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Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Win Server 2012 R2(70-417)

(70-417-complete) / ISBN : 978-1-61691-756-2
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Microsoft's Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Windows Server 2012 certification is an industry-recognized credential. The 70-417 exam is based on the combined objectives of the 70-410, 70-411, and 70-412 exams. The exam focuses on a candidate's knowledge and ability to install and configure servers; install and administer Active Directory; deploy, manage, and maintain servers; configure and manage Group Policy; configure and manage high availability, and configure access and information protection solutions.
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1

Install Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Features and Advantages of Windows Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2
  • Planning the Windows Server 2012 R2 Installation
  • Understanding Features On Demand
  • Storage in Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
2

Configure Network Services

  • Introducing DNS
  • Introducing DNS Database Zones
  • Advantages of DNS in Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Introducing DNS Record Types
  • Configuring DNS
  • Monitoring and Troubleshooting DNS
  • Overview of DHCP
  • Installing and Authorizing DHCP
  • Creating and Managing DHCP Scopes
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
3

Plan and Install Active Directory

  • Verifying the File system
  • Verifying Network Connectivity
  • Understanding Domain and Forest Functionality
  • Planning the Domain Structure
  • Installing Active Directory
  • Verifying Active Directory Installation
  • Creating and Configuring Application Data Partitions
  • Configuring DNS Integration with Active Directory
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
4

Configure Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Understanding File Servers
  • Configuring File Servers
  • Configuring Disk Quotas
  • Configuring Print Services
  • Configuring Remote Management
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
5

Administer Active Directory

  • An Overview of OUs
  • Planning the OU Structure
  • Creating OUs
  • Managing OUs
  • Troubleshooting OUs
  • Creating and Managing Active Directory Objects
  • Publishing Active Directory Objects
  • Using the Command Prompt for Active Directory Configuration
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
6

Manage GPOs

  • Introducing Group Policy
  • Planning a Group Policy Strategy
  • Implementing Group Policy
  • Managing Group Policy
  • Deploying Software Through a GPO
  • Implementing Software Deployment
  • Configuring Software Deployment Settings
  • Troubleshooting Group Policies
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
7

Manage Security

  • Managing Security
  • Implementing an Audit Policy
  • Configuring Windows Firewall Options
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
8

Configure TCP/IP

  • Understanding TCP/IP
  • Understanding IP Addressing
  • Subnetting a Network
  • Understanding IPv6
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
9

Use Virtualization in Windows Server 2012

  • Hyper-V Overview
  • Hyper-V Installation and Configuration
  • Configuring Virtual Machines
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
10

Manage and Maintain Servers

  • Using Windows Deployment Services
  • Configuring Windows Server Update Services
  • Overview of Windows Server 2012 R2 Performance Monitoring
  • Using Windows Server 2012 R2 Performance Tools
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
11

Manage File Services

  • Configuring File Server Resource Manager
  • Configure File and Disk Encryption
  • Configuring Distributed File System
  • Implementing an Audit Policy
  • Making Active Directory Objects Available to Users
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
12

Configure DNS

  • Introducing DNS
  • Introducing DNS Database Zones
  • Advantages of DNS in Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Introducing DNS Record Types
  • Configuring DNS
  • Monitoring and Troubleshooting DNS
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
13

Configure Routing and Remote Access

  • Overview of Dial-Up Networking
  • Overview of Virtual Private Networks
  • Configuring Your Remote Access Server
  • Understanding a VPN
  • Configuring a VPN
  • Managing Your Remote Access Server
  • Configuring a VPN Client
  • Configuring a Web Application Proxy
  • Understanding DirectAccess
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
14

Configure a Network Policy Server Infrastructure

  • Overview of Wireless Access
  • Remote Access Security
  • Configuring User Access
  • Configuring Security
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
15

Configure and Manage Active Directory

  • Active Directory Security Overview
  • Implementing Active Directory Security
  • Using Group Policy for Security
  • Managing Multiple Domains
  • Maintain Active Directory
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
16

Configure and Manage Group Policy

  • Introducing Group Policy Objects
  • Planning a Group Policy Strategy
  • Implementing Group Policy
  • Managing Group Policy
  • Deploying Software Through a GPO
  • Implementing Software Deployment
  • Configuring Software Deployment Settings
  • Troubleshooting Group Policies
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
17

Configure and Manage High Availability

  • Components of High Availability
  • Achieving High Availability
  • Configure Network Load Balancing
  • Achieving High Availability with Failover Clustering
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Clustering Features
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
18

Configure File and Storage Solutions

  • Configure Advanced File Services
  • Implement Dynamic Access Control
  • Configure and Optimize Storage
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
19

Implement Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

  • Protecting the System
  • Backup and Recovery of Active Directory
  • Understanding Shadow Copies
  • Using Advanced Boot Options
  • Configure Site-Level Fault Tolerance
  • Using the Startup Repair Tool
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
20

Configure Advanced Network Services

  • Working with Advanced DHCP Configuration Options
  • The Ins and Outs of DNS
  • IPAM Administration 101
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
21

Configure the Active Directory Infrastructure

  • Overview of Network Planning
  • Overview of Active Directory Replication and Sites
  • Implementing Sites and Subnets
  • Configuring Replication
  • Monitoring and Troubleshooting Active Directory Replication
  • Reasons for Creating Multiple Domains
  • Creating Domain Trees and Forests
  • Demoting a Domain Controller
  • Managing Multiple Domains
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
22

Configure Access and Information Protection Solutions

  • What's New in Windows Server 2012 R2 with Active Directory Certificate Services?
  • Implement Active Directory Federation Services
  • Workplace Join
  • Active Directory Rights Management Services
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

1

Install Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Installing Windows Server Migration Tools
  • Converting the GUI interface to the Server Core interface
  • Installing the FTP server under the Web Server role
  • Installing the Group Policy Management Tools feature
  • Starting the Windows PowerShell utility
  • Initializing disk drives
  • Converting a basic disk into a dynamic disk
  • Configuring an iSCSI storage connection
  • Configuring the iSNS feature
2

Configure Network Services

  • Setting dynamic updates
  • Creating DNS resource records
  • Creating DNS domains
  • Performing simple DNS tests
  • Installing DHCP Server
  • Configuring a DHCP Server
  • Unauthorizing a DHCP Server
  • Authorizing a DHCP Server
  • Creating a new user class
  • Configuring user class options
3

Plan and Install Active Directory

  • Viewing disk configuration
  • Installing the Active Directory Domain Services role
  • Installing AD DS on server core
4

Configure Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Monitoring the routing status
  • Configuring a shared network folder for offline access
  • Creating a Share with Server Manager
  • Configuring offline folder options
  • Defining a new quota entry
  • Configuring disk quotas
  • Installation of the Print and Document Services Role
  • Installing a new printer
  • Scheduling Printer Access
  • Deploying printers using Active Directory
  • Adding and removing groups from a printer's properties
  • Installing an Internet Printing client
  • Installing the Windows Migration feature using PowerShell
5

Administer Active Directory

  • Creating an organizational unit using Active Directory Users and Computers
  • Moving an organizational unit
  • Delegating custom tasks
  • Deleting an OU
  • Creating a group using Active Directory Administrative Center
  • Creating and publishing a shared folder
  • Creating computer objects
  • Creating a user template
  • Creating a single user
  • Resetting an existing computer account
  • Resetting a password
  • Managing group properties
  • Creating a global security group
  • Managing object properties
  • Nesting objects
  • Delegating administration
  • Creating and publishing a shared folder
  • Managing printers
  • Creating an organizational unit using Windows PowerShell
6

Manage GPOs

  • Deleting the web browsing history
  • Adding a group to the GPO
  • Creating and linking a new GPO to an OU
  • Applying maximum security log size
  • Configuring the Certificate Services Client - Auto Enrollment policy
  • Creating group policy objects from Starter GPO
  • Removing groups from GPOs
  • Defining software restrictions policies
7

Manage Security

  • Viewing auditing data
  • Enabling audit logon events for success and failure
  • Creating an inbound rule
  • Allowing apps through the Windows Firewall Control Panel
8

Configure TCP/IP

  • Enabling DHCP-DNS Integration
  • Enabling DNS Recursive Name Server IPv6 Address List
  • Creating a DHCPv4 Scope
  • Locating the DHCPv4 Scope
  • Installing IPAM Server
9

Use Virtualization in Windows Server 2012

  • Creating a virtual hard disk
  • Installing the Hyper-V role
  • Installing the Web Server IIS server role
  • Editing a virtual hard disk file
  • Creating a virtual switch
  • Installing the Hyper-V Management Tools feature
  • Creating a VM with an existing virtual hard disk
  • Creating a Pass-through disk
  • Creating a snapshot
  • Applying a snapshot
  • Configuring a dynamic memory
  • Creating a virtual network
10

Manage and Maintain Servers

  • Installing a WSUS server
  • Configuring a WSUS server
  • Configuring a GPO for WSUS
  • Installing SNMP
  • Configuring SNMP
11

Manage File Services

  • Enabling BitLocker
  • Installing the DFS role services
  • Enabling auditing of Active Directory objects
12

Configure DNS

  • Installing a DNS server
  • Configuring a zone for dynamic updates
  • Testing a DNS server
13

Configure Routing and Remote Access

  • Configuring an incoming connection
  • Changing remote access logging settings
  • Installing RRAS for IP routing
  • Creating a VPN Network Access Policy
14

Configure a Network Policy Server Infrastructure

  • Creating a Network Access Policy
  • Restricting a user profile for dial-in access
15

Configure and Manage Active Directory

  • Applying security policies by using Group Policy
  • Enabling an active desktop
  • Prohibiting user access to Control Panel and PC
  • Managing trust relationships
  • Adding and removing a UPN suffix
  • Managing global catalog servers
16

Configure and Manage Group Policy

  • Applying security policy settings
  • Editing a new GPO
  • Creating a Starter GPO
  • Creating a GPO and linking it with the existing GPO
  • Creating automatically generated executable rules
17

Configure and Manage High Availability

  • Installing the Failover Clustering feature
  • Creating a Network Load Balancing cluster
  • Running the Validate a Configuration wizard
18

Configure File and Storage Solutions

  • Installing BranchCache
19

Implement Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

  • Installing Windows Server Backup
  • Backing up Active Directory
  • Configuring a shadow copy on a volume
20

Configure Advanced Network Services

  • Creating an IPv4 Superscope
  • Creating a New Multicast Scope
  • Creating a DHCPv6 Scope
21

Configure the Active Directory Infrastructure

  • Creating sites
  • Creating subnets
  • Creating a server in a new site
  • Configuring the site-licensing options in a created site
  • Creating site links
  • Creating site link bridges
  • Moving server objects between sites
  • Assigning single-master operations
  • Managing universal group membership caching
22

Configure Access and Information Protection Solutions

  • Installing Active Directory Certificate Services
  • Configuring Active Directory Certificates
  • Configuring certificate auto enrollment
  • Modifying Authority Information Access (AIA)
  • Backing up the Certification Authority server
  • Revoking a certificate
  • Installing Active Directory Federation Services
  • Configuring the AD FS server
  • Installing Active Directory Rights Management Services

Why Do Learners Love This Course?

I took the Microsoft MCSA 70–417, This course gives you an understanding of the Microsoft Windows server 2012. It covers the installation, managing of servers and its features-Active Directory, Group Policy and Network Services.

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The exam contains 40-60 questions.

120 minutes

The passing score varies from exam to exam and is provided on the score report.

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