70-647 PRO: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator

Overview

The enterprise administrator is responsible for the overall Windows Server 2008 R2 environment and architecture. The enterprise administrator translates business goals into technology decisions and designs mid-range to long-term strategies. Enterprise administrators also make key decisions and recommendations about the following:

• Network infrastructure
• Directory services, identity management, and authentication
• Security policies
• Business continuity (disaster recovery, personnel, equipment, and data)
• Design of IT administrative structure (delegation models)
• Best practices, standards, and service level agreements (SLAs)

The enterprise administrator is responsible for infrastructure design and global configuration changes. The enterprise administrator's job role involves 20 percent operations, 60 percent engineering, and 20 percent support tasks.

This course is designed to provide the student with all the knowledge they require to fill a role like the onne described above. Candidates will be exposed to all of the examinable topics as well as various methods and tools to help them manage similar systems in a production environment out in the real world.

Course Materials

All delegates are provided with official Microsoft Press release courseware. This includes the complete book on disk as well as many other resources like official technical drafts, white-papers and case studies. All students are furnished with materials like examination pads, pens, highlighters and other necessary stationary. Many other study aids are provided throughout the course ensuring each student a unique learning experience...

Course Duration

5 Days

Certification

Exam: 70-647

Required for:  MCITP Enterprise Administrator

Prerequisites

Candidates require a solid knowledge of computers and a basic knowledge of networking technologies and in addition must have completed the 70-680, 70-640, 70-642 and 70-643 courses.

Course Topics

• Planning network and application services
• Plan for name resolution and IP addressing.
• Design for network access.
• Plan for application delivery.
• Plan for Remote Desktop Services.
• Designing core identity and access management components
• Design Active Directory forests and domains.
• Design the Active Directory physical topology.
• Design the Active Directory administrative model.
• Design the enterprise-level group policy strategy.
• Designing support identity and access management components
• Plan for domain or forest migration, upgrade, and restructuring.
• Design the branch office deployment.
• Design and implement public key infrastructure.
• Plan for interoperability.
• Designing for business continuity and data availability
• Plan for business continuity.
• Design for software updates and compliance management.
• Design the operating system virtualization strategy.
• Design for data management and data access.

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