MCSE: MCSE on Windows Server 2003 Certification

Exam 70-290

Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment

Exam 70-291

Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

Exam 70-293

Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

Exam 70-294

Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure

Exam 70-270

Installing, Configuring, and Administering Windows XP Professional

Exam 70-297

Designing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure

Exam 70-298

Designing Security for Server 2003 Network

Introduction to Windows 2003 Servers
• Windows unattended setup
• Install and configure server hardware devices
• Configure driver signing options.
• Configuring a network
• Manage servers remotely
• Troubleshooting networks
• Troubleshoot server hardware devices.

Planning and Implementing an Active Directory Infrastructure
• Managing Users, Computers, and Groups
• Planning and Implementing OU structure
• Creating groups, group scopes
• Troubleshoot computer accounts.
• Troubleshoot user authentication issues
• Automatic creation of users, groups and Import user accounts.

User profiles and File Security management
• Planning and implementing user profiles
• Local, Roaming, Mandatory profiles
• NTFS and Fat32 permissions
• MBSA – Hardening servers

Managing and Maintaining a Server Environment
• Monitor file and print servers. Tools might include Task Manager, Event Viewer, and System Monitor.
• Printers and Printer Management
• Troubleshoot print queues.
• Optimize server disk performance
• Implement a RAID solution.
• Volumes and partitions.

Implement an Active Directory service forest and domain structure
• Planning ADC and Child domains
• Install and configure an Active Directory domain controller.
• Plan and Manage an Active Directory site
• Configure replication schedules.
• Configure site link costs.
• Configure site boundaries.
• Plan and Manage Global Catalogue

Managing and Maintaining an Active Directory Infrastructure
• Set an Active Directory forest and domain functional level based on requirements.
• Establish trust relationships. Types of trust relationships might include external trusts, shortcut trusts, and cross-forest
• Plan flexible operations master role placement
• Plan for business continuity of operations master roles.
• Identify operations master role dependencies.

Planning and Implementing Group Policy
• Plan Group Policy strategy.
• Create and configure GPOs.
• Configure Group Policy refresh rates and Group Policy settings.
• Manage GPOs.
• Verify and troubleshoot Group Policy.
• Delegate administrative control of Group Policy.
• Plan a Group Policy strategy for the enterprise

Introduction to System Services
Organizing Networked Systems
File Sharing Services

Planning software deployment through group policy
• Introduction to Managing Software Deployment
• Deploying Software
• Configuring Software Deployment
• Maintaining Deployed Software
• Troubleshooting Software Deployment
• Planning a Software Deployment Strategy

Managing Disaster Recovery
• Preparing for Disaster Recovery
• Backing Up Data
• Scheduling Backup Jobs
• Restoring Data
• Configuring Shadow Copies
• Recovering from Server Failure, ASR, Recovery Console
• Backing Up Active Directory
• Perform an authoritative restore operation.
• Perform a non-authoritative restore operation.

Implementing network infrastructure
• Describe the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol architecture.
• Convert Internet Protocol (IP) addresses between decimal and binary.
• Calculate a subnet mask.
• Create subnets using Variable-Length Subnet Mask (VLSM)
• Configure a host to use a static IP address.
• Assign IP addresses in a multiple subnet network.
• Describe the IP routing process.
• Configure a host to obtain an IP address automatically.
• Configure a host so that automatic private IP address configuration is disabled.
• Configure a host to use name servers.
• Isolate common connectivity issues.

IP addressing and Name resolution
• Plan a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) strategy.
• Optimize and troubleshoot DHCP.
• Allocate IP addressing by using DHCP.
• Manage and monitor DHCP.
• Resolve names.

• Plan a Domain Name System (DNS) strategy.
• Optimize and troubleshoot DNS
• Resolve host names by using DNS.
• Manage the integration of Active Directory and DNS.
• Manage and monitor DNS.
• Resolve network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) names by using WINS.

Manage a Web server & Terminal Server.
• Manage Internet Information Services (IIS).
• Manage security for IIS.
• Maintain software by using Microsoft Software Update Services.
• Remote administration.

Configure routing by using the Routing and Remote Access service
• Introduction to a Network Access Infrastructure
• Configure Routing and Remote Access
• Plan a Routing Topology
• Static and Dynamic routing
• Configuring VPN Access
• Configuring Dial-up Access
• Controlling User Access to a Network
• Centralizing Network Access Authentication by Using IAS, RADIUS
• Configuring NAT

Plan, optimize, and troubleshoot IPSec network access.
• Understanding Default Policy Rules
• Planning an IPSec Deployment
• Troubleshooting IPSec Communications

Monitor system performance
• Introduction to Monitoring Server Performance
• Performing Real-Time and Logged Monitoring
• Configuring and Managing Counter Logs
• Configuring Alerts
• Monitor memory performance objects, disk performance objects, network performance objects, process performance objects.
• Event viewer
• Auditing of objects
• Identify system bottlenecks by using System Monitor

Remote Installation Services
• Installing Win2003 /XP
• Creating Images for Deployment.

Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining Server 2003 Availability
• Plan services for high availability.
• Plan a high availability solution that uses clustering services.
• Plan a high availability solution that uses Network Load Balancing.

Public Key Infrastructure
• Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining Server 2003 Availability
• Plan a high availability solution that uses clustering services.
• Plan a high availability solution that uses Network Load Balancing.