Exam Ref 70-413: Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure

Exam Ref 70-413: Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure

by Paul Ferrill, Tim Ferrill
Released July 2014
Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
ISBN: 9780133967036

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Book description

Fully updated! Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-413 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery designing, and implementing Windows Server infrastructure in an enterprise environment. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSE level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

  • Plan and deploy a server infrastructure

  • Design and implement network infrastructure services

  • Design and implement network access services

  • Design and implement an Active Directory infrastructure (logical)

  • Design and implement an Active Directory infrastructure (physical)

    • This Microsoft Exam Ref:

  • Is fully updated for Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Organizes its coverage by objectives for Exam 70-413

  • Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge candidates

  • Designed for IT professionals responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure in an enterprise-scaled, highly virtualized environment.

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    Table of contents

    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright Page
    3. Contents
    4. Introduction
      1. Microsoft certifications
      2. Acknowledgments
      3. Errata, updates, & book support
      4. We want to hear from you
      5. Stay in touch
    5. Preparing for the exam
    6. Chapter 1 Plan and deploy a server infrastructure
      1. Objective 1.1: Design and plan for an automated server installation strategy
        1. Understanding design considerations for deployment images
        2. Using the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit
        3. Planning for deploying servers to Microsoft Azure IaaS
        4. Planning for deploying servers using System Center App Controller and Windows PowerShell
        5. Planning for multicast deployment
        6. Planning for Windows Deployment Services
        7. Objective summary
        8. Objective review
      2. Objective 1.2: Implement a server deployment infrastructure
        1. Configuring multisite topology and transport servers
        2. Configuring a multiserver topology
        3. Objective summary
        4. Objective review
      3. Objective 1.3: Plan and implement server upgrade and migration
        1. Planning for role migration
        2. Migrating server roles
        3. Migrating servers across domains and forests
        4. Designing a server consolidation strategy
        5. Planning for capacity and resource optimization
        6. Objective summary
        7. Objective review
      4. Objective 1.4: Plan and deploy Virtual Machine Manager services
        1. Designing Virtual Machine Manager service templates
        2. Defining operating system profiles
        3. Configuring hardware and capability profiles
        4. Managing services
        5. Configuring image and template libraries
        6. Managing logical networks
        7. Objective summary
        8. Objective review
      5. Objective 1.5: Plan and implement file and storage services
        1. Incorporating planning considerations
        2. Configuring the iSCSI Target Server
        3. Configuring iSCSI Naming Services (iSNS)
        4. Configuring the Network File System (NFS)
        5. Objective summary
        6. Objective review
      6. Answers
    7. Chapter 2 Design and implement network infrastructure services
      1. Objective 2.1: Design and maintain a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) solution
        1. Designing a highly available DHCP service
        2. Implementing DHCP filtering
        3. Implementing and configuring a DHCP Management Pack
        4. Maintaining a DHCP database
        5. Objective summary
        6. Objective review
      2. Objective 2.2: Design a name resolution solution strategy
        1. Configuring secure name resolution
        2. Supporting DNS interoperability
        3. Managing DNS replication with application partitions
        4. Providing name resolution for IPv6
        5. Supporting single-label DNS name resolution
        6. Designing a DNS zone hierarchy
        7. Objective summary
        8. Objective review
      3. Objective 2.3: Design and manage an IP address management solution
        1. Managing IP addresses with IPAM
        2. Provisioning IPAM
        3. Planning for IPAM server placement
        4. Managing IPAM database storage
        5. Using role-based access control with IPAM
        6. Configuring IPAM auditing
        7. Managing and monitoring multiple DHCP and DNS servers with IPAM
        8. Migrating IP addresses
        9. Configuring data collection for IPAM
        10. Integrating IPAM with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
        11. Objective summary
        12. Objective review
      4. Answers
    8. Chapter 3 Design and implement network access services
      1. Objective 3.1: Design a VPN solution
        1. Deploying certificates
        2. Configuring firewalls
        3. Using client/site-to-site connections
        4. Understanding bandwidth requirements
        5. Understanding protocol implications
        6. Connecting to Microsoft Azure IaaS
        7. Using the Connection Manager Administration Kit (CMAK) for VPN deployment configurations
        8. Objective summary
        9. Objective review
      2. Objective 3.2: Design a DirectAccess solution
        1. Understanding deployment topology
        2. Migrating from Forefront UAG
        3. Using One-Time Password (OTP)
        4. Using enterprise Certificate Authority (CA) certificates
        5. Objective summary
        6. Objective review
      3. Objective 3.3: Design a Web Application Proxy solution
        1. Planning for applications
        2. Using authentication and authorization
        3. Using Workplace Join
        4. Using devices
        5. Using multifactor authentication
        6. Using multifactor access control
        7. Using Single Sign-On (SSO)
        8. Using certificates
        9. Planning access for internal and external clients
        10. Objective summary
        11. Objective review
      4. Objective 3.4: Implement a scalable remote access solution
        1. Configuring site-to-site VPNs
        2. Configuring packet filters
        3. Implementing packet tracing
        4. Implementing multisite remote access
        5. Configuring remote access clustered with NLB
        6. Implementing an advanced DirectAccess solution
        7. Configuring multiple RADIUS server groups and infrastructure
        8. Configuring Web Application Proxy for clustering
        9. Objective summary
        10. Objective review
      5. Objective 3.5: Design and implement a network protection solution
        1. Configuring NAP enforcement methods
        2. Designing an NPS infrastructure
        3. Configuring NAP enforcement for IPsec and 802.1x
        4. Monitoring for compliance
        5. Objective summary
        6. Objective review
      6. Answers
    9. Chapter 4 Design and implement an Active Directory infrastructure (logical)
      1. Objective 4.1: Design a forest and domain infrastructure
        1. Building multiforest structures and trust relationships
        2. Managing functional levels and domain upgrades
        3. Altering the forest structure
        4. Implementing hybrid cloud services, including Microsoft Azure Active Directory and DirSync
        5. Objective summary
        6. Objective review
      2. Objective 4.2: Implement a forest and domain infrastructure
        1. Configuring domain rename
        2. Configuring Kerberos realm trusts
        3. Implementing a domain upgrade
        4. Implementing a domain migration
        5. Implementing a forest restructure
        6. Deploying and managing a test forest
        7. Objective summary
        8. Objective review
      3. Objective 4.3: Design a Group Policy strategy
        1. Controlling GPO application
        2. Managing GPO assignment
        3. Using Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM)
        4. Group Policy caching
        5. Objective summary
        6. Objective review
      4. Objective 4.4: Design an Active Directory permission model
        1. Designing and implementing Active Directory object security
        2. Managing Active Directory quotas
        3. Creating custom tasks using the Delegation of Control Wizard
        4. Deploying administration tools
        5. Delegating permissions on administrative users (AdminSDHolder)
        6. Planning for Kerberos delegation
        7. Objective summary
        8. Objective review
      5. Answers
    10. Chapter 5 Design and implement an Active Directory infrastructure (physical)
      1. Objective 5.1: Design an Active Directory sites topology
        1. Planning for domain controller proximity
        2. Optimizing Active Directory replication
        3. Designing site links
        4. Identifying and resolving Active Directory replication conflicts
        5. Objective summary
        6. Objective review
      2. Objective 5.2: Design a domain controller strategy
        1. Using the global catalog
        2. Optimizing operations master roles
        3. Planning for read-only domain controller (RODC) placement
        4. Understanding the partial attribute set
        5. Using cloned domain controllers
        6. Choosing domain controller placement
        7. Objective summary
        8. Objective review
      3. Objective 5.3: Design and implement a branch office infrastructure
        1. Improving branch office authentication
        2. Implementing branch office infrastructure requirements
        3. Securing branch office deployments
        4. Objective summary
        5. Objective review
      4. Answers
    11. Index
    12. About the authors
    13. Back Cover

    Product information

    • Title: Exam Ref 70-413: Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure
    • Author(s): Paul Ferrill, Tim Ferrill
    • Release date: July 2014
    • Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
    • ISBN: 9780133967036