Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
Course ID: HLT 2278
Course Length: 5 days
Course Description:
The goal of this five-day course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and maintain a Windows Server 2003 network infrastructure.
Microsoft Certification Exam:
Exam 70-293: Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
Target Student:
This course is appropriate for individuals employed as or seeking a position as a systems engineer. This course is also appropriate for individuals currently supporting a competitive platform who want to enhance their job skills on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 networking. The target students are IT professionals and new to Windows Server 2003 network implementation and/or preparing for the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification.
Prerequisites:
To ensure your success, we recommend you first have equivalent knowledge:
- Course 2277: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Services, or have equivalent knowledge and skills.
Delivery Method:
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Performance-Based Objectives :
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Plan a TCP/IP physical and logical network.
- Plan and troubleshoot a routing strategy.
- Plan a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) strategy.
- Optimize and troubleshoot DHCP and DNS.
- Plan a Domain Name System (DNS) strategy.
- Plan and optimize Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS).
- Plan, optimize, and troubleshoot IPSec network access.
- Troubleshoot network access.
Course Content
Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure Planning, Tools, and Documentation
Topic 1A: Introducing the Network Design
Topic 1B: Planning a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure Project
Lesson 2: Planning and Optimizing a TCP/IP Physical and Logical Network
Topic 2A: Planning a Functional TCP/IP Solution
Topic 2B: Evaluating Network Performance
Lesson 3: Planning and Troubleshooting Routing and Switching
Topic 3A: Selecting Intermediate Devices
Topic 3B: Planning an Internet Connectivity Strategy
Topic 3C: Planning Routing Communications
Topic 3D: Troubleshooting TCP/IP Routing
Lesson 4: Planning, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting DHCP
Topic 4A: Planning a DHCP Strategy
Topic 4B: Securing a DHCP Solution
Topic 4C: Optimizing DHCP
Topic 4D: Troubleshooting DHCP
Lesson 5: Planning a DNS Strategy
Topic 5A: Planning DNS Servers
Topic 5B: Planning a Namespace
Topic 5C: Planning Zones
Topic 5D: Planning Zone Replication and Delegation
Topic 5E: Integrating DNS and WINS
Lesson 6: Optimizing and Troubleshooting DNS
Topic 6A: Optimizing DNS Servers
Topic 6B: Troubleshooting Host Name Resolution
Lesson 7: Planning and Optimizing WINS
Topic 7A: Planning a WINS Solution
Topic 7B: Identifying WINS Optimization Requirements
Topic 7B: Optimizing WINS Traffic
Lesson 8: Planning and Troubleshooting IPSec
Topic 8A: Understanding Default Policy Rules
Topic 8B: Planning an IPSec Deployment
Topic 8C: Troubleshooting IPSec Communications
Lesson 9: Planning Network Access
Topic 9A: Introducing Network Access
Topic 9B: Selecting Network Access Connection Methods
Topic 9C: Selecting a Remote Access Policy Strategy
Topic 9B: Selecting a Network Access Authentication Method
Topic 9C: Planning a Network Access Strategy
Lesson 10: Troubleshooting Network Access
Topic 10A: Troubleshooting Network Access Resources
Topic 10B: Troubleshooting LAN Authentication
Topic 10C: Troubleshooting Remote Access
Lesson 11: Planning a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
Topic 11A: Introducing Planning Documentation
Topic 11B: Preparing Development and Test Environments
Topic 11C: Managing and Maintaining the Environment