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MCTS: Monitoring Computers

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






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






3. 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:






4. ______ tracks a computer's stability.






5. 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 ______.






6. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. You can open Event Viewer from within ______ by selecting the DiagnosticsEvent Viewer node.






14. 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:






15. Network Monitor can capture only traffic that the ______ receives.






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






17. To trigger a task when an event occurs - follow one of these three procedures:






18. 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.






19. You can create two types of subscriptions:






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






21. To open Reliability Monitor - right-click the ______ node in Server Manager and then click View System Reliability.






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






23. This Windows log contains events generated by applications.






24. 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.






25. To use a Data Collector Set - right-click it - and then choose ______.






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






27. 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






28. 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.






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






30. 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:






31. 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






32. 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:






33. 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:






34. The log files are contained in two subnodes:






35. ______ gather system information - including configuration settings and performance data - and store it in a data file.






36. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. This Windows log contains auditing events that Windows adds when a user accesses or attempts to access a resource that has been configured for auditing.






46. Event forwarding uses ______ or ______ to send events from a forwarding computer to a collecting computer.






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






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






49. 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:






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