MCITP Windows Server 2008 Administrator

Are you a database programmer? Would you like to carve out a fulfilling career in network database programming and architecture? If yes, then the Microsoft Certified IT Professional (Server Administrator) – MCITP certification is just the right thing for you.

At London College, we offer the best of amenities and a practical-led approach to help our students pass the industry’s most-reputed certification exams. For the MCITP certification in Server Administration, you will require to give the following three examinations:

a. 70-640: Arms you with the MCTS Certificate for Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration
b. 70-642: Arms you with the MCTS Certificate for WS 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration
c. 70-646: The final exam that earns you the required MCITP Certificate as a Server Administrator.

Requisites for an easy walk-through in this course are installing, configuring, troubleshooting and monitoring server databases. Your final profile will include your ability to deploy, manage, monitor and troubleshoot servers, manage data distribution across servers with provision for offline access and resource sharing and provision for data storage to allow business continuity without loss of logical data.

If you are wondering what happens to your already-acquired MCSE or MCSA certificate, Microsoft also offers an upgradation exam that you can take to update your designation to MCITP.

MCITP certification Exam 70-640
Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration

Configuring Domain Name System (DNS) for Active Directory
Configure zones.
Dynamic DNS (DDNS), Non-dynamic DNS (NDDNS), and Secure Dynamic DNS (SDDNS),
Time to Live (TTL), GlobalNames, Primary, Secondary, Active Directory Integrated,
Stub, SOA, zone scavenging, forward lookup, reverse lookup

DNS server settings, zone transfers and replication
Configure DNS, Forwarding, root hints, configure zone delegation, round robin,
disable recursion, debug logging, server scavenging
Configure replication scope (forestDNSzone, domainDNSzone),
incremental zone transfers, DNS Notify, secure zone transfers,
configure name servers, application directory partitions

Configuring the Active Directory Infrastructure

Configure a forest or a domain
Remove a domain, perform an unattended installation,
Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) v3 (pruning and grafting),
raise forest and domain functional levels,
interoperability with previous versions of Active Directory,
alternate user principal name (UPN) suffix, forestprep, domainprep

Configure trusts, Sites, global catalog, operations masters and Active Directory replication
Forest trust, selective authentication versus forest-wide authentication,
Transitive trust, external trust, shortcut trust, SID filtering
Create Active Directory subnets, configure site links,
Configure site link costing, configure sites infrastructure
Distributed File System, one-way replication, Bridgehead server,
Replication scheduling, configure replication protocols, force intersite replication
Universal Group Membership Caching (UGMC),
Partial attribute set, promote to global catalog
Seize and transfer, backup operations master, operations master placement,
Schema Master, extending the schema, time service

Configuring Additional Active Directory Server Roles

Configure Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS).
Migration to AD LDS, configure data within AD LDS,
configure an authentication server, server core, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Configure Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD RMS).
Certificate request and installation, self-enrollments, delegation,
Active Directory Metadirectory Services (AD MDS), Windows Server virtualization

Configure the read-only domain controller (RODC).
Unidirectional replication, Administrator role separation,
read-only DNS, BitLocker, credential caching,
password replication, syskey, Windows Server virtualization

Configure Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).
Install AD FS server role, exchange certificate with AD FS agents,
configure trust policies, configure user and group claim mapping, Windows Server virtualization

Creating and Maintaining Active Directory Objects

Automate creation of Active Directory accounts.
Bulk import, configure the UPN, create computer,
user, and group accounts (scripts, import, migration),
template accounts, contacts, distribution lists

Maintain Active Directory accounts.
Configure group membership, account resets, delegation,
AGDLP/AGGUDLP, deny domain local group, local versus domain,
Protected Admin, disabling accounts versus deleting accounts,
deprovisioning, contacts, creating organizational units (OUs), delegation of control

Create and apply Group Policy objects (GPOs), GPO templates and software deployment GPOs
Enforce, OU hierarchy, block inheritance, and enabling user objects,
group policy processing priority, WMI, group policy filtering, group policy loopback
User rights, ADMX Central Store, administrative templates,
security templates, restricted groups, security options, starter GPOs, shell access policies
Publishing to users, assigning software to users,
assigning to computers, software removal

Configure account policies and audit policy by using GPOs
Domain password policy, account lockout policy,
Fine-grain password policies
Audit logon events, audit account logon events,
Audit policy change, audit access privilege use,
Audit directory service access, audit object access

Maintaining the Active Directory Environment

Configure backup and recovery.
Using Windows Server Backup, back up files and system state data to media,
Back up and restore by using removable media,
Perform an authoritative or non-authoritative Active Directory restore,
Linked value replication, Directory Services Recovery Mode (DSRM) (reset admin password),
Back up and restore GPOs

Perform offline maintenance.
Offline defragmentation and compaction, Restartable Active Directory,
Active Directory database storage allocation

Monitor Active Directory.
Network Monitor, Task Manager, Event Viewer,
ReplMon, RepAdmin, Windows System Resource Manager,
Reliability and Performance Monitor, Server Performance Advisor, RSOP

Configuring Active Directory Certificate Services

Install Active Directory Certificate Services.
Standalone versus enterprise, CA hierarchies—root versus subordinate,
certificate requests, certificate practice statement

Configure CA server settings.
Key archival, certificate database backup and restore,
assigning administration roles

Manage certificate templates, enrollments and certificate revocations
Certificate template types, securing template permissions, managing different certificate template versions, key recovery agent
Network device enrollment service (NDES), Autoenrollment,
Web enrollment, smart card enrollment, creating enrollment agents
Configure Online Responders, Certificate Revocation List (CRL),
CRL Distribution Point (CDP), Authority Information Access (AIA)

MCITP certification Exam 70-642
Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

Configuring IP Addressing and Services

Configure IPv4 and IPv6 addressing.
Configure IP options, subnetting, supernetting, alternative configuration

Configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
DHCP options, creating new options, PXE boot, default user profiles, DHCP relay agents, exclusions, authorize server in Active Directory, scopes, server core, Windows Server Hyper-V

Configure routingn IPsec, Name Resolution
Static routing, persistent routing, Routing Internet Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Create IPsec policy, IPsec Authentication Header (AH), IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)

Configure a Domain Name System (DNS) server, DNS zones, DNS records and DNS replication
Conditional forwarding, external forwarders, root hints, cache-only, server core, WINS and DNS integration, Windows Server virtualization
DNS Refresh no-refresh, intervals, DNS listserv address (NSLOOKUP), primary/secondary zones, Active Directory integration, Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS), GlobalNames, SOA refresh
Record types, host, pointer, MX, SRV, NS, dynamic updates, Time to Live (TTL)
DNS secondary zones, DNS stub zones, DNS scavenging interval, replication scope

Configure name resolution for client computers
DNS and WINS integration, configuring HOSTS file, LMHOSTS, node type, Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR), broadcasting, resolver cache, DNS Server list, Suffix Search order, manage client settings by using group policy

Configuring Network Access, remote access, Network Access Protection (NAP) and network authentication
Dial-up, Remote Access Policy, Network Address Translation (NAT), Internet Connection Sharing (ICS), VPN, Routing and Remote Access Services (RRAS), inbound/outbound filters, configure Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server, configure RADIUS proxy, remote access protocols, Connection Manager
Network layer protection, DHCP enforcement, VPN enforcement, configure NAP health policies, IPsec enforcement, 802.1x enforcement, flexible host isolation
LAN authentication by using NTLMv2 and Kerberos, WLAN authentication by using 802.1x, RAS authentication by using MS-CHAP, MS-CHAP v2, and EAP

Configure wireless access, firewall settings
Set Service Identifier (SSID), Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), ad hoc versus infrastructure mode, group policy for wireless
Incoming and outgoing traffic filtering, Active Directory account integration, identify ports and protocols, Microsoft Windows Firewall versus Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, configure firewall by using group policy, isolation policy

Configuring File and Print Services
Configure a file server.
File share publishing, Offline Files, share permissions, NTFS permissions, encrypting file system (EFS)

Configure Distributed File System (DFS)
DFS namespace, DFS configuration and application, creating and configuring targets, DFS replication

Configure shadow copy services and backup and restore
Recover previous versions, set schedule, set storage locations
Backup types, backup schedules, managing remotely, restoring data
Manage disk quotas.
Quota by volume or quota by user, quota entries, quota templates

Configure and monitor print services
Printer share, publish printers to Active Directory, printer permissions, deploy printer connections, install printer drivers, export and import print queues and printer settings, add counters to Reliability and Performance Monitor to monitor print servers, print pooling, print priority

Monitoring and Managing a Network Infrastructure
Configure Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server settings.
update type selection, client settings, Group Policy object (GPO), client targeting, software updates, test and approval, disconnected networks

Capture performance data
Data Collector Sets, Performance Monitor, Reliability Monitor, monitoring System Stability Index

Monitor event logs
Custom views, application and services logs, subscriptions, DNS log
Gather network data.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Baseline Security Analyzer, Network Monitor

MCITP certification Exam 70-643
Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator

Deploying Servers

Server installations, automated server deployment and upgrades.
Windows Server 2008 edition selection,
Rollback planning, Bitlocker implementation requirements
Standard server image, automation and scheduling of server deployments

Plan infrastructure services server roles, application servers and services
Address assignment, name resolution, network access control,
Directory services, application services, certificate services
Virtualization server planning, availability,
Resilience, and accessibility

Plan file and print server roles.
Access permissions, storage quotas, replication, indexing,
File storage policy, availability, printer publishing

Planning for Server Management

Plan server management strategies, delegated administration and implement group policy strategy
Remote administration, remote desktop, server management technologies,
Server Manager and ServerManagerCMD, delegation policies and procedures
Delegate authority, delegate Active Directory objects,
Application management
GPO management, GPO backup and recovery,
Group policy troubleshooting, group policy planning

Monitoring and Maintaining Servers

Implement patch management strategy.
Operating system patch level maintenance, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS),
Application patch level maintenance

Monitor servers for performance evaluation and optimization.
Server and service monitoring, optimization, event management,
Trending and baseline analysis

Monitor and maintain security and policies.
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

Provision applications, data
Presentation virtualization, terminal server infrastructure, resource allocation,
Application virtualization alternatives, application deployment, System Center Configuration Manager
Shared resources, offline data access

Planning for Business Continuity and High Availability

Plan storage, high availability and backup and recovery
Storage solutions, storage management
Service redundancy, service availability
Data recovery strategy, server recovery strategy,
Directory service recovery strategy, object level recovery