Exam News
Exam 70-294 became available August 28, 2003.
Audience Profile
The Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows
Server™ 2003 credential is intended for IT professionals who
work in the typically complex computing environment of medium to
large companies. An MCSE candidate should have at least one year
of experience implementing and administering a network operating
system in environments that have the following characteristics:
- 250 to 5,000 or more users
- Three or more physical locations
- Three or more domain controllers
- Network services and resources such as messaging,
database, file and print, proxy server, firewall, Internet,
intranet, remote access, and client computer management
- Connectivity requirements such as connecting branch
offices and individual users in remote locations to the
corporate network and connecting corporate networks to the
Internet
In addition, an MCSE candidate should have at least one year
of experience in the following areas:
- Implementing and administering a desktop operating system
- Designing a network infrastructure
Credit Toward Certification
When you pass the Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory® Infrastructure
exam, you achieve
Microsoft
Certified Professional (MCP) status. You also earn credit
toward the following certifications:
Preparation Tools and Resources
We make a wealth of preparation tools and resources available
to you, including courses, books, practice tests, and Microsoft
Web sites. When you are ready to prepare for this exam, here's
where you should start.
Instructor-led Course for This Exam
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Course 2279: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure
Skills Being Measured
This certification exam measures your ability to plan,
implement, and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active
Directory infrastructure. Before taking the exam, you should be
proficient in the job skills listed in the following matrix. The
matrix shows which Official Microsoft Learning Products may help
you reach competency in the skills being tested in the exam.
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The course
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The course includes some
material to prepare you for this task. You will need to
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The course provides a general
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Planning and
Implementing an Active Directory Infrastructure |
Plan a strategy for placing
global catalog servers.
- Evaluate network traffic considerations when placing
global catalog servers.
- Evaluate the need to enable universal group caching.
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Plan flexible operations
master role placement.
- Plan for business continuity of operations master
roles.
- Identify operations master role dependencies.
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Implement an Active
Directory directory service forest and domain structure.
- Create the forest root domain.
- Create a child domain.
- Create and configure Application Data Partitions.
- Install and configure an Active Directory domain
controller.
- Set an Active Directory forest and domain functional
level based on requirements.
- Establish trust relationships. Types of trust
relationships might include external trusts, shortcut
trusts, and cross-forest trusts.
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Implement an Active
Directory site topology.
- Configure site links.
- Configure preferred bridgehead servers.
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Plan an administrative
delegation strategy.
- Plan an organizational unit (OU) structure based on
delegation requirements.
- Plan a security group hierarchy based on delegation
requirements.
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Managing and
Maintaining an Active Directory Infrastructure |
Manage an Active Directory
forest and domain structure.
- Manage trust relationships.
- Manage schema modifications.
- Add or remove a UPN suffix.
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Manage an Active Directory
site.
- Configure replication schedules.
- Configure site link costs.
- Configure site boundaries.
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Monitor Active Directory
replication failures. Tools might include Replication
Monitor, Event Viewer, and support tools.
- Monitor Active Directory replication.
- Monitor File Replication service (FRS) replication.
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Restore Active Directory
directory services.
- Perform an authoritative restore operation.
- Perform a nonauthoritative restore operation.
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Troubleshoot Active
Directory.
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to Active
Directory replication.
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to operations
master role failure.
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to the Active
Directory database.
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Planning and
Implementing User, Computer, and Group Strategies |
Plan a security group
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Plan a user authentication
strategy.
- Plan a smart card authentication strategy.
- Create a password policy for domain users.
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Plan an OU structure.
- Analyze the administrative requirements for an OU.
- Analyze the Group Policy requirements for an OU
structure.
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Implement an OU structure.
- Create an OU.
- Delegate permissions for an OU to a user or to a
security group.
- Move objects within an OU hierarchy.
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Planning and
Implementing Group Policy |
Plan Group Policy strategy.
- Plan a Group Policy strategy by using Resultant Set of
Policy (RSoP) Planning mode.
- Plan a strategy for configuring the user environment
by using Group Policy.
- Plan a strategy for configuring the computer
environment by using Group Policy.
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Configure the user
environment by using Group Policy.
- Distribute software by using Group Policy.
- Automatically enroll user certificates by using Group
Policy.
- Redirect folders by using Group Policy.
- Configure user security settings by using Group
Policy.
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Deploy a computer
environment by using Group Policy.
- Distribute software by using Group Policy.
- Automatically enroll computer certificates by using
Group Policy.
- Configure computer security settings by using Group
Policy.
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Managing and
Maintaining Group Policy |
Troubleshoot issues related
to Group Policy application. deployment. Tools might include
RSoP and the gpresult command. |
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Maintain installed software
by using Group Policy.
- Distribute updates to software distributed by Group
Policy.
- Configure automatic updates for network clients by
using Group Policy.
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Troubleshoot the
application of Group Policy security settings. Tools might
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