Exam 70-413

Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure

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  • Published: December 12, 2012
  • Language(s): English, Japanese
  • Audience(s): IT professionals
  • Technology: Windows Server 2012
  • Credit toward certification: MCSE

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Dear [your boss's name]:

I'd like to expand and prove my technical skills by earning a Microsoft Certification. My next step is taking Exam 70-413: Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure. The registration fee is $150.00 USD.

When I pass this certification, you'll have proof of my ability to work with Windows Server 2012. Microsoft has training and online resources to help me prepare for the exam. I believe I'll be more effective and productive after achieving this valuable technical certification.

Let me know if you have any questions. In the meantime, you can find out more about this exam at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam-70-413.aspx. As you can see, the exam validates skills that are crucial to our team's success.

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Skills measured

This 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.

Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.

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  • Design an automated server installation strategy

    • Design considerations including images and bare metal/virtual deployment; design a server implementation using Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK); design a virtual server deployment

  • Plan and implement a server deployment infrastructure

    • Configure multicast deployment; configure multi-site topology and distribution points; configure a multi-server topology; configure autonomous and replica Windows Deployment Services (WDS) servers

  • Plan and implement server upgrade and migration

    • Plan for role migration; migrate server roles; migrate servers across domains and forests; design a server consolidation strategy; plan for capacity and resource optimization

  • Plan and deploy Virtual Machine Manager services

    • Design Virtual Machine Manager service templates; define operating system profiles; configure hardware and capability profiles; manage services; configure image and template libraries; manage logical networks

  • Plan and implement file and storage services

    • Planning considerations include iSCSI SANs, Fibre Channel SANs, Virtual Fibre Channel, storage spaces, storage pools, and data de-duplication; configure the iSCSI Target server; configure the Internet Storage Name server (iSNS); configure Network File System (NFS); install Device Specific Modules (DSMs)

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  • Design and maintain a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) solution

    • Design considerations including a highly available DHCP solution including split scope, DHCP failover, and DHCP failover clustering, DHCP interoperability, and DHCPv6; implement DHCP filtering; implement and configure a DHCP management pack; maintain a DHCP database

  • Design a name resolution solution strategy

    • Design considerations including secure name resolution, DNSSEC, DNS Socket Pool, cache locking, disjoint namespaces, DNS interoperability, migration to application partitions, IPv6, Single-Label DNS Name Resolution, zone hierarchy, and zone delegation

  • Design and manage an IP address management solution

    • Design considerations including IP address management technologies including IPAM, Group Policy based, manual provisioning, and distributed vs. centralized placement; configure role-based access control; configure IPAM auditing; migrate IPs; manage and monitor multiple DHCP and DNS servers; configure data collection for IPAM

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  • Design a VPN solution

    • Design considerations including certificate deployment, firewall configuration, client/site to site, bandwidth, protocol implications, and VPN deployment configurations using Connection Manager Administration Kit (CMAK)

  • Design a DirectAccess solution

    • Design considerations including topology, migration from Forefront UAG, DirectAccess deployment, and enterprise certificates

  • Implement a scalable remote access solution

    • Configure site-to-site VPN; configure packet filters; implement packet tracing; implement multi-site Remote Access; configure Remote Access clustered with Network Load Balancing (NLB); configure DirectAccess

  • Design a network protection solution

    • Design considerations including Network Access Protection (NAP) enforcement methods for DHCP, IPSec, VPN, and 802.1x, capacity, placement of servers, firewall, Network Policy Server (NPS), and remediation network

  • Implement a network protection solution

    • Implement multi-RADIUS deployment; configure NAP enforcement for IPSec and 802.1x; deploy and configure the Endpoint Protection client; create anti-malware and firewall policies; monitor for compliance

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  • Design a forest and domain infrastructure

    • Design considerations including multi-forest architecture, trusts, functional levels, domain upgrade, domain migration, forest restructure, and hybrid cloud services

  • Implement a forest and domain infrastructure

    • Configure domain rename; configure Kerberos realm trusts; implement a domain upgrade; implement a domain migration; implement a forest restructure; deploy and manage a test forest including synchronization with production forests

  • Design a Group Policy strategy

    • Design considerations including inheritance blocking, enforced policies, loopback processing, security, and WMI filtering, site-linked Group Policy Objects (GPOs), slow-link processing, group strategies, organizational unit (OU) hierarchy, and Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM)

  • Design an Active Directory permission model

    • Design considerations including Active Directory object security and Active Directory quotas; customize tasks to delegate in Delegate of Control Wizard; deploy administrative tools on the client computer; delegate permissions on administrative users (AdminSDHolder); configure Kerberos delegation

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  • Design an Active Directory sites topology

    • Design considerations including proximity of domain controllers, replication optimization, and site link; monitor and resolve Active Directory replication conflicts

  • Design a domain controller strategy

    • Design considerations including global catalog, operations master roles, Read-Only Domain Controllers (RODCs), partial attribute set, and domain controller cloning

  • Design and implement a branch office infrastructure

    • Design considerations including RODC, Universal Group Membership Caching (UGMC), global catalog, DNS, DHCP, and BranchCache; implement confidential attributes; delegate administration; modify filtered attributes set; configure password replication policy; configure hash publication

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    WDS Replica?

    Posted by jason_yates on 10 May 2013 at 22:40 GMT

    Exam objectives state:

    configure autonomous and replica Windows Deployment Services (WDS) servers.

     

    There is nothing out there on such configuration - but plenty on WSUS.   I think this is an error.

    If what you mean by autonomous is "stand alone" then the objectives should say stand-alone.   Too confusing - (unless this obscurity is intended- in which case I would say you need to update your PR because you've said you don't create trick questions)

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Who should take this exam?

This exam is part one of a series of two exams that test the skills and knowledge necessary to design, implement, and maintain a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure in an enterprise scaled, highly virtualized environment. Passing this exam validates a candidate’s ability to plan, configure, and implement the Windows Server 2012 services, such as server deployment, server virtualization, and network access and infrastructure. Passing this exam along with the other exam confirms that a candidate has the skills and knowledge necessary for designing, deploying, and maintaining infrastructure services in a Windows Server 2012 environment.

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