Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator

Code: 70-646
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Exam 70-646 - Windows Server 2008, Server 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.

Planning for server deployment (19%)

  • Plan server installations and upgrades
    • Windows Server 2008 edition selection; rollback planning; Bitlocker implementation requirements
  • Plan for automated server deployment
    • Standard server image; automation and scheduling of server deployments
  • Plan infrastructure services server roles
    • Address assignment; name resolution; network access control; directory services; application services; certificate services
  • Plan application servers and services
    • Virtualization server planning; availability, resilience, and accessibility
  • Plan file and print server roles
    • Access permissions; storage quotas; replication; indexing; file storage policy; availability; printer publishing

Planning for server management (23%)

  • Plan server management strategies
    • Remote administration; remote desktop; server management technologies; Server Manager and ServerManagerCMD; delegation policies and procedures
  • Plan for delegated administration
    • Delegate authority; delegate Active Directory objects; application management
  • Plan and implement group policy strategy
    • GPO management; GPO backup and recovery; group policy troubleshooting; group policy planning

Monitoring and maintaining servers (20%)

  • Implement patch management strategy
    • Operating system patch level maintenance; Windows Server Update Services (WSUS); application patch level maintenance
  • Monitor servers for performance evaluation and optimization
    • Server and service monitoring; optimization; event management; trending and baseline analysis
  • Monitor and maintain security and policies
    • Remote access; monitor and maintain NPAS; network access, server security, firewall rules, and policies; authentication and authorization; data security; auditing

Planning application and data provisioning (19%)

  • Provision applications
    • Presentation virtualization; terminal server infrastructure; resource allocation; application virtualization alternatives; application deployment; System Center Configuration Manager
  • Provision data
    • Shared resources; offline data access

Planning for business continuity and high availability (19%)

  • Plan storage
    • Storage solutions; storage management
  • Plan high availability
    • Service redundancy; service availability
  • Plan for backup and recovery
    • Data recovery strategy; server recovery strategy; directory service recovery strategy; object level recovery

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