050-681

(050-681) Network Management

SYNOPSIS • NetWare 6 CNE ^vs

Novell’s exam 050-681 (course 3004), “Novell Network Management: NetWare 6â€‌ is one of the core requirements for the Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) 6 certification. This exam is designed for entry-level network administrators who “perform the network management tasks that are most common yet critical to administrators of LANs and WANs.â€‌ There is no specific prerequisite for this exam but Novell recommends that candidates “have a good understanding of network implementation, support, media, topologies, protocols, and standards.â€‌

This exam is priced at $125, $55.50, or $27.50 depending on the region in which it's taken.
Most North American and European and some Asia Pacific countries fall under the highest price tier. The exam may be taken from Pearson Vue or Thomson Prometric.

The passing score is 530. This exam is a form test (traditional), consisting of 66 questions, and has a duration of 90 minutes.

The topics covered by this exam include:

The 6-Step Network Troubleshooting Model and preparing for network problem recurrence

• Documenting a network
• Navigating Novell support
• Troubleshooting Novell Client connectivity
• Remote Novell Client software updates
• NetWare 6 TCP/IP components
• DHCP, NAT, DNS, SLP
• Migrating from IPX to IP
• NetWare 6 server management utilities
• NetWare Remote Manager
• Optimizing LAN communications, the disk and file system, and memory
• Public Key Cryptography and Novell Certificate Server
• eDirectory replication, synchronization, monitoring, administration, and schema extension
• iMonitor
• ICE and LDIP files
• Server and user licensing
• NLS components, certificates
• NSS
• SMS, SBCON and NWBACK32
• Novell Web Services and Enterprise Web Server
• NetWare 6 migration and upgrade
• NetWare 6 installation

For more information:
http://www.novell.com/training/testinfo/objectives/3004tobj.html