Exam 70-332:

Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

Published:February 01, 2013
Language(s):English, Japanese
Audience(s):IT Professionals
Technology:Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
Type:Proctored Exam

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Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam typically have more than four years of hands-on experience planning and maintaining SharePoint and other core technologies upon which SharePoint depends, including Windows Server 2008 R2 or later, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 or later, Active Directory, and networking infrastructure services.
The minimally qualified candidate typically:

The candidate is an IT professional who plans, implements, and maintains a multi-server deployment of SharePoint 2013. Has a working knowledge of and hands-on experience with SharePoint Online. Has broad familiarity with SharePoint workloads. Have experience with business continuity management, including data backup, restoration, and high availability. Has experience with authentication and security technologies. Has experience with Windows PowerShell.

Hands-on experience or job experience is considered a solutions-based role where the candidate works within the solutions space covered by SharePoint, working on multiple solutions that include document management, content management, and search.
Credit Toward CertificationExam 70-332: Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): SharePoint
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Skills Being MeasuredThis exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.

The information after “This objective may include but is not limited to” is intended to further define or scope the objective by describing the types of skills and topics that may be tested for the objective. However, it is not an exhaustive list of skills and topics that could be included on the exam for a given skill area. You may be tested on other skills and topics related to the objective that are not explicitly listed here.
Plan Business Continuity Management (21 percent)
  • Plan for SQL high availability and disaster recovery.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: plan for SQL Server mirroring, plan for SQL Server clustering, plan for SQL Server AlwaysOn, plan for SQL Server Log Shipping, plan for storage redundancy, plan for login replication
  • Plan SharePoint high availability.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: plan for service distribution, plan for service instance configuration, plan for physical server distribution, plan for network redundancy, plan for server load balancing, plan for SQL Server aliases
  • Plan backup and restore.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: establish a SharePoint backup schedule, establish a SQL Server backup schedule, plan a non-production environment content refresh, plan for farm configuration recovery, plan for service application recovery, plan for content recovery
Plan a SharePoint Environment (20 percent)
  • Plan a social workload.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: plan communities, plan My Sites, plan social permissions, plan user profiles, plan activity feeds, plan connections
  • Plan and configure a search workload.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: plan and configure search result relevancy, plan and configure index freshness, plan and configure result sources, plan and configure the end-user experience, plan and configure a search schema, analyze search analytics reports
  • Plan and configure a Web Content Management (WCM) workload.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: plan and configure channels, plan and configure product catalog and topic pages, plan and configure Design Manager, plan and configure content deployment, plan and configure display templates, plan and configure variations
  • Plan an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) workload.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: plan and configure E-Discovery, plan and configure document routing, plan and configure co-authoring, plan and configure record disposition and retention, plan large document repositories, plan and configure software boundaries
Upgrade and Migrate a SharePoint Environment (20 percent)
    • Evaluate content and customizations.
      • This objective may include but is not limited to: perform migration pre-check tasks, analyze content database test results, configure web application authentication for upgrade, resolve orphan objects, resolve missing file system components, resolve configuration conflict issues
    • Plan an upgrade process.
      • This objective may include but is not limited to: plan removal of servers in rotation, configure a parallel upgrade, configure read-only access for content, configure upgrade farms, measure upgrade performance, plan an installation sequence
    • Upgrade site collection.
      • This objective may include but is not limited to: perform a health check, analyze and resolve health check results, plan and configure available site collection modes, plan and configure site collection upgrade availability, plan and configure EVAL mode, plan and configure site collection upgrade throttling
    Create and Configure Service Applications (21 percent)
    • Create and configure App Management.
      • This objective may include but is not limited to: create and configure the App Store, create and configure subscriptions, configure marketplace connections, configure DNS entries, configure wildcard certificates
    • Create and configure productivity services.
      • This objective may include but is not limited to: create and configure Microsoft Excel Services, Microsoft Access services, Microsoft Visio services, Microsoft Word Automation services, Microsoft PowerPoint Conversion services, and Translation Services
    • Configure service application federation.
      • This objective may include but is not limited to: plan services to federate, perform a certificate exchange, manage trusts, manage service application permissions, publish service applications, consume service applications
    • Create and configure a Business Connectivity Service (BCS) and Secure Store application.
      • This objective may include but is not limited to: import and configure BCS models, configure BCS model security, configure BCS for search, generate a Secure Store master key, manage Secure Store target application permissions, create Secure Store target applications
    Manage SharePoint Solutions, BI, and Systems Integration (18 percent)
    • Manage SharePoint solutions and applications.
      • This objective may include but is not limited to: manage sandbox solution quotas, configure sandbox solution management, deploy farm solutions, upgrade farm solutions, deploy Apps, upgrade Apps
    • Plan and configure a BI infrastructure.
      • This objective may include but is not limited to: plan and configure Performance Point, plan and configure reporting services, plan and configure PowerPivot, plan and configure Excel Services, plan and configure PowerView, plan and configure BI security
    • Create and configure work management.
      • This objective may include but is not limited to: configure a connection to Exchange, configure a connection to Microsoft Project Server, manage trusts, plan Exchange configuration for E-Discovery
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