Windows Server 2003 Certifications

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Managing a Windows Server 2003 Environment

Course 2273: Five days; Blended (classroom and e-learning)

Aligns with Exam 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment

Introduction

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

This course combines five days of instructor-led training with additional e-Learning content to provide students with the knowledge and skills that are required to manage accounts and resources, maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data in a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 environment.

This is the first course in the Systems Administrator and Systems Engineer tracks for Windows Server 2003 and serves as the entry point for other courses in the Windows Server 2003 curriculum. This course is also offered as eight days of instructor-led training (as two courses) for students who prefer a complete classroom training experience:

Course 2274: Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment (5 days)
Course 2275: Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment (3 days)

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create and populate organizational units with user and computer accounts.
• Manage user and computer accounts.
• Create and manage groups.
• Manage access to resources.
• Implement printing.
• Manage printing.
• Manage access to objects in using organizational units.
• Implement Group Policy.
• Manage the user and computer environment by using Group Policy.
• Audit accounts and resources.
• Prepare to administer server resources.
• Configure a server to monitor system performance.
• Monitor system performance.
• Manage device drivers by configuring device driver signing and restoring a device driver.
• Manage hard disks.
• Manage data storage.
• Manage disaster recovery.
• Maintain software by using Microsoft Software Update Services.

Prerequisites

• A+ certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.
• Network+ certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.

Managing a Windows Server 2003 Environment

Course 2274: Five days

Aligns with Exam 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment

Introduction

The course is intended for systems administrator and systems engineer candidates who are responsible for managing accounts and resources. These tasks include managing user, computer, and group accounts; managing access to network resources; managing printers; managing an organizational unit in a network based on Active Directory® directory service; and implementing Group Policy to manage users and computers.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create and populate organizational units with user and computer accounts.
• Manage user and computer accounts.
• Create and manage groups.
• Manage access to resources.
• Implement printing.
• Manage printing.
• Manage access to objects in using organizational units.
• Implement Group Policy.
• Manage the user and computer environment by using Group Policy.
• Audit accounts and resources.

Prerequisites

• A+ certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.
• Network+ certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.

Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment

Course 2275: Three days

Aligns with Exam 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment

Introduction

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills that are needed to effectively maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data on a computer running one of the operating systems in the Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 family.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Prepare to administer server resources.
• Configure a server to monitor system performance.
• Monitor system performance.
• Manage device drivers by configuring device driver signing and restoring a device driver.
• Manage hard disks.
• Manage data storage.
• Manage disaster recovery.
• Maintain software by using Microsoft Software Update Services.

Prerequisites

• Course 2274: Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment, or have equivalent knowledge and skills.

Implementing a Windows Server 2003
Network Infrastructure: Network Hosts

Course 2276: Two days

Aligns with Exam 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

Introduction

The goal of this course is to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to configure a Windows-based computer to operate in a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 networking infrastructure.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• 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) and Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR).
• 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.

Prerequisites

• A+ certification or equivalent knowledge and skills.
• Network+ certification or equivalent knowledge and skills.
• Course 2274: Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment, or equivalent knowledge and skills.

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

Course 2277: Five days

Aligns with Exam 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

Introduction

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to implement, manage, and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 network infrastructure. The course is intended for systems administrator and systems engineer candidates who are responsible for implementing, managing, and maintaining server networking technologies. These tasks include implementing routing; implementing, managing, and maintaining Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS); securing Internet Protocol (IP) traffic with Internet Protocol security (IPSec) and certificates; implementing a network access infrastructure by configuring the connections for remote access clients; and managing and monitoring network access.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Configure routing by using the Routing and Remote Access service.
• Allocate IP addressing by using DHCP.
• Manage and monitor DHCP.
• Resolve names.
• Resolve host names by using DNS.
• Manage and monitor DNS.
• Resolve network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) names by using WINS.
• Secure network traffic by using IPSec and certificates.
• Configure network access.
• Manage and monitor network access.

Prerequisites

• Course 2276: Implementing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Hosts, or have equivalent knowledge and skills.

Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Network Infrastructure

Course 2278: Five days

Aligns with Exam 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

Introduction

The goal of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and maintain a Windows® Server 2003 network infrastructure.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Plan a TCP/IP physical and logical network.
• Plan and troubleshoot a routing strategy.
• Plan a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) strategy.
• Optimize and troubleshoot DHCP.
• Plan a Domain Name System (DNS) strategy.
• Optimize and troubleshoot DNS.
• Plan and optimize Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS).
• Plan, optimize, and troubleshoot IPSec network access.
• Troubleshoot network access.

Prerequisites

• Course 2277: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Services, or have equivalent knowledge and skills.

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

Course 2279: Five days

Aligns with Exam 70-294: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure

Introduction

This course includes self-paced and instructor-facilitated components. It provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully plan, implement, and troubleshoot a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 Active Directory® directory service infrastructure. The course focuses on a Windows Server 2003 directory service environment, including forest and domain structure, Domain Name System (DNS), site topology and replication, organizational unit structure and delegation of administration, Group Policy, and user, group, and computer account strategies.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the logical and physical components of Active Directory.
• Create and configure a forest and domain structure by using an Active Directory infrastructure design.
• Plan and implement an organizational unit structure.
• Plan and implement Active Directory user, group, and computer accounts.
• Plan and implement a Group Policy strategy to centrally manage users and computers in an enterprise.
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot software that is deployed using Group Policy.
• Implement sites to manage and monitor Active Directory replication.
• Plan and implement the placement of domain controllers, global catalog servers, and DNS servers that are integrated with Active Directory.
• Plan and manage operations masters.
• Back up, restore, and maintain Active Directory.
• Plan and implement an Active Directory infrastructure that is based on a directory service design that an enterprise architect provides.

Prerequisites

• Course 2278: Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure, or have the equivalent knowledge and skills.

Upgrading Your Support Skills from Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 to Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Course 2208: Three days

Aligns with Exams
70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

Introduction

This three-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and new skills needed to implement and manage a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 networked environment.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Explain the features of the Windows Server 2003 family.
• Implement a Domain Name System (DNS) server.
• Manage and monitor Domain Name System.
• Install the Windows Server 2003 Active Directory® directory service.
• Create and manage Active Directory objects.
• Implement Group Policy to centrally manage a Windows Server 2003 family network.
• Configure and manage a user environment by using Group Policy.
• Configure and support network access.
• Secure network traffic and data files.
• Use advanced boot options, the Recovery Console, and the Backup utility.
• Restore data by using the Backup utility in Windows Server 2003.
• Plan and implement secure Routing and Remote Access.

Prerequisites

• Certified as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows NT 4.0
• Attended Course 689, Supporting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 - Enterprise Technologies
• Possess equivalent knowledge and skills.

Updating Systems Administrator Skills - Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003

Workshop 2209: Two days

Aligns with Exam 70-292: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA 2000

Introduction

This workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 networked environment. This discovery-based workshop consists primarily of labs that provide hands-on experience focused exclusively on the skills and objectives that align with Exam 70-292.

At the end of the workshop, students will be able to:

• Identify the systems administration tasks in Windows Server 2003 that are new or different from the tasks performed in Windows 2000.
• Manage user, computer, and group accounts in a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory-based environment.
• Use the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) to manage Group Policy.
• Manage resources and security.
• Configure and manage DNS.
• Manage servers in remote locations.
• Manage Terminal Services.
• Manage IIS 6.0 Web Services.
• Maintain computers that run Windows operating systems by implementing and managing Software Update Services.
• Prepare for and implement disaster recovery solutions.

Prerequisites

• Either an MCSA on Windows 2000 or an MCSE on Windows 2000 certification, or equivalent knowledge and skills.

Updating Systems Engineer Skills from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003

Workshop 2210: Three days

Aligns with Exam 70-296: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSE 2000

Introduction

This workshop provides students with the knowledge and new skills that they need to plan and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 networked environment.  This discovery-based workshop consists primarily of labs that provide hands-on experience focused exclusively on the skills and objectives that align with Exam 70-296.

After completing this workshop, students will be able to:

• Plan a Domain Name System (DNS) strategy for an enterprise organization.
• Plan for an implementation of Active Directory and for Active Directory replication.
• Implement Active Directory and DNS.
• Troubleshoot Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), name resolution, and Group Policy.
• Plan and implement cross-forest trusts and new security options.
• Use Group Policy in Windows Server 2003 to deploy and restrict software.
• Use Group Policy in Windows Server 2003 to set advanced security settings.
• Plan and implement secure Routing and Remote Access.

Prerequisites

• An MCSE on Windows 2000 certification, and equivalent knowledge and skills.
• Students can gain the prerequisite knowledge and skills by completing the following Microsoft Official Workshop:
  • Workshop 2209: Updating Systems Administrator Skills from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003

The New Microsoft Workshops

What is a Workshop?

The workshop is designed as a hands-on learning activity. It addresses a particular business or technical problem and its solution. As such, a workshop can be designed for a beginning audience to familiarize them with the basic implementation of a new product or an expert audience to optimize their enterprise network for a robust security infrastructure. In a workshop, lecture time is kept to a minimum to give students the opportunity to focus on hands-on, scenario-based labs. The workshop format enables students to reinforce learning by doing and by problem solving. Workshop components include hands-on labs, Toolbox resources, slides, demonstrations, and reference material.
Each unit in a workshop is divided as follows:

These percentages are intended as a guideline. Some variation is expected based on the content, but students should spend at least 60% of each unit focusing on the hands-on lab.