Preparation Guide for Exam 70-219

Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure

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	Audience profile
	Credit toward certification
	Preparation tools and resources
	Skills measured

Exam news

Exam 70-219 became available on June 27, 2000.

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Audience profile

Candidates for this exam operate in medium-sized to very large computing environments that use the Windows 2000 network operating system. They have a minimum of one year of experience implementing and administering network operating systems in environments that have the following characteristics:

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Credit toward certification

When you pass the Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure exam, you achieve Microsoft Certified Professional status. You also earn credit toward the following certifications:

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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

Microsoft Press self-paced training products

Microsoft certified practice tests

Microsoft online resources

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Skills measured

This exam measures your ability to analyze the business requirements and design a directory service architecture, including:

In addition, the test measures the skills required to analyze the business requirements for desktop management and design a solution for desktop management that meets business requirements. 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.

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= 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 70-219	Course 1561
Analyzing Business Requirements
Analyze the existing and planned business models. • Analyze the company model and the geographical scope. Models include international, national, regional, branch, and subsidiary offices. • Analyze company processes. Processes include information flow, communication flow, service and product life cycles, and decision-making.
Analyze the existing and planned organizational structures. Considerations include the management model; company organization; vendor, partner, and customer relationships; and acquisition plans.
Analyze factors that influence company strategies. • Identify company priorities. • Identify the projected growth and growth strategy. • Identify relevant laws and regulations. • Identify the company's tolerance for risk. • Identify the total cost of operations.
Analyze the structure of IT management. Considerations include the type of administration, such as centralized or decentralized, funding model, outsourcing, decision-making process, and change-management process.
Analyzing Technical Requirements
Evaluate the company's existing and planned technical environment. • Analyze company size and the distribution of users and resources. • Assess the available connectivity between the geographic locations of work sites and remote sites. • Assess the net available bandwidth. • Analyze performance requirements. • Analyze data and system access patterns. • Analyze network roles and responsibilities. • Analyze security considerations.
Analyze the impact of Active Directory on the existing and planned technical environment. Considerations include Microsoft Exchange 2000. • Assess existing systems and applications. • Identify existing and planned upgrades and rollouts. • Analyze the technical support structure. • Analyze existing and planned network and systems management.
Analyze the business requirements for client computer desktop management. • Analyze end-user work needs. • Identify technical support needs for end users. • Establish the required client computer environment.
Designing a Directory Service Architecture
Define the scope of the Active Directory design.
Design an Active Directory forest and domain structure. • Design a forest and schema structure. • Design a domain structure. • Analyze and optimize trust relationship requirements.
Design an Active Directory naming strategy. • Plan the WINS NetBIOS name resolution strategy. • Design the namespace. • Plan the DNS strategy.
Design and plan the structure of organizational units. Considerations include administrative control, existing domain structures, administrative policy, and geographic and company structure. • Develop an organizational unit delegation plan. • Plan Group Policy object management. • Develop a change in the configuration management plan for client computers.
Plan for the coexistence of Active Directory and other directory services.
Design a schema modification policy.
Design an Active Directory implementation plan.
Designing Service Locations
Design the placement of operations masters. Considerations include performance, fault tolerance, functionality, and manageability.
Design the placement of global catalog servers. Considerations include performance, fault tolerance, functionality, and manageability.
Design the placement of domain controllers. Considerations include performance, fault tolerance, functionality, and manageability.
Design the placement of DNS, WINS, and DHCP servers. Considerations include performance, fault tolerance, functionality, manageability, and interoperability.
Design an Active Directory site topology. • Design a replication strategy. • Define site boundaries.

Note This preparation guide is subject to change at any time without prior notice and at the sole discretion of Microsoft. Microsoft exams might include adaptive testing technology and simulation items. Microsoft does not identify the format in which exams are presented. Please use this preparation guide to prepare for the exam, regardless of its format.

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