050-696 · Question #81
You recently purchased and installed a SCSI RAID5 disk array in your OES NetWare server to store large user files. You need to configure your system files to automatically load the drivers on boot…
The correct answer is D. STARTUP.NCF. On OES NetWare, STARTUP.NCF is the initialization file that loads disk drivers and storage-related modules before the main server environment is established, making it the correct place to add SCSI RAID driver load commands.
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- ARAID . NCF
- BSERVER.EXE
- CCONFIG . SYS
- DSTARTUP.NCF
- ESTARTUP.CFG
- FAUTOEXEC . BAT
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On OES NetWare, STARTUP.NCF is the initialization file that loads disk drivers and storage-related modules before the main server environment is established, making it the correct place to add SCSI RAID driver load commands.
RAID.NCF is not a standard NetWare system file - it does not exist as part of the NetWare boot process.
SERVER.EXE is the NetWare kernel executable itself and should not be edited - it is a binary, not a configuration file.
CONFIG.SYS is a DOS configuration file that loads DOS device drivers and is not used by NetWare to load its own storage drivers.
STARTUP.NCF is executed by SERVER.EXE during the earliest phase of the boot process, before volumes are mounted and before AUTOEXEC.NCF runs. Because disk drivers must be present before the file system can be accessed, STARTUP.NCF is the designated file for loading storage device drivers such as SCSI RAID controllers.
STARTUP.CFG is not a valid NetWare configuration filename - the correct filename uses the .NCF extension.
AUTOEXEC.BAT is a DOS batch file that runs before SERVER.EXE is launched and cannot load NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) or NetWare-specific drivers.
Concept tested: NetWare STARTUP.NCF for loading disk drivers at boot
Source: https://www.novell.com/documentation/oes/pdfdoc/server_netware/server_netware.pdf
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