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MCITP 2008 Certification Overview
Enterprise administrators are seen as managers and leaders of the future as regards Windows infrastructure design. You can be recognized as a separate distinguished identity if you can develop your skills in your current position or move ahead. In case you wish to go beyond your role, you can do so after appearing for the enterprise administrator exam and have jobs such as that of an IT systems manager, even a Systems Architect. Since a leader requires an edge above his peers, to be a great Enterprise Administrator you have to clear 5 exams. Four of these would comprise of the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) prerequisite exam and one from the Professional Series.
MCITP Certification Course Contents
MCIPT Enterprise Administrator Exam 70-640
Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration
Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical
Devices
Manage basic disks and dynamic disks.
Hardware Troubleshooting Wizard, Device Manager
and appropriate Control
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
Configure DNS server settings.
Forwarding, root hints, configure zone delegation, round robin,
disable recursion, debug logging, server scavenging
Configure zone transfers and replication.
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.
Forest trust, selective authentication versus forest-wide authentication,
transitive trust, external trust, shortcut trust, SID filtering
Configure sites.
Create Active Directory subnets, configure site links,
configure site link costing, configure sites infrastructure
Configure Active Directory replication.
Distributed File System, one-way replication, Bridgehead server,
replication scheduling, configure replication protocols, force intersite replication
Configure the global catalog.
Universal Group Membership Caching (UGMC),
partial attribute set, promote to global catalog
Configure operations masters.
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).
Enforce, OU hierarchy, block inheritance, and enabling user objects,
group policy processing priority, WMI, group policy filtering, group policy loopback
Configure GPO templates.
User rights, ADMX Central Store, administrative templates,
security templates, restricted groups, security options, starter GPOs, shell access policies
Configure software deployment GPOs.
Publishing to users, assigning software to users,
assigning to computers, software removal
Configure account policies.
Domain password policy, account lockout policy,
fine-grain password policies
Configure audit policy by using GPOs.
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.
Certificate template types, securing template permissions, managing different certificate template versions, key recovery agent
Manage enrollments.
Network device enrollment service (NDES), Autoenrollment,
Web enrollment, smart card enrollment, creating enrollment agents
Manage certificate revocations.
Configure Online Responders, Certificate Revocation List (CRL),
CRL Distribution Point (CDP), Authority Information Access (AIA)
MCIPT Enterprise Administrator 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 routing.
Static routing, persistent routing, Routing Internet Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Configure IPsec.
Create IPsec policy, IPsec Authentication Header (AH), IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Configuring Name Resolution
Configure a Domain Name System (DNS) server.
Conditional forwarding, external forwarders, root hints, cache-only, server core, WINS and DNS integration, Windows Server virtualization
Configure DNS zones.
DNS Refresh no-refresh, intervals, DNS listserv address (NSLOOKUP), primary/secondary zones, Active Directory integration, Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS), GlobalNames, SOA refresh
Configure DNS records.
Record types, host, pointer, MX, SRV, NS, dynamic updates, Time to Live (TTL)
Configure DNS replication.
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
Configure remote access.
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
Configure Network Access Protection (NAP).
Network layer protection, DHCP enforcement, VPN enforcement, configure NAP health policies, IPsec enforcement, 802.1x enforcement, flexible host isolation
Configure network authentication.
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.
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
Configure firewall settings.
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.
Recover previous versions, set schedule, set storage locations
Configure backup and restore.
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
MCIPT Enterprise Administrator Exam 70-643
Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuring
Deploying Servers
Deploy images by using Windows Deployment Services.
Install from media (IFM), configure Windows Deployment Services, capture Windows Deployment Services images, deploy Windows Deployment Services images, server core
Configure Microsoft Windows activation.
install a KMS server, create a DNS SRV record, replicate volume license data
Configure Windows Server Hyper-V and virtual machines.
virtual networking, virtualization hardware requirements, Virtual Hard Disks, migrate from physical to virtual, VM additions, backup, optimization, server core
Configure high availability.
failover clustering, Network Load Balancing, hardware redundancy
Configure storage.
RAID types, Virtual Disk Specification (VDS) API, Network Attached Storage, iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage area networks, mount points
Configuring Terminal Services
Configure Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services RemoteApp (TS RemoteApp).
Configuring Terminal Services Web Access, configuring Terminal Services Remote Desktop Web Connection
Configure Terminal Services Gateway.
Certificate configuration, Terminal Services Gateway Manager (TS Gateway Manager), specifying resources that users can access through TS Gateway by using Terminal Services resource authorization policy (TS RAP) and Terminal Services connection authorization policy (TS CAP), Terminal Services group policy
Configure Terminal Services load balancing.
Terminal Services Session Broker redirection modes, DNS registration, setting through group policy
Configure and monitor Terminal Services resources.
Allocate resources by using Windows Server Resource Manager, configure application logging
Configure Terminal Services licensing.
Deploy licensing server, connectivity between terminal servers and Terminal Services licensing server, recovering Terminal Services licensing server, managing Terminal Services client access licenses (TS CALs)
Configure Terminal Services client connections.
Connecting local devices and resources to a session, Terminal Services profiles, Terminal Services home folders, Remote Desktop Connection (RDC), single sign-on, Remote Desktop Snap-In, MSTSC.exe
Configure Terminal Services server options.
Logoff, disconnect, reset, remote control, monitor, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) permissions, connection limits, session time limits, managing by using GPOs, viewing processes, session permissions, display data prioritization
Configuring a Web Services Infrastructure
Configure Web applications.
Directory-dependent, publishing, URL-specified configuration, Microsoft .NET components, for example, .NET and aspx, configure application pools
Manage Web sites.
Migrate sites and Web applications, publish IIS Web sites, configure virtual directories
Configure a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server.
Configure for extranet users, configure permissions
Configure Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
Setting up smart hosts, configuring size limitations, setting up security and authentication to the delivering server, creating proper service accounts, authentication, SMTP relay
Manage Internet Information Services (IIS).
Web site content backup and restore, IIS configuration backup, monitor IIS, configure logging, delegation of administrative rights
Configure SSL security.
Configure certificates, requesting SSL certificate, renewing SSL certificate, exporting and importing certificates
Configure Web site authentication and permissions.
Configure site permissions and authentication, configure application permissions, client certificate mappings
Configuring Network Application Services
Configure Windows Media server.
on-demand replication, configure time-sensitive content, caching and proxy
Configure Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Encryption, sharing business rules, configuring license delivery, configuring policy templates
Configure Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services server options.
Site permissions, backup, antivirus, configuring Windows SharePoint Services service accounts
Configure Windows SharePoint Services e-mail integration.
Configuring a document library to receive e-mail, configuring incoming versus outgoing e-mail
MCIPT Enterprise Administrator Exam 70-620
Windows Vista, Configuring
Installing and Upgrading Windows Vista
Identify hardware requirements.
Perform a clean installation.
Upgrade to Windows Vista from previous versions of Windows.
Upgrade from one edition of Windows Vista to another edition.
Troubleshoot Windows Vista installation issues.
Install and configure Windows Vista drivers.
Configuring and Troubleshooting Post-Installation System Settings
Troubleshoot post-installation configuration issues.
Configure and troubleshoot Windows Aero.
Configure and troubleshoot parental controls.
Configure Windows Internet Explorer.
Configuring Windows Security Features
Configure and troubleshoot User Account Control.
Configure Windows Defender.
Configure Dynamic Security for Internet Explorer 7.
Configure security settings in Windows Firewall.
Configuring Network Connectivity
Configuring networking by using the Network and Sharing Center.
Troubleshoot connectivity issues.
Configure Remote Access.
Configuring Applications Included with Windows Vista
Configure and troubleshoot media applications.
Configure Windows Mail.
Configure Windows Meeting Space.
Configure Windows Calendar.
Configure Windows Fax and Scan.
Configure Windows Sidebar.
Maintaining and Optimizing Systems That Run Windows Vista
Troubleshoot performance issues.
Troubleshoot reliability issues by using built-in diagnostic tools.
Configure Windows Update.
Configure Data Protection.
Configuring and Troubleshooting Mobile Computing
Configure Mobile Display Settings.
Configure Mobile Devices.
Configure Tablet PC software.
Configure Power Options.
MCIPT Enterprise Administrator Exam 70-647
Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator
Planning Network and Application Services
Plan for name resolution and IP addressing.
Internal and external naming strategy, naming resolution support for legacy clients,
Naming resolution for directory services, IP addressing scheme, TCP/IP version coexistence
Design for network access.
Network access policies, remote access strategy,
Perimeter networks, server and domain isolation
Plan for application delivery.
Application virtualization, presentation virtualization,
Locally installed software, Web-based applications
Plan for Terminal Services.
Terminal Services licensing,
Terminal Services infrastructure
Designing Core Identity and Access Management Components
Design Active Directory forests and domains.
Forest structure, forest and domain functional levels,
Intra-organizational authorization and authentication, schema modifications
Design the Active Directory physical topology.
Placement of servers, site and replication topology,
Printer location policies
Design the Active Directory administrative model.
Delegation, group strategy, compliance auditing,
Group administration, organizational structure
Design the enterprise-level group policy strategy.
Group policy hierarchy and scope filtering, control device installation,
Authentication and authorization
Designing Support Identity and Access Management Components
Plan for domain or forest migration, upgrade, and restructuring.
Cross-forest authentication, backward compatibility, object migration,
Migration planning, implementation planning, environment preparation
Design the branch office deployment.
Authentication strategy, server security
Design and implement public key infrastructure.
Certificate services, PKI operations and maintenance,
Certificate life cycle management
Plan for interoperability.
Inter-organizational authorization and authentication,
Application authentication interoperability, cross-platform interoperability
Designing for Business Continuity and Data Availability
Plan for business continuity.
Service availability, directory service recovery
Design for software updates and compliance management.
Patch management and patch management compliance,
Microsoft Update and Windows Update, security baselines, system health models
Design the operating system virtualization strategy.
Server consolidation, application compatibility,
Virtualization management, placement of servers
Design for data management and data access.
Data security, data accessibility and redundancy,
Data collaboration
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