Novell’s exam 50-682 (course 3005), “Advanced Novell Network Management: NetWare 6” is one of the core requirements for the Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) 6 certification. This exam is designed for mid to advanced-level network administrators who implement the advanced management tools, utilities and web services of NetWare 6. There is no specific prerequisite but exam 50-681, “Novell Network Management:NetWare 6” is a logical exam to have passed.

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 548. This exam is a form test (traditional), consisting of 75 questions, and has a duration of 90 minutes.

The topics covered by this exam include:

• Preparing and performing a server migration to NetWare 6
• Novell licensing
• Identifying troubleshooting tools and resources
• Identifying server hardware and operating system components
• Troubleshooting and resolving NetWare server issues, critical server abends and server communication issues
• eDirectory databases, processes and troubleshooting steps
• Partition management
• Health checks
• NSS volume administration, VCU
• Storage Area Networks and network attached devices
• iFolder
• NSC solutions, NCS cluster configuration and cluster management
• Assigning nodes to a resource
• Start, Failover and Fallback modes
• Viewing and editing load and unload scripts