Microsoft Exam 70-294

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

Microsoft Exam 70-294 is totally based on the large, important feature of win server 2003 Active directory... and its services...

• Credits for this certification:

When you pass Microsoft exam 70-294 you became Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Microsoft exam 70-291 is also one of the exams requiring in achieving following group certifications:

Certificate MCSE on Windows Server 2003 certification... = core exam

• Program of study for Microsoft exam 70-293

This certification study includes various services offer by active directory... its structure.. its objects...

• Planning and Implementing an Active Directory Infrastructure

Study about:

Global catalog servers

Placing global catalog servers according to network traffic

Enable universal group caching

Giving Master roles

Master role dependencies

• Implement an Active Directory, directory service forest and domain structure

Study about:

Forest root domain

Child domain

Application Data Partitions

Active Directory domain controller

Active Directory forest and domain

Trust relationships

Types of trust relationships: external trusts, shortcut trusts, and cross-forest trusts

• Implement an Active Directory site topology

Study about:

Site links

Bridgehead servers

An administrative delegation strategy

Organizational unit (OU) structure

Security group

• Managing and Maintaining an Active Directory Infrastructure

Study about:

Active Directory forest and domain structure

Trust relationships

Schema modifications

UPN suffix

• Manage an Active Directory site

Study about:

Replication schedules

Site link costs

Site boundaries

• Active Directory replication failures & recovery:

Study about:

Tools: Replication Monitor, Event Viewer, and support tools

Monitoring Active Directory replication

File Replication service (FRS) replication

• Restore Active Directory services:

Study about:

Authoritative restore operation

Non-authoritative restore operation

• Troubleshoot Active Directory

Study about:

Issues related to Active Directory replication

Issues related to operations master role failure

Issues related to the Active Directory database

• Planning and Implementing User, Computer, and Group Strategies

Study about:

Security group strategy

User authentication strategy

Smart card authentication strategy

Password policy for domain users

• Plan an OU structure

Study about:

administrative requirements for an OU

Analyze the Group Policy requirements for an OU structure

Implement an OU structure

Create an OU

Permissions for an OU to a user or to a security group

Objects within an OU hierarchy

• Planning and Implementing Group Policy

Study about:

Group Policy strategy

Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) Planning mode

Configuring the user environment by using Group Policy

Configuring the computer environment by using Group Policy

• Configure the user environment by using Group Policy

Study about:

Distributing software

Automatically enroll user certificates

Redirect folders

User security settings

• Deploy a computer environment by using Group Policy

Study about:

Distribute software for user computers

Automatically enroll computer certificates

Configure computer security settings

• Managing and Maintaining Group Policy:

Study about:

Troubleshooting Group Policy application deployment

Tools: RSoP and the gpresult command

• Maintain installed software by using Group Policy

Study about:

Distributing updates to software

Automatic updates for network clients

• Troubleshoot the application of Group Policy security settings:

Study about:

Tools:

RSoP and the gpresult command