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Exam 70-244 became available June 16, 2001.
Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam operate in medium to very
large computing environments that use Microsoft Windows
NT Server 4.0 as a primary network operating system.
They have a minimum of one year's experience
implementing and administering Windows NT Server 4.0 in
environments that have the following characteristics:
- From 200 to more than 26,000 users.
- From one to more than 50 physical locations.
- Typical network services and applications,
including file and print, database, messaging, proxy
server or firewall, dial-in server, desktop
management, and Web hosting.
- Connectivity needs, including connecting branch
offices and individual users at remote locations to
the corporate network, and connecting corporate
networks to the Internet.
- Operating systems on client computers, including
Windows® 2000 Professional, Windows NT Workstation
4.0, Windows 98, and third-party operating systems.
- Client computers that are being incrementally
upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional.
Preparation Tools and Resources
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prepare for this exam, here's where you should start.
Instructor-led Course for This Exam
- Currently, corresponding Official Microsoft
Learning Products are not available.
Microsoft Press Self-Paced Training
- Currently, a corresponding Microsoft Press title
is not available.
Skills Being Measured
This certification exam measures your ability to
support and maintain networks that use Microsoft Windows
NT Server 4.0 as a primary operating system. Before
taking the exam, you should be proficient in the job
skills listed below.
| Maintaining,
Troubleshooting, and Optimizing Servers |
| Deploy service packs
and hot fixes. |
Optimize, configure,
manage, and troubleshoot hardware.
- Recover from hardware failures. Types of
hardware include processors, RAM, hard disks,
RAID controllers, and network adapters.
- Configure and troubleshoot fault-tolerance
disks and disk subsystems.
- Upgrade a server from a single processor to
multiple processors.
- Troubleshoot problems with hardware.
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| Back up and restore
data. Considerations include the number of
available tapes, the time available for backup and
restore, and the type of backup. |
| Recover system files
and reestablish the previous operating system
environment. |
Troubleshoot and
optimize server performance.
- Troubleshoot performance problems by using
Task Manager, Event Viewer, or Performance
Monitor.
- Move, size, and add new paging files.
- Allocate server hardware based on
application requirements. Considerations include
interaction of Web services, file and print
services, messaging and database applications,
and proxy services.
- Modify backup domain controller (BDC)
placement. Considerations include network
traffic, application requirements, fault
tolerance, and physical location.
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| Configuring and
Troubleshooting Users and Groups |
| Configure and
troubleshoot trust relationships. Considerations
include cross-domain resource access and one-way
trusts versus two-way trusts. |
| Configure and
troubleshoot Account policy. Considerations
include password uniqueness, password length,
password age, and account lockout. |
| Configure and
troubleshoot groups. Considerations include group
membership, default groups, global groups, and
local groups. |
Configure and
troubleshoot user accounts, user profiles, and
logon scripts.
- Create and rename user accounts. Types of
accounts include template accounts and deleted
accounts.
- Configure and troubleshoot user profiles.
Types of profiles include roaming user profiles,
mandatory user profiles, and local user
profiles.
- Configure and troubleshoot user accounts.
Considerations include disabled user accounts,
logon restrictions, and dial-in permissions.
- Troubleshoot logon scripts. Considerations
include script location, user account
configuration, and replication of the NETLOGON
shared folder.
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Configure and
troubleshoot system policies. Considerations
include client computer operating system, file
locations and names, and interaction between local
security policy and system policies.
- Configure user-specific system policies.
- Configure computer policies.
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| Analyzing,
Configuring, and Monitoring Security |
Analyze and configure
the operating system environment and the user
environment by using Security Configuration
Manager.
- Apply the appropriate security template
based on server function.
- Analyze the current environment and
customize existing security templates to meet
organizational security requirements.
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| Implement auditing
and monitor security. Implementation includes
configuring Audit policy, enabling auditing on
objects, and analyzing audit logs. |
| Implement advanced
security options. Implementation includes
implementing the Syskey utility, configuring
Server Message Block (SMB) signing, and enforcing
usage of the appropriate version of Windows NT LAN
Manager (NTLM). |
| Configuring,
Managing, and Troubleshooting Access to
Resources |
| Create, configure,
and troubleshoot permissions. Considerations
include combined NTFS and share permissions,
printer permissions, default permissions, multiple
group membership, and use of the Deny
permission. |
| Install, configure,
and troubleshoot file-based resource access by
using Distributed file system (Dfs) on multiple
servers. |
| Configure, manage,
and troubleshoot printers and print devices.
Considerations include drivers, connectivity,
printer pools, print queues, managing the Print
Spooler service, and TCP/IP printing. |
| Configure, manage,
and troubleshoot Internet access and intranet
access to file and printer resources.
Considerations include protocols such as HTTP,
HTTPS, and FTP. |
| Configuring,
Managing, Troubleshooting, and Optimizing Network
Services |
| Configure and
troubleshoot network connectivity. Considerations
include name resolution servers, default gateway,
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA), options
for the Ipconfig utility, and DHCP. |
| Configure, manage,
and troubleshoot Microsoft Internet Information
Server (IIS) on the server. Considerations include
hosting of multiple Web sites, performance tuning,
and Windows NT Load Balancing Service
(WLBS). |
| Monitor, maintain,
and troubleshoot name resolution. Considerations
include NetBIOS name resolution, host name
resolution, and the Computer Browser
service. |
| Configure and
troubleshoot Remote Access Service (RAS) and
Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS).
Considerations include backup and restore of RRAS
configuration, Internet Authentication Service
(IAS), and virtual private network (VPN)
access. |
| Troubleshoot and
optimize network performance. Tools include Event
Viewer, Performance Monitor, and Network
Monitor. |
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