This certification is intended for IT Professional who need to validate their skills and knowledge necessary for planning, designing and deploying a Windows Server 2012 highly virtualized infrastructure including the Active Directory, storage, security and networking services necessary. Candidate’s should have experience with previous Windows Server Operating systems and have their Windows 2012 Server certification (MCSA) or equivalent skills.

Course Objectives

• Manage and Maintain a Server Infrastructure
• Plan and Implement a Highly Available Enterprise Infrastructure
• Plan and Implement a Server Virtualization Infrastructure
• Design and Implement Identity and Access Solutions

Prerequisites

Knowledge of Windows Server Platforms
Windows MCSA Certification

Course Track

• Manage and Maintain a Server Infrastructure
• Plan and Implement a Highly Available Enterprise Infrastructure
• Plan and Implement a Server Virtualization Infrastructure
• Design and Implement Identity and Access Solutions

Course Benefits

This course is part two, of a series of two courses, which validate the skills and knowledge necessary to design, implement and maintain a Windows Server 2012 Infrastructure in an enterprise scaled, highly virtualized environment. This course will validate the planning, configuration, and management of the Windows Server 2012 services, such as identity and access, high availability and the server infrastructure. This course along with course 70-413 will collectively validate the skills and knowledge necessary for designing, deploying, and maintaining services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 environment.

Course Duration

6 weeks or 40 Hours Lecture and Lab Hands-on

Course Guide

Manage and Maintain a Server Infrastructure (27%)

• Design an administrative model.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Design considerations including user rights, built-in groups, and end-user self-service portal; design a delegation of administration structure for Microsoft System Center 2012

• Design a monitoring strategy.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Design considerations including monitoring servers using Audit Collection Services (ACS), performance monitoring, centralized monitoring, and centralized reporting; implement and optimize System Center 2012 – Operations Manager management packs; plan for monitoring Active Directory

• Design an updates infrastructure.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Design considerations including Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), System Center 2012 – Configuration Manager, and cluster-aware updating; design and configure Virtual Machine Manager for software update management; update VDI desktop images

• Implement automated remediation.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Create an Update Baseline in Virtual Machine Manager; implement a Desired Configuration Management (DCM) Baseline; implement Virtual Machine Manager integration with Operations Manager; configure Virtual Machine Manager to move a VM dynamically based on policy; integrate System Center 2012 for automatic remediation into your existing Enterprise Infrastructure

Plan and Implement a Highly Available Enterprise Infrastructure (26%)

• Plan and implement failover clustering.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan for multi-node and multi-site clustering; design considerations including redundant networks, network priority settings, resource failover and failback, heartbeat and DNS settings, Quorum configuration, and storage placement and replication

• Plan and implement highly available network services.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan for and configure Network Load Balancing (NLB); design considerations including fault-tolerant networking, multicast vs. unicast configuration, state management, and automated deployment of NLB using Virtual Machine Manager service templates

• Plan and implement highly available storage solutions.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan for and configure storage spaces and storage pools; design highly available, multi-replica DFS namespaces; plan for and configure multi-path I/O, including Server Core; configure highly available iSCSI Target and iSNS Server

• Plan and implement highly available server roles.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan for a highly available Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server, Hyper-V clustering, Continuously Available File Shares, and a DFS Namespace Server; plan for and implement highly available applications, services, and scripts using Generic Application, Generic Script, and Generic Service clustering roles

• Plan and implement a business continuity and disaster recovery solution.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan a backup and recovery strategy; planning considerations including Active Directory domain and forest recovery, Hyper-V replica, domain controller restore and cloning, and Active Directory object and container restore using authoritative restore and Recycle Bin

Plan and Implement a Server Virtualization Infrastructure (26%)

• Plan and implement virtualization hosts.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan for and implement delegation of virtualization environment (hosts, services, and VMs), including self-service capabilities; plan and implement multi-host libraries including equivalent objects; plan for and implement host resource optimization; integrate third-party virtualization platforms

• Plan and implement virtualization guests.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan for and implement highly available VMs; plan for and implement guest resource optimization including smart page file, dynamic memory, and RemoteFX; configure placement rules; create Virtual Machine Manager templates

• Plan and implement virtualization networking.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan for and configure Virtual Machine Manager logical networks; plan for and configure IP address and MAC address settings across multiple Hyper-V hosts including IP virtualization; plan for and configure virtual network optimization

• Plan and implement virtualization storage

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan for and configure Hyper-V host storage including stand-alone and clustered setup using SMB 2.2 and CSV; plan for and configure Hyper-V guest storage including virtual Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and pass-through disks; plan for storage optimization

• Plan and implement virtual guest movement.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan for and configure live, SAN, and network migration between Hyper-V hosts; plan for and manage P2V and V2V

• Manage and maintain a server virtualization infrastructure.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Manage dynamic optimization and resource optimization; manage Operations Manager integration using PRO Tips; automate VM software and configuration updates using service templates; maintain library updates

Design and Implement Identity and Access Solutions (21%)

• Design a Certificate Services infrastructure.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Design a multi-tier Certificate Authority (CA) hierarchy with offline root CA; plan for multi-forest CA deployment; plan for Certificate Enrollment Web Services; plan for network device enrollment; plan for certificate validation and revocation; plan for disaster recovery; plan for trust between organizations

• Implement and manage a Certificate Services infrastructure.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Configure and manage offline root CA; configure and manage Certificate Enrollment Web Services; configure and manage Network Device Enrollment Services; configure Online Certificates Status Protocol responders; migrate CA; implement administrator role separation; implement and manage trust between organizations; monitor CA health

• Implement and manage certificates.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Manage certificate templates; implement and manage deployment, validation, and revocation; manage certificate renewal including Internet-based clients; manage certificate deployment and renewal to network devices; configure and manage key archival and recovery

• Design and implement a federated identity solution.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan for and implement claims-based authentication including planning and implementing Relying Party Trusts; plan for and configure Claims Provider Trust rules; plan for and configure attribute stores including Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS); plan for and manage Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) certificates; plan for Identity Integration with Cloud services

• Design and implement Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS).

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Plan for highly available AD RMS deployment; manage AD RMS Service Connection Point; plan for and manage AD RMS client deployment; manage Trusted User Domains; manage Trusted publishing domains; manage Federated Identity support; manage Distributed and Archived Rights Policy templates; configure Exclusion Policies; decommission AD RMS