Course Outline: PRO: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator For 70-646 Exam

Planning for Server Deployment For 70-646 Test (19 percent)
Plan server installations and upgrades.

May include but is not limited to: Windows Server 2008 edition selection, rollback planning, Bitlocker implementation requirements

Plan for automated server deployment.

May include but is not limited to: standard server image, automation and scheduling of server deployments

Plan infrastructure services server roles.

May include but is not limited to: address assignment, name resolution, network access control, directory services, application services, certificate services

Plan application servers and services.

May include but is not limited to: virtualization server planning, availability, resilience, and accessibility

Plan file and print server roles.

May include but is not limited to: access permissions, storage quotas, replication, indexing, file storage policy, availability, printer publishing

Planning for Server Management For 70-646 Exam (23 percent)
Plan server management strategies.

May include but is not limited to: remote administration, remote desktop, server management technologies, Server Manager and ServerManagerCMD, delegation policies and procedures

Plan for delegated administration.

May include but is not limited to: delegate authority, delegate Active Directory objects, application management

Plan and implement group policy strategy.

May include but is not limited to: GPO management, GPO backup and recovery, group policy troubleshooting, group policy planning

Monitoring and Maintaining Servers For 70-646 Exam (20 percent)
Implement patch management strategy.

May include but is not limited to: operating system patch level maintenance, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), application patch level maintenance

Monitor servers for performance evaluation and optimization.

May include but is not limited to: server and service monitoring, optimization, event management, trending and baseline analysis

Monitor and maintain security and policies.

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 For 70-646 Test (19 percent)
Provision applications.

May include but is not limited to: presentation virtualization, terminal server infrastructure, resource allocation, application virtualization alternatives, application deployment, System Center Configuration Manager

Provision data.

May include but is not limited to: shared resources, offline data access

Planning for Business Continuity and High Availability For 70-646 Test (19 percent)
Plan storage.

May include but is not limited to: storage solutions, storage management

Plan high availability.

May include but is not limited to: service redundancy, service availability

Plan for backup and recovery.

May include but is not limited to: data recovery strategy, server recovery strategy, directory service recovery strategy, object level recovery