Configuring Network Access
BackBy — December 27, 2007
These questions are based on 70-648 – TS: Upgrading Your MCSA on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008, Technology Specialist.
Objective: Configuring Network Access
Sub-Objective: Configure Remote Access
Single Answer, Multiple Choice
You are the network administrator for your company. All servers on the network run Windows Server 2008, and the client computers run Windows Vista and Windows XP Professional. You install a Network Policy Server (NPS) to create and enforce network access policies for client health. You configure the NPS server as a Network Access Protection (NAP) policy server and create a connection request policy to ensure that only remote clients that have the latest updates installed are able to connect to the company's network.
The remote clients running Windows XP Professional report that they are unable to connect to network resources. What should you do to enable Windows XP Professional clients to connect to network resources, with the least administrative effort?
- Upgrade the Windows XP Professional computers to Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 (SP1).
- Upgrade the Windows XP Professional computers to Windows XP Professional SP2.
- Upgrade the Windows XP Professional computers to Windows XP Professional SP3.
- Upgrade the Windows XP Professional computers to Windows Vista.
Answer:
C. Upgrade the Windows XP Professional computers to Windows XP Professional SP3.
Tutorial:
You should upgrade the Windows XP Professional computers to Windows XP Professional SP3. NPS is the Microsoft implementation of a RADIUS server and is used to create and enforce network access policies to authenticate and authorize connection requests. The network access policies can also be used to grant clients access to the network based on their system health. You can also configure an NPS server as a Network Access Protection (NAP) policy server, which evaluates statements of health sent by NAP-capable client computers that want to communicate on the network. NAP is a new set of operating system components included with Windows Server 2008 and is used to verify whether client computers meet administrator-defined requirements for system health. You can configure various types of connection request policies to enable the NPS server to determine whether a specific connection attempt request received from a client should be processed locally. Connection request policies are configured from the Policies node of the Network Policy Server snap-in. A server running Windows Server 2008 is required to deploy NAP. In addition, client computers running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 or Windows XP with SP3 are required.
You should not upgrade the Windows XP Professional computers to Windows XP Professional SP1 or SP2 because NAP servers only support client computers running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 or Windows XP with SP3.
You should not upgrade the Windows XP Professional computers to Windows Vista because this will require more administrative effort than upgrading them to Windows XP Professional SP3.
