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NoneTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a glance
- Contents
- Introduction
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Chapter 1. Install Windows Servers in host and compute environments
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Skill 1.1: Install, upgrade, and migrate servers and workloads
- Determine Windows Server 2016 installation requirements
- Determine appropriate Windows Server 2016 editions per workloads
- Install Windows Server 2016
- Install Windows Server 2016 features and roles
- Install and configure Windows Server Core
- Manage Windows Server Core installations using Windows PowerShell, command line, and remote management capabilities
- Implement Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) to install and maintain integrity of installed environments
- Perform upgrades and migrations of servers and core workloads from Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2016
- Determine the appropriate activation model for server installation
- Skill 1.2: Install and configure Nano Server
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Skill 1.3: Create, manage, and maintain images for deployment
- Plan for Windows Server virtualization
- Plan for Linux and FreeBSD deployments
- Assess virtualization workloads using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit
- Determine considerations for deploying workloads into virtualized environments
- Update images with patches, hotfixes, and drivers
- Install Roles and Features in offline images
- Manage and maintain Windows Server Core, Nano Server images, and VHDs using Windows PowerShell
- Chapter summary
- Thought experiment
- Thought experiment answer
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Skill 1.1: Install, upgrade, and migrate servers and workloads
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Chapter 2. Implement storage solutions
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Skill 2.1: Configure disks and volumes
- Configure sector sizes appropriate for various workloads
- Configure GUID partition table (GPT) disks
- Booting from GPT disks
- Create VHD and VHDX files using Server Manager or Windows PowerShell
- Mount Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs)
- Determine when to use NTFS and ReFS File Systems
- Configure NFS and SMB shares using Server Manager
- Configure SMB share and session settings using Windows PowerShell
- Configure SMB server and SMB client configuration settings using Windows PowerShell
- Configure file and folder permissions
- Understanding resource ownership
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Skill 2.2: Implement server storage
- Configure storage pools
- Implement simple, mirror, and parity storage layout options for disks or enclosures
- Configure tiered storage
- Configure iSCSI target and initiator
- Configure iSNS
- Configure Datacenter Bridging (DCB)
- Configure Multipath I/O (MPIO)
- Determine usage scenarios for Storage Replica
- Implement Storage Replica for server-to-server, cluster-to-cluster, and stretch cluster scenarios
- Skill 2.3: Implement data deduplication
- Chapter summary
- Thought experiment
- Thought experiment answer
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Skill 2.1: Configure disks and volumes
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Chapter 3. Implement Hyper-V
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Skill 3.1: Install and configure Hyper-V
- Determine hardware and compatibility requirements for installing Hyper-V
- Install Hyper-V
- Install management tools
- Upgrade from existing versions of Hyper-V
- Delegate virtual machine management
- Perform remote management of Hyper-V hosts
- Configure virtual machines using Windows PowerShell Direct
- Implement nested virtualization
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Skill 3.2: Configure virtual machine (VM) settings
- Creating a virtual machine
- Add or remove memory in running a VM
- Configure dynamic memory
- Configure Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) support
- Configure smart paging
- Configure resource metering
- Manage Integration Services
- Create and configure Generation 1 and 2 VMs and determine appropriate usage scenarios
- Implement enhanced session mode
- Create Linux and FreeBSD VMs
- Install and configure Linux Integration Services (LIS)
- Install and configure FreeBSD Integration Services (BIS)
- Implement Secure Boot for Windows and Linux environments
- Move and convert VMs from previous versions of Hyper-V to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
- Export and import VMs
- Implement Discrete Device Assignment (DDA)
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Skill 3.3: Configure Hyper-V storage
- Create VHDs and VHDX files using Hyper-V Manager
- Create shared VHDX files
- Configure differencing disks
- Modify virtual hard disks
- Configure pass-through disks
- Resize a virtual hard disk
- Manage checkpoints
- Implement production checkpoints
- Implement a virtual fibre channel adapter
- Configure Storage Quality of Service (QoS)
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Skill 3.4: Configure Hyper-V networking
- Add and remove virtual network interface cards (vNICs)
- Configure Hyper-V virtual switches
- Optimize network performance
- Configure MAC addresses
- Configure network isolation
- Configure synthetic and legacy virtual network adapters
- Configure NIC teaming in VMs
- Configure virtual machine queue (VMQ)
- Enable Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) on network adapters bound to a Hyper-V virtual switch using Switch Embedded Teaming (SET)
- Configure bandwidth management
- Chapter summary
- Thought experiment
- Thought experiment answer
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Skill 3.1: Install and configure Hyper-V
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Chapter 4. Implement Windows containers
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Skill 4.1: Deploy Windows containers
- Determine installation requirements and appropriate scenarios for Windows containers
- Install and configure Windows Server Container Host in physical or virtualized environments
- Install and configure Windows Server container host to Windows Server Core or Nano Server in a physical or virtualized environment
- Install Docker on Windows Server and Nano Server
- Configure Docker Daemon start-up options
- Configure Windows PowerShell for use with containers
- Install a base operating system
- Tag an image
- Uninstall an operating system image
- Create Windows Server containers
- Create Hyper-V containers
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Skill 4.2: Manage Windows containers
- Manage Windows or Linux containers using the Docker daemon
- Manage Windows or Linux containers using Windows PowerShell
- Manage container networking
- Manage container data volumes
- Manage resource control
- Create new container images using Dockerfile
- Manage container images using DockerHub Repository for public and private scenarios
- Manage container images using Microsoft Azure
- Chapter summary
- Thought experiment
- Thought experiment answer
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Skill 4.1: Deploy Windows containers
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Chapter 5. Implement high availability
- Skill 5.1: Implement high availability and disaster recovery options in Hyper-V
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Skill 5.2: Implement failover clustering
- Implement workgroup, single, and multi domain clusters
- Configure quorum
- Configure cluster networking
- Restore single node or cluster configuration
- Configure cluster storage
- Implement cluster-aware updating
- Implement cluster operating system rolling upgrade
- Configure and optimize clustered shared volumes (CSVs)
- Configure clusters without network names
- Implement Scale-Out File Server (SoFS)
- Determine different scenarios for the use of SoFS vs. clustered file server
- Determine usage scenarios for implementing guest clustering
- Implement a clustered Storage Spaces solution using shared SAS storage enclosures
- Implement Storage Replica
- Implement cloud witness
- Implement VM resiliency
- Implement shared VHDX as a storage solution for guest clusters
- Skill 5.3: Implement Storage Spaces Direct
- Skill 5.4: Manage failover clustering
- Skill 5.5: Manage VM movement in clustered nodes
- Skill 5.6: Implement Network Load Balancing (NLB)
- Chapter summary
- Thought experiment
- Thought experiment answer
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Chapter 6. Maintain and monitor server environments
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Skill 6.1: Maintain server installations
- Implement Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) solutions
- Configure WSUS groups
- Manage patch management in mixed environments
- Implement an antimalware solution with Windows Defender
- Integrate Windows Defender with WSUS and Windows Update
- Perform backup and restore operations using Windows Server Backup
- Determine backup strategies for different Windows Server roles and workloads, including Hyper-V Host, Hyper-V Guests, Active Directory, File Servers, and Web Servers using Windows Server 2016 native tools and solutions
- Skill 6.2: Monitor server installations
- Chapter summary
- Thought experiment
- Thought experiment answer
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Skill 6.1: Maintain server installations
- Index
- About the author
- Code Snippets
Product information
- Title: Exam Ref 70-740 Installation, Storage and Compute with Windows Server 2016
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- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: None
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