Designing a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (Exam 70-647)
Course ID: HLT 6435
Course Length: 5 days
Course Description:
This five-day course will provide students with an understanding of how to design a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure that meets business and technical requirements for network services.
Target Student:
The primary audience for this course is IT professionals, including Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 enterprise administrators interested in becoming a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator who focuses on network solutions.
Prerequisites:
To ensure your success, we recommend you first have equivalent knowledge:
- Active Directory Technology Specialist level knowledge and concepts.
- Network Infrastructure Technology Specialist level knowledge and experience.
- Applications Infrastructure Technology Specialist level knowledge and experience.
- Windows Vista TS level of knowledge and experience.
- Intermediate understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, name resolution, and connection methods.
- Intermediate understanding of security best practices for authentication and file permissions.
- Intermediate understanding of server and network hardware.
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:
- Describe key components of network infrastructure design.
- Describe how to design a secure network.
- Design a plan for allocating IP addresses to workstations and servers.
- Design a network topology.
- Describe the internal considerations for network security and how they can be addressed.
- Design an appropriate name resolution system that incorporates Domain Name System (DNS).
- Optimize a name resolution system that incorporates DNS and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS).
- Design a solution for network access.
- Design a Network Access Protection (NAP) solution.
- Design a solution for operating system deployment and maintenance.
- Design the deployment of file services.
- Design print services in Windows Server 2008.
- Design high availability for applications and services.
Course Content
Lesson 1: Overview of Network Infrastructure Design
Topic 1A: Preparing for Network Infrastructure Design
Topic 1B: Designing the Network Topology
Topic 1C: Designing Network Infrastructure for Virtualization
Topic 1D: Designing a Change Management Structure for a Network
Lesson 2: Designing Network Security
Topic 2A: Overview of Network Security Design
Topic 2B: Creating a Network Security Plan
Topic 2C: Identifying Threats to Network Security
Topic 2D: Analyzing Security Risks
Topic 2E: Defense-in-Depth Model Overview
Lesson 3: Designing IP Addressing
Topic 3A: Designing an IPv4 Addressing Scheme
Topic 3B: Designing an IPv6 Addressing Scheme
Topic 3C: Designing DHCP Implementation
Topic 3D: Designing DHCP Configuration Options
Lesson 4: Designing Routing and Switching
Topic 4A: Preparing for Designing a Network Routing Topology
Topic 4B: Selecting Network Devices
Topic 4C: Designing Internet Connectivity and Perimeter Networks
Topic 4D: Designing Routing Communications
Topic 4E: Evaluating Network Performance
Lesson 5: Designing Security for Internal Networks
Topic 5A: Designing Windows Firewall Implementation
Topic 5B: Overview of IPSec
Topic 5C: Designing IPSec Implementation
Lesson 6: Designing Name Resolution
Topic 6A: Collecting Information for a Name Resolution Design
Topic 6B: Designing a DNS Server Strategy
Topic 6C: Designing a DNS Namespace
Topic 6D: Designing DNS Zone Implementation
Topic 6E: Designing Zone Replication and Delegation
Lesson 7: Designing Advanced Name Resolution
Topic 7A: Optimizing DNS Queries
Topic 7B: Designing DNS for High Availability
Topic 7C: Designing a WINS Name Resolution Strategy
Topic 7D: Phasellus tristique
Lesson 8: Planning and Deploying the Application Virtualization Management System
Topic 8A: Gathering Data for Designing Network Access Solutions
Topic 8B: Securing and Controlling Network Access
Topic 8C: Designing Remote Access Services
Topic 8D: Designing RADIUS Authentication with Network Policy Services
Topic 8E: Designing Wireless Access
Lesson 9: Designing Network Access Protection
Topic 9A: Designing the NAP Platform Architecture
Topic 9B: NAP Architecture
Topic 9C: NAP Enforcement
Topic 9D: Designing NAP Policy
Topic 9E: Designing NAP Enforcement and Remediation
Lesson 10: Designing Operating System Deployment and Maintenance
Topic 10A: Determining Operating System Deployment Requirements
Topic 10B: Deploying an Operating System by Using WDS
Topic 10C: Planning for the Creation and Modification of Images
Topic 10D: Designing Multicast Transmission of Images
Lesson 11: Designing File Services and DFS in Windows Server 2008
Topic 11A: Designing File Services
Topic 11B: Designing DFS
Topic 11C: Designing the FSRM Configuration
Lesson 12: Designing High Availability in Windows Server 2008
Topic 12A: Overview of High Availability
Topic 12B: Designing Network Load Balancing for High Availability
Topic 12C: Designing Failover Clustering for High Availability
Topic 12D: Designing Geographically Dispersed Failover Clusters
Lesson 13: Designing Print Services in Windows Server 2008
Topic 13A: Overview of a Print Services Design
Topic 13B: Windows Server 2008 Printing Features
Topic 13C: Designing Print Services