Exam 70-336 - Core Solutions of Microsoft Lync Server 2013
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.
Prerequisties:
Microsoft Training20336 -Core Solutions of Microsoft Lync Server 2013
Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.
Plan and design a Lync topology (25–30%)
- Plan Lync site topology
- Evaluate user distribution for central and branch site design; analyze business requirements for Persistent Chat ethical boundaries or room design; associate workloads to business requirements; analyze business requirements and plan Lync physical architecture; analyze capacity requirements and plan Lync physical architecture; analyze and design Lync SIP domains
- Plan Lync Server support infrastructure
- Define certificate requirements for internal servers; analyze and design load balancing, DNS, SQL, filestore, and Lync to support IPv6
- Plan Lync servers
- Define collocation of server roles; analyze hardware requirements; determine storage requirements for archiving and monitoring; determine OS version requirements; determine OS dependencies
- Design a Lync Server HA/DR solution
- Strategy for branch office scenarios, resiliency, SQL mirroring, central site failover; strategy for Persistent Chat; strategy for voice applications
- Design Edge Services
- Define certificate requirements for remote servers; analyze and design firewall settings, load balancing, DNS, reverse proxy; analyze port requirements
Plan and design Lync features (25–30%)
- Design conferencing
- WAC; coexistence strategy for legacy conferencing; conference access numbers; conferencing regions; conferencing lifecycle; conferencing policies
- Design Lync remote and external access
- Federation; public IM connectivity; XMPP; mobile push notifications; directors; remote user access
- Plan for Lync user experience
- Contact list management; client version control; privacy; common area phone hotdesking; Music on Hold; Address Book web search/download
- Plan for clients and devices
- Lync mobility; phone edition or 3PIP devices; client authentication options; analog devices; Lync users for VDI
- Plan migration from previous versions
- Migration sequence; decommissioning of old servers; client co-existence; monitoring and archiving; server co-existence; conference migration strategy
- Plan end-user training for Lync client features
- Enterprise Voice; Persistent Chat; managing a conference; participate in a conference with Lync mobile app, phone edition, Lync web app
Deploy and configure Lync (20–25%)
- Configure and publish topology
- Mediation server collocation; trunks and gateways; Lync roles; multiple media gateway support; add/remove server features; deploy Edge Server
- Configure conferencing
- PIN policy; regions and conference dial in access numbers; meeting configuration; conference policies
- Configure Lync remote and external access
- Edge server; XMPP; PIC; federation; reverse proxy
- Configure Persistent Chat
- Categories and scope; rooms access; server policy; legacy endpoints; add-ins
- Deploy and configure clients and devices
- Lync client features; client policies; client security options; analog or phone edition/3PIP policies; mobile device policies; Lync users for VDI
- Migrate from previous versions of Lync
- Consolidate legacy servers to a supported single version; move legacy users; migrate legacy configurations, conferences, and Response Groups or LIS; move CMS or File Share Data
- Configure HA/DR
- Pool failover; site failover; invoke failover/failback; SQL mirroring, voice resiliency; map user experience to failover scenario
Manage operations and data resiliency for Lync (25–30%)
- Troubleshoot the Lync environment
- Enable and collect logs; recover from failed server build; analyze event viewer; enable OCSLogger tracing; enable Best Practice Analyzer; verify name resolution
- Manage the Lync environment
- Run Lync BPA; enable or move Lync users; configure RBAC; maintain devices within the enterprise; configure Address Book; manage RGS delegated administration
- Verify Lync environment health
- Interpret Lync 15 monitoring reports and identify potential issues; configure synthetic transactions; test connectivity with Powershell Test Commandlet; configure core reliability and media quality monitoring; verify service health and CMS replication status
- Mitigate data loss
- Backup and restore application service data; filestore data and contacts; maintain and recover Lync 15 topology and LIS and RTC; recover CMS
- Manage monitoring and archiving services
- Deploy monitoring reports; configure CDR and quality of experience; Persistent Chat compliance; archiving; archiving with Exchange; archiving policies