Audience Profile
The primary audience for this course is IT professionals, including Windows
2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 enterprise administrators interested in
becoming a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator who focuses on network
solutions.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Active Directory Technology Specialist level knowledge and concepts.
- Network Infrastructure Technology Specialist level knowledge and
experience.
- Applications Infrastructure Technology Specialist level knowledge and
experience.
- Windows Vista TS level of knowledge and experience.
- Intermediate understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, name
resolution, and connection methods.
- Intermediate understanding of security best practices for authentication
and file permissions.
- Intermediate understanding of server and network hardware.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe key components of network infrastructure design.
- Describe how to design a secure network.
- Design a plan for allocating IP addresses to workstations and
servers.
- Design a network topology.
- Describe the internal considerations for network security and how they can
be addressed.
- Design an appropriate name resolution system that incorporates Domain Name
System (DNS).
- Optimize a name resolution system that incorporates DNS and Windows
Internet Name Service (WINS).
- Design a solution for network access.
- Design a Network Access Protection (NAP) solution.
- Design a solution for operating system deployment and maintenance.
- Design the deployment of file services.
- Design print services in Windows Server 2008.
- Design high availability for applications and
services.