Microsoft Exam 70-290

Microsoft Exam 70-290 - Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment

Microsoft exam 70-290 based on win 2003 server platform..

• Credit for this certification:

1^St When you pass Microsoft exam 70-290 you become Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Microsoft exam 70-290 is also one of the exams requiring achieving following group certifications

Certificate MCSA on win server 2003... = core exam

Certificate MCSE on win server 2003... = core exam

Certificate MCDBA on Ms SQL server 2000... = core exam

• Program of study for Microsoft exam 70-290:

Microsoft exam 70-290 portion include all desktop features of windows server 2003. The more detail you know about win 2003 servers’ properties, the easier the exam to pass.

• Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices

Study about:

Basic disks, Dynamic disks.

Monitoring Disks

Device Manager, Hardware Troubleshooting Wizard, Control Panel items.

Disk performance.

Implementing RAID

Defragmentation

Partitions.

Server Hardware Devices.

Hardware Settings.

Hardware Driver Upgrades.

Driver Signing Options.

Resource Settings for a Device.

Device Properties and Settings.

• Managing Users, Computers, and Groups

Study about:

Local, Roaming, and Mandatory user profiles.

Computer accounts in an Active Directory.

Create and manage groups.

Scope of a group.

Domain groups

Group membership.

Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in.

Troubleshoot user accounts.

Import user accounts.

Troubleshoot computer accounts.

Reset computer accounts.

User account properties.

User authentication.

• Managing and Maintaining Access to Resources

Study about:

Shared folders.

Shared folder permissions.

• Troubleshoot Terminal Services.

Study about:

Terminal Services security.

Client access to Terminal Services.

• Configure file system permissions.

Study about:

Permissions to files & folders.

Ownership of files and folders.

Access to files and shared folders.

• Managing and Maintaining a Server Environment

Study about:

Event Viewer.

System Monitor.

Software update.

Software site licensing.

Remote management by

Remote Assistance.

Terminal Services remote administration mode.

Using Support tools.

• Some IMP tools:

Study about:

Print queues.

System performance.

Task Manager

Event Viewer

System Monitor.

Disk quotas.

Memory Performance.

Network Performance.

• Manage a Web server.

Study about:

Internet Information Services (IIS).

Security for IIS.

• Managing and Implementing Disaster Recovery

Study about:

System Recovery

Automated System Recovery (ASR)

Restore data from shadow copy volumes.

Back ups

Security for backup operations

Backup storage media

• Recover from hardware failure.

Study about:

Restore backup data.

Schedule backup jobs

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