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MCTS: Monitoring Computers

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






2. 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:






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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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 ______.






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






11. 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






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






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






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






15. The log files are contained in two subnodes:






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. You can create two types of subscriptions:






25. 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:






26. This Windows log contains events generated by applications.






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






28. Windows Logs contains five subnodes:






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






30. ______ tracks a computer's stability.






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






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






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






34. 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:






35. 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:






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






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






38. 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.






39. 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:






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






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






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






43. The wecutil ______ parameter deletes a subscription.






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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: