What does the term "attenuation" mean in networking?

Which of the following statements hold true regarding PPTP-based VPN connections?

Some of the VPN client computers are unable to connect with VPN server configured on windows server 2003. It is suspected that client computers are not updated with most recent hotfixes. Which command should be run on clients to check details of all Hotfixes status?

Administrator has installed and configured DHCP server in windows 2003 .He wants to check which processing mode the client sends their MAC address to the DHCP server.Which part of mode should be checked from Network Monitor?

A DHCP server is installed on Windows server 2003 server with a scope from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.200. A client is reserved with address of 192.168.0.150. Later on, a new DHCP server is configured with the same scope.The user whose address was reserved complains that he is unable to receive the same address from DHCP server. What should the network administrator do so that the reserved client gets the same address?

Allen is the network administrator of his company. His network consists of Windows Server 2003. Network clients are using Windows XP and 200 professional computers for connecting the server. IPsec is deployed for a secure network. One of the managers uses VPN over dial-up from his home for connecting the company server. Later on, it is discovered that communication from dial-up is not secured. Identify the causes.

A network consists of one Windows Server 2003 running Enterprise Certificate Server. When a user requests for a new certificate, the request is processed. If, later on, the administrator checks the Event Viewer and views a lot of Certificate errors related to Time and Date and when he opened the Certificate manager he found the Certificate Server down. When he tried to restart, there was the same time and date problem. What does this mean and how can it be corrected?

Sammy the network administrator, installs a Windows Server 2003 as WINS server in his HQ. As his network expands, various branch offices are opened at different locations. HQ and Branches are connected through slow WAN links. Clients at branch generates a lot of lookup traffic for HQ. How should he minimize the lookup traffic between client and server?

The network administrator installed Windows Server 2003 and Enterprise Certificate on the same server, for his network clients running on Windows XP. He enabled the autoenrollment feature so that clients did not need to enter for requesting a new certificate. A lot of error messages were displayed in Event Viewer regarding failure of autoenrollment of the clients. Identify the error.

One SUS server is configured in Windows Server 2003 for updating Win XP clients. All clients are configured for Automatic Updates. All users are able to connect to and download updates from SUS server. But one automatic update client is unable to download update from SUS server. What should be done to update that client without wasting any time?

Which of the following commands can be used to check the integrity of corrupted security database in Windows Server 2003?