RealCertSM: MCSE exam prep online - 4 core exams

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Benefits to you

The VC is a live, instructor-led workshop online, accessible from anywhere on the world wide web. This is not simple e-mail mentoring--this is identical to our live instructor-led workshops, just online and scheduled at your own pace.An experienced MCSE with a flexible schedule will be ready to tackle the Accelerated Exam or 4 core exams in as little as 3-5 weeks. Students will have up to 90 days to complete their Virtual Classroom studies.Plus, the certAbility examination engine will provide you with experience answering the types of exam items you'll be faced with on test day. You can take certAbility exams as many times as you need to during your 90 day preparation phase.

Next Steps

Complete the RealCert ^SM MCSE Program by signing up and passing courses covering a fifth core and two elective exams. Please refer to the following data sheets for specific requirements:

• RealCert ^SM : MCSE exam prep online -- 5th core exam elective (H7108AAE)
• RealCert ^SM : MCSE exam prep online -- Elective exams (H7108AAE)

Course outline

RealCert ^SM : MCSE exam 70-210

• Exam registration
• Exam strategy
• Installation and deployment
• Hardware requirements
• Attended installations
• Unattended installation: Sysprep
• SysPrep: Under the hood
• Installing over a network
• Unattended installation
• Deploying Windows 2000 using RIS
• Setting up the RIS server
• RIS client requirements
• Creating an RIPrep image
• RIS extras
• RIS troubleshooting
• Upgrading and troubleshooting installations
• Upgrade issues
• Troubleshooting failed installations
• File systems and security
• FAT considerations
• New and improved NTFS
• New features of NTFS 5.0
• Volume mount points and reparse points
• EFS
• Administering resources
• NTFS permissions
• NTFS inheritance rules
• Share permissions
• Shares - Default behavior
• Security configuration
• Printing
• Managing printers and print jobs
• Printer permissions
• IPP (Internet Printing Protocol)
• Disk management
• Disk storage notes
• Basic vs. dynamic disks
• Volume types
• Dynamic volume states
• Dynamic volume limitations
• Terms: Basic vs. dynamic
• Managing hardware devices and drivers
• Hardware devices and drivers
• Hardware highlights
• Disk devices
• Display devices
• I/O devices
• Configuring multiple CPU's
• Managing network adapters
• Updating drivers
• Driver signing
• Windows signature verification
• Mobile computing
• Mobile computer hardware
• Power management
• Securing mobile computer hardware
• Using offline files
• Offline files: Rules to know
• Troubleshooting the boot process
• The boot process
• ARC paths in BOOT.INI
• Booting in safe mode
• Running the recovery console
• Recovery console commands
• System file checker
• Windows report tool
• Startup and recovery options
• Emergency Repair Disk (ERD)
• Backing up the system state
• Data recovery
• Managing virtual memory
• Managing the user environment
• Configuring and troubleshooting the desktop environment
• User profiles
• Multiple languages and locations
• Fax support
• Accessibility services
• Accessibility options
• Secondary logon service (Run As)
• Task scheduler
• Remote Access Services (RAS)
• RAS authentication protocols
• RAS connections
• Virtual private networks
• PPTP vs. L2TP
• Multilink support
• Setting callback security
• Group policy
• .POL files
• Group policy snap-in
• What can group policy do?
• Local group policy
• Non-local group policy
• Deploy software by using group policy
• Software deployment options
• Group policy: Out of the box
• Protocols and services
• Network protocols and services
• TCP/IP protocol
• Name resolution
• Automatic private IP addressing
• TCP/IP server utilities
• TCP/IP client utilities
• Troubleshooting TCP/IP
• NWLink (IPX/SPX) & netware interoperability
• Other protocols
• User accounts and authentication
• Local user accounts
• User account tidbits
• Built-in local groups
• Built-in system groups
• Monitoring system performance
• Performance alerts and logs

RealCert ^SM : MCSE exam 70-215

• Exam registration
• Exam strategy
• Hardware requirements
• Windows 2000 server defined
• Windows 2000 server versions
• Upgrading to Windows 2000 server
• Windows 2000 server tasks
• Windows 2000 server installations
• Domain controllers and domain modes
• Promoting a member server to a domain controller
• Windows 2000 domain modes
• Switching from mixed to native mode
• File and disk management
• File system considerations
• Copying/moving files/folders
• Copying/moving encrypted files
• Disk fault tolerance
• Optimize disk performance
• Remote storage
• Network services
• Install and configure network services
• WINS
• DHCP
• Process for DHCP lease
• DHCP server authorization
• DHCP and dynamic update of DNS
• Superscopes and multicast scopes
• DHCP in routed networks
• DNS - Overview
• DNS in a Windows 2000 domain
• Group policy "quick review q"
• RRAS
• RAS policy
• Configuring RAS policy
• Order of RAS policy resolution
• RAS policy caveats
• RAS management issues
• Remote access profile settings
• DFS defined
• DFS (Distributed File System)
• DFS - Standalone vs. domain
• Terminal services
• TS: Under the hood
• Remote server admin using TS
• Configuring TS for application sharing
• TS considerations
• Terminal services client
• TS client configuration
• TS licensing
• Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
• Interoperability
• Connecting dissimilar systems
• TCP/IP "quick review q"
• TCP/IP server utilities
• Services for MacIntosh
• Services for UNIX
• Client for NFS
• Server for NFS
• Gateway for NFS
• Gateway services for NetWare
• NetWare interoperability
• Process management and system recovery
• Recovery console "quick review q"
• Managing processes
• Process priority levels
• System state data
• Recovering system state data

RealCert ^SM : MCSE exam 70-216

• Exam registration
• Exam strategy
• 70-216 strategy specifics
• W2K network infrastructure
• 70-216 exam focus
• Network protocols
• TCP/IP
• Host name resolution
• NetBIOS name resolution
• Name resolution services
• Domain name system
• Installing DNS
• Configuring DNS
• DNS zone properties
• Configuring zone updates
• Secure dynamic updates
• When W2K clients update DNS
• Troubleshooting dynamic updates
• Changing zone types
• Types of DNS zones
• DNS server types
• Some notable DNS records
• Round robin defined
• Configuring round robin
• Zone transfers
• Types of zone transfers
• IPCONFIG grows up
• Forwarders and caching-only servers
• NSLOOKUP
• Windows Internet naming service
• Installing the WINS service
• WINS clients
• Non-WINS clients
• NetBIOS node types
• Managing multiple WINS servers
• WINS replication
• WINS database maintenance
• WINS proxy
• Dynamic host configuration protocol
• Installing the DHCP service
• Authorizing a DHCP server
• DHCP server authorization
• Verifying DHCP authorization
• Scope configuration
• Assigning scope options
• DHCP client reservations
• DHCP clients
• DHCP lease and renewal process
• DHCP in a routed network
• DHCP relay agent
• DHCP and DNS integration!
• Troubleshooting DHCP clients
• Troubleshooting DHCP server
• Remote access services
• Installing and configuring RRAS
• RRAS protocols
• Enabling RRAS authentication
• RRAS callback options
• Multilink support
• Multilink with callback
• Using smart cards
• RRAS permissions
• RAS policies defined
• Configuring RAS policy
• RAS policy notes
• Notable RAS policy options
• Troubleshooting RRAS
• ICS and NAT
• Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
• Enabling ICS
• ICS configuration notes
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Installing NAT
• Enabling NAT addressing
• Enabling NAT name resolution
• TCP/IP subnetting
• IP address classes
• Choosing a subnet mask
• The 7 X 7 grid
• Troubleshooting TCP/IP
• IP routing
• Updating a routing table using static routes
• Routing protocols Ü RIP v1 & v2
• Routing protocols Ü OSPF v2
• Demand-dial routing
• SNMP
• Network monitor
• Network monitor security
• IPSec defined
• Configuring TCP/IP to use an IPSec policy
• IPSec policy properties
• IPSec policy in Active Directory
• Adding or editing an IPSec policy
• Predefined IPSec policies
• IPSec encrypted authentication
• Managing and monitoring IPSec
• Netware interoperability
• Certificate services
• Public and private keys
• Certificate authorities (CA's)
• 4 Possible CA roles
• Configuring a CA
• Issue and revoke certificates
• EFS recovery keys

RealCert ^SM : MCSE exam 70-217

• Exam registration
• Exam strategy
• 70-217 exam focus
• Windows 2000 directory services infrastructure
• Install Active Directory
• Creating domains
• Active Directory tools
• Seeing the trees and the forest
• Domain tree
• Domain forest
• Domain trees & forests
• Trust relationships
• Shortcut (cross-link) trust
• Active Directory database
• Active Directory users and computers
• Domain modes
• Mixed mode domains
• Native mode domains
• Switching from mixed to native mode
• The schema
• Schema management
• AD replication
• Replication services
• Replication admin tools
• Active Directory sites and services
• Sites
• Site configuration
• Server placement
• FSMO's
• Forest-wide FSMO's
• Domain-wide FSMO's
• The 5th FSMO is special
• FSMO placement
• Transfer or seize a FSMO
• Global catalog
• Global catalog server(s)
• Maintaining and troubleshooting AD
• Backup and restore AD
• System state defined
• Non-authoritative restore of AD
• Authoritative restore of AD
• Update Sequence Numbers (USN's)
• Compressing the AD database
• NTDSUTIL
• Taking AD "Offline" to troubleshoot
• DNS for AD
• DNS for Active Directory
• Install DNS for AD
• Configure DNS for AD
• W2K DNS specs
• Placement of DNS servers
• Non-AD DNS implementations
• Secondary & caching-only servers
• Integrating DNS zones
• DNS tidbits
• Configure zones for dynamic updates
• Manage replication of DNS data
• DNS zone transfers
• Manage, monitor & troubleshoot DNS
• Tools for troubleshooting DNS
• Change & configuration management
• Group policy at 40,000 feet
• Group policy capabilities
• Group policy creation
• Group policy object (GPO)
• Delegating control of a GPO
• Group policy illustrated
• Group policy application
• Group policy planning
• GP notes
• Software installation & maintenance
• Application management
• Windows installer MSI's
• Group policy software policy
• Remote Installation Services (RIS)
• Review: W2K installation options
• RIS basics: The network
• RIS basics: The server
• RIS basics: The client
• RIS basics: The PXE boot
• RIS server configuration
• RIS - Terminology extras
• RIS images
• Security
• Prestaging the client
• Additional security
• Prestaged MAO permissions
• User-created MAO
• Computer accounts
• Client Installation wizard
• Control CIW options
• Fine tuning Active Directory
• Managing, monitoring, and optimizing components of AD
• Managing AD objects
• What is MOVETREE?
• Delegation of control wizard
• Managing AD performance
• AD replication
• Replication process
• Simple ring intra-site topology
• Meshed intra-site topology
• Site configuration
• Bridgehead servers
• Intra-site vs. inter-site replication
• Replication admin tools
• AD security solutions
• Active Directory security solutions
• Security policy via group policy
• Creating security configurations
• Security template types
• Predefined security templates
• Implementing an audit policy