Exam Objectives
This exam is broken up into five different categories:
Planning for Server Deployment (19 percent)
- Plan server installations and upgrades.
- Plan for automated server deployment.
- Plan infrastructure services server roles.
- Plan application servers and services.
- Plan file and print server roles.
May include but is not limited to: Windows Server 2008 edition selection, rollback planning, Bitlocker implementation requirements
May include but is not limited to: standard server image, automation and scheduling of server deployments
May include but is not limited to: address assignment, name resolution, network access control, directory services, application services, certificate services
May include but is not limited to: virtualization server planning, availability, resilience, and accessibility
May include but is not limited to: access permissions, storage quotas, replication, indexing, file storage policy, availability, printer publishing
Planning for Server Management (23 percent)
- Plan server management strategies.
- Plan for delegated administration.
- Plan and implement group policy strategy.
May include but is not limited to: remote administration, remote desktop, server management technologies, Server Manager and ServerManagerCMD, delegation policies and procedures
May include but is not limited to: delegate authority, delegate Active Directory objects, application management
May include but is not limited to: GPO management, GPO backup and recovery, group policy troubleshooting, group policy planning
Monitoring and Maintaining Servers (20 percent)
- Implement patch management strategy.
- Monitor servers for performance evaluation and optimization.
- Monitor and maintain security and policies.
May include but is not limited to: operating system patch level maintenance, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), application patch level maintenance
May include but is not limited to: server and service monitoring, optimization, event management, trending and baseline analysis
May include but is not limited to: remote access, monitor and maintain NPAS, network access, server security, firewall rules and policies, authentication and authorization, data security, auditing
Planning Application and Data Provisioning (19 percent)
- Provision applications.
- Provision data.
May include but is not limited to: presentation virtualization, terminal server infrastructure, resource allocation, application virtualization alternatives, application deployment, System Center Configuration Manager
May include but is not limited to: shared resources, offline data access
Planning for Business Continuity and High Availability (19 percent)
- Plan storage.
- Plan high availability.
- Plan for backup and recovery.
May include but is not limited to: storage solutions, storage management
May include but is not limited to: service redundancy, service availability
May include but is not limited to: data recovery strategy, server recovery strategy, directory service recovery strategy, object level recovery