No Way Not Likely Likely Probably Guaranteed 1) You have a Mac user that just upgraded to 10.5 and they want to be able to print to the networked Xerox printer in the office. You need to set the laptop up to print to the private IP of the Xerox printer. 2) The client has 1 Linux server, 2 Windows servers, and a Linux PBX with Asterisk. The problem is the Asterisk server can't get any VoIP RTP packets outside the intranet. You need to adjust the Cisco Pix firewall to pass RTP packets to the asterisk box. 3) Their e-mail and website is down because their DNS name servers are down. You need to recreate the zone files from scratch and move them to a company Linux/BIND setup right now. 4) A perl script that access a MSSQL server on a private network onsite wasn't Y2K compliant and they need it fixed. You have to change the perl script to display the years correctly. 5) The Windows server that held their only copy of AD has completely died with no backups. All workstations are still ok. You need to order a new server ASAP and setup a new domain and join all the workstations. There are 50 workstations. 6) A custom ASP system written in 1998 has stopped e-mailing notifications to the company after the host was upgraded to Windows Server 2003. You learned that the .net libarary it was using is no longer around and unsupported so you need to change all the code that does any emailing to a new .net function. 7) The Novell Netware 6 server had bad memory. eDir/NDS was seriously screwed up last time it crashed. You need to boot the server without eDir support and run a full dsrepair to get things running again. 8) The client is tired of their Exchange server server crashing and has decided to move their email to Google's hosted Apps for your Domain. They've never heard of a Domain Registrar before. You need to get the login and pass to their Domain Registrar and setup the MX records, setup the Google hosted domain accounts, as well as all their email accounts, mailing lists, and Outlook clients at the office. 9) You have a Linux server with a custom IPTABLES firewall script. The customer is having bad problems with employee torrents hogging all the bandwidth and you've suggested they throttle torrents down to 1k/sec instead of trying to block it all. You need to configure the existing script, which has examples, to block all torrent connections inbound and outbound and show the customer that it's working in real time. 10) The client has a mixed PC/Mac environment with a Linux firewall connected to the T1 through a PCI serial card. He needs this employees to be able to work from home so you've suggested a VPN. The Linux firewall needs a new kernel, patched PPTP, and to be setup and tested to work with MPPE-128 for both Mac's and PC's. 11) You have a PHP script on a Windows server that connects to the Windows AD server and pulls up a list of email addresses from a given OU. That OU has moved and the user account used to authenticate to the Windows LDAP services has been deleted. You need to get it all working again in a few hours. 12) You're boss isn't with you today and the client has asked you if you'd like to do a little work after hours off the VTech clock on his computers at the office. 13) A client has called you to complain that he can no longer use his Internet access. After talking to him a bit you've learned he is biggy backing off his neighbors wireless and doesn't really understand what he's doing. You need to politely explain to him what's going on and why they password protected their access point. Will you be able to explain that to him nicely and have him call back for future help? 14) A client has called you in to setup a WiFi 802.11 network at their office. You purchase the equipment and head over at the designated time arriving 5 minutes early. How sure are you that you will be able to setup the access point in a secure fashion on the existing network and setup all PC and Apple computers on the network that they ask you to.
