Exam 70-412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services (MCSE SYLLABUS NEW 2013)

Configure and manage high availability (15–20%)

        Configure Network Load Balancing (NLB)

            Install NLB nodes; configure NLB prerequisites; configure affinity; configure port rules; configure cluster operation mode; upgrade an NLB cluster

        Configure failover clustering

            Configure Quorum; configure cluster networking; restore single node or cluster configuration; configure cluster storage; implement Cluster Aware Updating; upgrade a cluster

        Manage failover clustering roles

            Configure role-specific settings including continuously available shares; configure VM monitoring; configure failover and preference settings

        Manage Virtual Machine (VM) movement

            Perform Live Migration; perform quick migration; perform storage migration; import, export, and copy VMs; migrate from other platforms (P2V and V2V)

Configure file and storage solutions (15–20%)

       Configure advanced file services

            Configure NFS data store; configure BranchCache; configure File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) using File Server Resource Manager (FSRM); configure file access auditing

        Implement Dynamic Access Control (DAC)

            Configure user and device claim types; implement policy changes and staging; perform access-denied remediation; configure file classification

        Configure and optimize storage

            Configure iSCSI Target and Initiator; configure Internet Storage Name server (iSNS); implement thin provisioning and trim; manage server free space using Features on Demand

Implement business continuity and disaster recovery (15–20%)

        Configure and manage backups

            Configure Windows Server backups; configure Windows Online backups; configure role-specific backups; manage VSS settings using VSSAdmin; create System Restore snapshots

        Recover servers

            Restore from backups; perform a Bare Metal Restore (BMR); recover servers using Windows Recovery Environment (Win RE) and safe mode; apply System Restore snapshots; configure the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store

        Configure site-level fault tolerance

            Configure Hyper-V Replica including Hyper-V Replica Broker and VMs; configure multi-site clustering including network settings, Quorum, and failover settings

Configure network services (15–20%)

        Implement an advanced Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) solution

            Create and configure superscopes and multicast scopes; implement DHCPv6; configure high availability for DHCP including DHCP failover and split scopes; configure DHCP Name Protection

        Implement an advanced DNS solution

            Configure security for DNS including DNSSEC, DNS Socket Pool, and cache locking; configure DNS logging; configure delegated administration; configure recursion; configure netmask ordering; configure a GlobalNames zone

        Deploy and manage IPAM

            Configure IPAM manually or by using Group Policy; configure server discovery; create and manage IP blocks and ranges; monitor utilization of IP address space; migrate to IPAM; delegate IPAM administration; manage IPAM collections

Configure the Active Directory infrastructure (15–20%)

        Configure a forest or a domain

            Implement multi-domain and multi-forest Active Directory environments including interoperability with previous versions of Active Directory; upgrade existing domains and forests including environment preparation and functional levels; configure multiple user principal name (UPN) suffixes

        Configure trusts

            Configure external, forest, shortcut, and realm trusts; configure trust authentication; configure SID filtering; configure name suffix routing

        Configure sites

            Configure sites and subnets; create and configure site links; manage site coverage; manage registration of SRV records; move domain controllers between sites

       Manage Active Directory and SYSVOL replication

            Configure replication to Read-Only Domain Controllers (RODCs); configure Password Replication Policy (PRP) for RODCs; monitor and manage replication; upgrade SYSVOL replication to Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)

Configure identity and access solutions (15–20%)

        Implement Active Directory Federation Services 2.1 (AD FSv2.1)

            Implement claims-based authentication including Relying Party Trusts; configure Claims Provider Trust rules; configure attribute stores including Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS); manage AD FS certificates; configure AD FS proxy; integrate with cloud services

        Install and configure Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)

            Install an Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA); configure CRL distribution points; install and configure Online Responder; implement administrative role separation; configure CA backup and recovery

        Manage certificates

            Manage certificate templates; implement and manage certificate deployment, validation, and revocation; manage certificate renewal; manage certificate enrollment and renewal to computers and users using Group Policies; configure and manage key archival and recovery

        Install and configure Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)

           Install a licensing or certificate AD RMS server; manage AD RMS Service Connection Point (SCP); manage AD RMS client deployment; manage Trusted User Domains; manage Trusted Publishing Domains; manage Federated Identity support; manage RMS templates; configure Exclusion Policies