MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-291: Implementing, Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure Study Guide

Tina, a network engineer for 123, Inc. corporation, is assigned the job of segmenting the company s internal network IP address scheme into five new networks from the current one network in place now. Four of the networks will be client broadcast domains and the fifth network will be the server network, consisting of all servers. The server network will continue to use their current IP addresses, whereas all other networks will have to change. The network consists of a native Windows Server 2003 domain with the Exchange 5.5 server being the only NT 4.0 server left in the environment because of some older applications build on top of this platform that are not ready for Exchange 2000. All clients run Windows XP on their desktops. Being very careful to prevent down time, Tina does her homework and gathers all the needed brainpower into a conference room to discuss possible problems and best practices for accomplishing the company s goals. She pulls together a member from each team, one from Systems Engineering, Desktop Support, Security, Application Support, and another from Network Engineering to put together an appropriate plan. She goes around the table and asks each group member what they will need to do in order to make this happen without causing unnecessary downtime. Here are their responses:
Systems Engineering [Chad] We will need to create a new DHCP scope for each new network and assign it the appropriate...