Plan and deploy a server infrastructure
(20–25%)
Design an automated server installation
strategy
Design considerations including
images and bare metal/virtual deployment; design a server implementation using
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK); design a virtual server deployment
Plan and implement a server deployment
infrastructure
Configure multicast deployment;
configure multi-site topology and distribution points; configure a multi-server
topology; configure autonomous and replica Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
servers
Plan and implement server upgrade and
migration
Plan for role migration; migrate
server roles; migrate servers across domains and forests; design a server
consolidation strategy; plan for capacity and resource optimization
Plan and deploy Virtual Machine Manager
services
Design Virtual Machine Manager
service templates; define operating system profiles; configure hardware and
capability profiles; manage services; configure image and template libraries;
manage logical networks
Plan and implement file and storage
services
Planning considerations include
iSCSI SANs, Fibre Channel SANs, Virtual Fibre Channel, storage spaces, storage
pools, and data de-duplication; configure the iSCSI Target server; configure
the Internet Storage Name server (iSNS); configure Network File System (NFS);
install Device Specific Modules (DSMs)
