Exam 70-668 - Microsoft SharePoint 2010, 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.
Designing a SharePoint 2010 farm topology (27%)
- Design physical architecture
- Translating information architecture to physical architecture, determining capacity for a SharePoint farm (storage, number of users/SharePoint Online licenses, bandwidth utilization, intranet/extranet, hardware), and scaling Web farm and services infrastructure
- Design SharePoint integration with network infrastructure
- Planning for internal and external farm communications, establishing network perimeter configuration, networking, Active Directory Domain Services, Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) 2.0, DNS, SQL storage, IIS, analyzing infrastructure services
- Design logical taxonomy
- Planning sites and site collections, planning for collaboration sites, planning My Site sites, planning for Office 365 domains, planning for zones, planning for Service Applications (service application associations), Web applications, content databases, managed paths, sites and sub-sites vs. libraries, libraries vs. folders vs. document sets, security boundaries, software boundaries, site hierarchy, and content deployment path methodology
- Plan for sandbox solutions
- Content isolation, feature deployments, trusted solutions, resource quotas
- Plan for farm deployment
- Sequential deployment, planning standalone deployment (Microsoft SQL Server Express), planning single-server farm (SQL Server), planning cross-farm services, planning multi-server deployment in an N-Tier Farm, and designing a SharePoint virtual environment
- Plan for availability
- Designing SQL Server failover clustering strategy, types of availability (high-performance, acceptable downtime, Recovery Point Objective, Recovery Time Objective), types of mirroring, high availability, high protection, whole farm as a failover cluster, and designing the Web Front-End NLB strategy
Preparation resources
- Best practices: Building the perfect SharePoint farm
- Plan for server farms and environments (SharePoint Server 2010)
- Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010: Model
Planning SharePoint 2010 deployment (26%)
- Plan service applications
- Formulating a Business Connectivity Services (BCS) strategy, planning a Microsoft Excel Services strategy, implementing a BI solution, planning service application server roles, planning a Web server forms strategy (Plan InfoPath Forms Services), and SharePoint Online term store
- Plan a SharePoint component strategy
- Web parts, Web applications, Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Silverlight, SharePoint features and solutions, workflow, site templates, site definitions, multilingual deployment, master pages and layout files, and e-mail integration
- Plan an upgrade strategy
- Supporting hardware upgrades (for example, 32 to 64 bit), operating system upgrade, in-place upgrade, MOSS upgrade, and SQL Server upgrade
- Design a migration strategy
- Database migration, custom features, read-only and detached databases, designing a test and QA implementation plan (for example, development to production), migrating content databases, moving content between farms, moving content to and from the farm, moving content within the farm, and rollback
- Design security architecture
- Planning security for WebApp site collection, designing SharePoint users and groups administration, taxonomy of SharePoint security groups, managed accounts, site security (permission levels, list permissions, site permissions, personal permissions, default and custom security groups), planning for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and SharePoint Online external users
- Plan and deploy authentication methods
- Planning for integration of multiple authentication sources/types, planning for NTLM authentication, planning for Kerberos authentication, planning for Forms-Based Authentication (FBA), planning for Claims Authentication (Identity and Access Management), planning for Secure Store Service, planning for Single Sign On (SSO) for SharePoint Online
Preparation resources
- Deployment for SharePoint Server 2010
- Upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010
- Security and protection for SharePoint Server 2010
Defining a SharePoint 2010 operations strategy and business continuity (25%)
- Design a maintenance strategy
- Preparing test plans for patching and maintenance, SharePoint Maintenance Manager, rebuilding SQL indexes, search maintenance (ranking, most queried items)
- Recommend provisioning strategies
- Managing self-service components (My Sites, service architecture administration, external user invitations), delegating site administration, limiting site templates and page layouts, assigning quotas, defining policy for Web application, public website
- Establish an enterprise monitoring plan
- Developing monitoring points for performance and availability, utilizing performance monitoring, analyzing search reports, Web analytics, diagnostic logging, usage logging, analyzing health and usage data (SharePoint Health Analyzer, Office 365 Service Health), and validating farm topology against performance requirements
- Plan SharePoint backup and restore
- Farm, farm configuration, site collection, Web applications, service applications, snapshots, content database, configuration database, custom features, solutions, site, list, document library, remote blob storage (RBS), and recycle bin; developing and testing recovery strategy and implementation plan, server recovery, site recovery, granular backup and recovery strategy, exporting a site or list, recovering data from an unattached content database
Preparation resources
- Performance and capacity management (SharePoint Server 2010)
- Plan for business continuity management (SharePoint Server 2010)
- Plan and deploy My Site for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Planning for search and business solutions (22%)
- Define search requirements
- Types of data, types of distribution (Internet, extranet), segregation of data, index file location, index size, federation requirements, content sources, search scopes, search taxonomy, server name mappings, promoting or demoting exclusions, synonyms and compound search processing, and defining facets for search
- Plan search topology
- Indexing strategy (indexing redundancy), index partition, query component, property database, crawler component, separate crawler servers (scaling, host distribution rule), and administration component
- Plan an enterprise search strategy
- Designing information access and enterprise search strategy, planning for metadata and search, people search, search reporting, and planning enterprise search technology (FAST vs. SharePoint enterprise search)
- Plan enterprise content management
- Records management, BPM (record deployment), document management, metadata planning, information management policies, implement data taxonomy structure, Web Content Management (WCM), and Information Rights Management (IRM)
- Plan for social computing and collaboration
- User profile service, user profiles, organization profiles, audiences, My Sites, social tags, and planning enterprise wikis, blogs, and personalization sites
- Plan for a business intelligence strategy
- PerformancePoint service (dashboards and scorecards), Excel Services Service, Visio Graphics Service, SQL Reporting Services, PowerPivot service, chart Web parts, and report center