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
