Preparation Guide for Exam 70-647
PRO: Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator
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 | Exam news |
| Audience profile |
| Credit toward certification |
| Preparation tools and resources |
| Skills measured |
Exam news
Exam 70-647: PRO: Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator became available in April 2008.
Audience profile
The enterprise administrator is responsible for the overall IT environment and architecture. The enterprise administrator translates business goals into technology decisions and designs mid-range to long-term strategies. Enterprise administrators also make key decisions and recommendations about the following:
| • | Network infrastructure |
| • | Directory services, identity management, and authentication |
| • | Security policies |
| • | Business continuity (disaster recovery, personnel/equipment/data) |
| • | Design of IT administrative structure (delegation models) |
| • | Best practices, standards, and SLAs |
The enterprise administrator is responsible for infrastructure design and global configuration changes. The enterprise administrator's job role involves 20 percent operations, 60 percent engineering, and 20 percent support tasks.
Credit toward certification
When you pass Exam 70-647: PRO: Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator you earn credit toward the following certification:
| • | Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Enterprise Administrator |
Preparation tools and resources
To help you prepare for this exam, Microsoft Learning recommends that you have hands-on experience with the product and that you use the following training resources. These training resources do not necessarily cover all of the topics listed in the "Skills measured" section.
| Classroom training | Microsoft E-Learning | Microsoft Press books | Practice tests |
Course 6435: Designing a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (five days; available July 2008) Course 6436: Designing a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Infrastructure and Services (five days; available June 2008) Course 6437: Designing a Windows Server 2008 Application Infrastructure (three days; available May 2008) | Collection 6435: Designing a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (14 hours; available June 2008) Collection 6436: Designing a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Infrastructure and Services (16 hours; available June 2008) Collection 6437: Designing a Windows Server 2008 Application Infrastructure (10 hours; available June 2008) | MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-647): PRO Windows Enterprise Administration (available later in 2008) | MeasureUp (Measureup.com) Self Test Software (Selftestsoftware.com) |
Microsoft online resources
| • | Windows Server 2008 – Learning Portal: Find special offers and information on training and certification. |
| • | Product information: Visit the Windows Server 2008 Web site for detailed product information. |
| • | TechNet: Designed for IT professionals, this site includes how-to instructions, best practices, downloads, technical resources, newsgroups, and chats. |
| • | MSDN: Designed for developers, the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) features code samples, technical articles, downloads, newsgroups, and chats. |
| • | Microsoft Learning Community: Join newsgroups and visit community forums to connect with your peers for suggestions on training resources and advice on your certification path and studies. |
Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed in the following table. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.
| Skills measured by Exam 70-647 |
| Planning Network and Application Services (23 percent) |
Plan for name resolution and IP addressing. May include but is not limited to: internal and external naming strategy, naming resolution support for legacy clients, naming resolution for directory services, IP addressing scheme, TCP/IP version coexistence |
Design for network access. May include but is not limited to: network access policies, remote access strategy, perimeter networks, server and domain isolation |
Plan for application delivery. May include but is not limited to: application virtualization, presentation virtualization, locally installed software, Web-based applications |
Plan for Terminal Services. May include but is not limited to: Terminal Services licensing, Terminal Services infrastructure |
| Designing Core Identity and Access Management Components (25 percent) |
Design Active Directory forests and domains. May include but is not limited to: forest structure, forest and domain functional levels, intra-organizational authorization and authentication, schema modifications |
Design the Active Directory physical topology. May include but is not limited to: placement of servers, site and replication topology, printer location policies |
Design the Active Directory administrative model. May include but is not limited to: delegation, group strategy, compliance auditing, group administration, organizational structure |
Design the enterprise-level group policy strategy. May include but is not limited to: group policy hierarchy and scope filtering, control device installation, authentication and authorization |
| Designing Support Identity and Access Management Components (29 percent) |
Plan for domain or forest migration, upgrade, and restructuring. May include but is not limited to: cross-forest authentication, backward compatibility, object migration, migration planning, implementation planning, environment preparation |
Design the branch office deployment. May include but is not limited to: authentication strategy, server security |
Design and implement public key infrastructure. May include but is not limited to: certificate services, PKI operations and maintenance, certificate life cycle management |
Plan for interoperability. May include but is not limited to: inter-organizational authorization and authentication, application authentication interoperability, cross-platform interoperability |
| Designing for Business Continuity and Data Availability (23 percent) |
Plan for business continuity. May include but is not limited to: service availability, directory service recovery |
Design for software updates and compliance management. May include but is not limited to: patch management and patch management compliance, Microsoft Update and Windows Update, security baselines, system health models |
Design the operating system virtualization strategy. May include but is not limited to: server consolidation, application compatibility, virtualization management, placement of servers |
Design for data management and data access. May include but is not limited to: data security, data accessibility and redundancy, data collaboration |
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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