batch a default number of items at a time. You can determine the value of this default by typing the following command at a command prompt:






45. The Reliability Monitor displays data gathered by the Reliability Analysis Component (RAC) - which is implemented using ______ command.






46. After using a Data Collector Set to gather information and then stopping the Data Collector Set - you can view a summary by right-clicking the Data Collector Set and then choosing ______.






47. Using event forwarding requires you to configure both the forwarding and collecting computers. First - you must start the following services on both the forwarding and collecting computer:






48. Check the Applications And Services LogsMicrosoftWindowsEventlog-ForwardingPluginOperational event log and verify that the subscription was created successfully. Event ID 100 indicates a new subscription whereas Event ID ______ indicates a subscripti






49. To run a file named Respond.exe whenever event 177 is published in the System event log - run the following command:






50. The wecutil ______ parameter defines subscription configuration. To specify a custom interval for a subscription - run the following commands: ______.