Exam 70-232 became available November 27, 2001.
Candidates for this exam work in Microsoft Windows 2000 Web
server environments that use Application Center 2000. They have
a minimum of one year's experience administering and monitoring
highly available Web environments that have the following
characteristics:
This certification exam measures your ability to implement,
administer, and troubleshoot information systems that
incorporate Microsoft Application Center 2000. Before taking the
exam, you should be proficient in the job skills listed below.
| Installing
and Deploying Application Center 2000 |
| Plan the deployment of
Application Center 2000 in n-tier environments.
Considerations include database access, COM+ components, Web
environments, and staging environments. |
| Plan the deployment of
Application Center 2000 in a load-balanced environment.
Considerations include client state and application state. |
| Install Application Center
2000. Installation types include interactive and unattended. |
| Troubleshoot problems that
occur during installation. |
| Creating,
Configuring, Managing, and Troubleshooting Clusters |
| Create and configure Web
clusters, including staging clusters. |
Create and configure COM+
clusters. Considerations include Component Load Balancing
(CLB), COM+ routing cluster, and COM+ application cluster.
- Configure and implement CLB within an n-tier
architecture.
- Configure COM+ components for CLB.
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| Manage cluster members.
Considerations include adding, replacing, restarting, and
removing cluster members. |
| Troubleshoot problems that
occur during cluster operations. Considerations include
accounts, background services, event logging, and event
exclusion. |
| Configuring
and Troubleshooting IP Load Balancing |
| Configure and troubleshoot
the NLB network environment. Considerations include network
adapters, IP addresses, switches, hubs, and traffic
segmentation. |
| Configure NLB operational
parameters. Parameters include weight, affinity, port rules,
priority, registry entries, and IP addresses for cluster
networks and private networks. |
| Configure IIS bindings to
support load balancing solutions. |
| Configure Active Server
Pages (ASP) sessions and request forwarding to provide load
balancing of stateful applications. |
| Configure Application
Center 2000 to allow third-party load balancing solutions. |
| Deploying and
Synchronizing N-Tier Applications |
Configure Application
Center 2000 to deploy COM+ components.
- Configure authentication and authorization.
- Migrate COM components to COM+ applications.
- Deploy server certificates for SSL connections.
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| Troubleshoot problems that
occur with Application Center 2000 during application
deployment and synchronization. |
Create, modify, and delete
Application Center 2000 applications.
- Configure and manage Application Center 2000
application images.
- Manage application resources. Resources include Web
applications, files, registry settings, and COM+
components.
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| Configure synchronization
of applications within a cluster. Considerations include
components and frequency. |
Deploy applications.
- Deploy content from a staging server.
- Implement a version control system by using
Application Center 2000.
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| Monitoring
and Managing Operations |
| Configure performance
monitoring for clusters. |
| Create and configure data
collectors and thresholds by using Health Monitor.
Considerations include data groups, sync and non-sync
monitors, actions, and custom actions. |
| Configure Application
Center 2000 to automate the management of tiers and
clusters. |
