Preparation Guide for Exam 70-225
Designing and Deploying a Messaging Infrastructure with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
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 | Exam news |
| Audience profile |
| Credit toward certification |
| Preparation tools and resources |
| Skills measured |
Exam news
Exam 70-225 became available on March 30, 2001.
| • | This exam retired in March 2008 |
Audience profile
Candidates for this exam operate in medium-sized to very large computing environments that have 5,000 or more client computers and that use Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Active Directory, and Internet Information Server (IIS). They have a minimum of one year of experience in managing Microsoft Exchange environments that have the following characteristics:
| • | Multiple physical locations. |
| • | Mixed client connection protocols, such as POP3, IMAP4, MAPI, NNTP, and HTTP mail. |
| • | Internet messaging connectivity. |
| • | Connectivity to foreign mail systems. |
| • | Multiple or complex name resolution systems. |
Credit toward certification
When you pass the Designing and Deploying a Messaging Infrastructure with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server exam, you achieve Microsoft Certified Professional status. You also earn credit toward the following certifications:
| • | Elective credit toward Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Microsoft Windows 2000 certification |
| • | Elective credit toward Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 certification |
Preparation tools and resources
In addition to your hands-on experience working with the product, we recommend that you use the following tools and training to help you prepare for this exam.
Classroom training for this exam
| • | Course 1572: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange 2000 |
| • | Course 1573: Designing Microsoft Exchange 2000 for the Enterprise |
| • | Course 2355: Upgrading from Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 to Microsoft Exchange 2000 (no longer available) |
Microsoft Press self-paced training products
| • | MCSE Training Kit: Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Design and Deployment |
Microsoft certified practice tests
| • | MeasureUp: Visit the MeasureUp Web site to take a practice test. |
| • | Self Test Software: Visit the Self Test Software Web site to take a practice test. |
Microsoft online resources
| • | TechNet: Designed for IT professionals, this site includes how-to instructions, best practices, downloads, technical chats, and much more. |
| • | MSDN: The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is a reference for developers. It features code samples, technical articles, newsgroups, chats, and more. |
| • | Training and certification newsgroups: There is a newsgroup for every Microsoft certification. By participating in the ongoing dialogue, you take advantage of a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with and ask questions of others, including more than 750 Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) worldwide. |
Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to implement, administer, and troubleshoot information systems that incorporate Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Before taking the exam, you should be proficient in the job skills listed in the following matrix. The matrix shows which Official Microsoft Learning Products may help you reach competency in the skills being tested in the exam.
| KEY: |  = The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.  = The course includes some material to prepare you for this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.  = The course includes material to prepare you for this task. |
| Skills measured by Exam 70-225 | Course 1572 | Course 1573 | Course 2355 | ||||||||||||||
| Analyzing Business Requirements | |||||||||||||||||
Analyze factors that influence organizational policy requirements. Factors include planned mergers and acquisitions, and existing and planned human resources. |  | ||||||||||||||||
Analyze the existing and planned business models. Considerations include user distribution, and user mail needs and habits. | | ||||||||||||||||
Analyze the existing and planned business security model. | | ||||||||||||||||
Analyze the existing and planned administrative model. | | ||||||||||||||||
| Analyzing Existing and Planned Resources | |||||||||||||||||
Analyze existing server roles. Factors include existing and anticipated server load. Roles include mailbox server, public folder server, and bridgehead server. | | ||||||||||||||||
Analyze existing and planned network resources. Resources include hardware, available bandwidth, network topology, and firewall configuration. | | ||||||||||||||||
Analyze existing directory and name resolution configurations. | | ||||||||||||||||
Analyze the impact of Exchange 2000 Server on the existing and planned network. Considerations include requirements for local authentication servers and local global catalog servers, delegation and rights assignments, bandwidth, and messaging traffic. | | ||||||||||||||||
Analyze the existing messaging system architecture and potential changes to this architecture. Considerations include potential message routing changes, client computer access changes, administrative model changes, and changes to messaging-based applications. | | ||||||||||||||||
Analyze existing messaging client configurations. Considerations include hardware, operating system, access methods, existing message store requirements, and existing messaging client. |  | ||||||||||||||||
| Designing an Exchange 2000 Server Messaging Solution | |||||||||||||||||
Design an Exchange 2000 Server routing group topology. | | ||||||||||||||||
Design an Exchange 2000 Server administrative model. Considerations include organizational unit (OU) structure, policies, administrative group placement and boundaries, permissions, and multiple stores. | | ||||||||||||||||
Design an Exchange 2000 Server real-time collaboration solution that uses Chat Service, Instant Messaging, or both. |  | ||||||||||||||||
Plan public folder usage and implementation. Considerations include company structure, geographical structure, maintenance policies, permissions, replication, and indexing. | | ||||||||||||||||
Design an Exchange 2000 Server security plan.
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Plan for coexistence of Exchange 2000 Server with other messaging systems.
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Design inter-organizational connectivity and synchronization. Considerations include existing Active Directory environment, existing DNS configuration, Active Directory Connector (ADC) configuration, security permissions, and administrative permissions and delegation. | | ||||||||||||||||
Designate and design servers. Server configurations include front end, back end, connector, client computer access, Chat Service, Instant Messaging, free/busy, virtual vs. physical, mailbox, public folder, and multiple protocol. | | ||||||||||||||||
Plan traffic flow. Considerations include ADC computer and bridgeheads, routing group boundaries, bandwidth, directory replication, public folder replication, existing network connection, and Site Replication Service (SRS). | | | |||||||||||||||
Design server hardware and disk configurations to achieve fault tolerance and increased performance and to provide for a backup strategy, based on server role. | | ||||||||||||||||
Design an upgrade or migration strategy. Considerations include primary vs. non-primary connections, and use of the appropriate version of ADC.
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Design a strategy for mail access. Messaging clients include MAPI, IMAP4, POP3, and HTTP mail. | | ||||||||||||||||
| Designing for Fault Tolerance and Data Recovery | |||||||||||||||||
Design a backup solution. Considerations include planning backup scope, defining the backup schedule, media storage and rotation, and backup type. | | | |||||||||||||||
Design a recovery solution. Considerations include recovering the entire messaging system, individual databases, and servers; re-associating user mailboxes with accounts; and designing mailbox stores to support recovery. | | | |||||||||||||||
Design fault tolerance solutions. | | ||||||||||||||||
| Deploying an Exchange 2000 Server Messaging Solution | |||||||||||||||||
Deploy routing groups and foreign connectors. | | ||||||||||||||||
Deploy administrative groups. | | ||||||||||||||||
Plan deployments of messaging clients, such as MAPI, IMAP4, POP3, and HTTP mail. Considerations include policies and profiles, and server scaling. | | ||||||||||||||||
Deploy an Exchange 2000 Server messaging solution in a cluster. | | ||||||||||||||||
Diagnose and resolve coexistence problems.
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Diagnose and resolve other deployment problems.
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