Exam 70-693 - Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator
Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.
Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.
Design a virtualization strategy (22%)
- Recommend a virtualization technology
- Server virtualization, Application Virtualization (App-V), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), Remote Desktop Services (RDS), Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), Microsoft Virtual PC
- Plan capacity
- Plan licensing
- Operating system editions
- Design solutions for integration with third-party products
- Hypervisors, VDIs, and management tools
Design the physical and virtual infrastructure (21%)
- Plan hardware and virtual resource requirements
- CPUs, memory, disk, host, parent, child, performance, networking, Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), CPU Core Parking
- Design storage
- Dynamic, fixed, differential, pass-through; logical unit number (LUN) considerations
- Design networking
- Virtual network type, host NIC configuration, VLAN, TCP chimney, jumbo frames, Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)
- Plan snapshots and checkpoints
Design a highly available virtual environment (20%)
- Design parent for high availability
- Windows Server 2008 failover clustering, migration types, Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
- Design child for high availability
- Windows Server 2008 failover clustering, Network Load Balancing (NLB), shared storage
- Design for migration type
- Quick migration, live migration, storage area network (SAN) migration, network migration
Design a deployment strategy (19%)
- Design a virtual machine deployment
- Virtual Machine Manager, Self-Service Portal (SSP), Windows PowerShell, scripting, Configuration Manager
- Plan a virtual machine conversion
- Physical to virtual (P2V), virtual to virtual (V2V)
- Design a VDI deployment
- Broker, profile management, applications, methods of access, static and dynamic deployment
- Design an App-V deployment
- Server roles, server role placement, application compatibility
Design a management strategy (18%)
- Plan backup and recovery for parent and child partitions
- Design a monitoring strategy
- Design for a parent, design for a child; integration with Operations Manager
- Plan updates and maintenance
- Offline image maintenance, hardware maintenance, integration services
- Design an administrative strategy
- Management networks, remote administration, Virtual Machine Manager, Authorization Manager