3.3 Given the manufacturer's documentation for the network adapter, install, configure, and resolve hardware conflicts for multiple network adapters in a token-ring or Ethernet network.

In order to answer the questions correctly, you should remember the information on the following table.

To see the IRQs in Windows 95 system, click the System icon on Control Panel, and then click my computer icon, following by click Properties on the Device Manager tab. You will see the IRQ configuration of your Windows 95 computer.

On some computers (Compaq), several devices can share the same IRQ number. It will solve the big problem of IRQ conflict. However, it is a Microsoft exam and not a Compaq exam, so, you should know which kind of device corresponds to which port.

Although there are 15 IRQs you should remember, that for the Networking Essentials exam, IRQ 3, 4, 5 and 7 are most important. In most cases, a network card conflicts with the devices using these IRQs. Because IRQ 0, 1, 2, 8, 9, 14 are used by system devices, you cannot assign new devices to these IRQs.

Exam tips: you will find IRQ 10,11 and 15 are available in most cases. If Microsoft ask you to which IRQ you can install your network card or other device, look for these three IRQs on the answer choices first. If they don’t have any other devices use these IRQs, IRQ 10, 11 or 15 in the list of choices it should be the correct answer.

For FTQ 3.3.2, if you have wrong I/O port, it cannot initialize the software correctly. Therefore, when you encounter the similar scenario as in FTQ 3.3.2, there are two possibilities. If you are sure the connection is firm, C is the correct answer. If you came to the office one morning and find your computer cannot connect to the network and you are sure you don’t change any configuration on the network. At this time, D is the correct answer. But anyway, if you don’t setup the wrong I/O port correctly, you cannot initialize the driver software successfully.

For FTQ 3.3.5, Winipcfg is just the win95 version of ipconfig on NT or win98. Releasing or renewing the IP address will not do any help. Release and renew two options are basically used for DHCP to change the IP address of the client. D is also wrong because our computer is not such smart. There is no magic for a network card supports two kind of transmission speeds. They are basically two NICs that share some caches and electronic components. So you need to reinstall the NIC driver to support the different transmission speed.