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Exam 70-219: Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure

SmartCert's 70-219 course provides students with the knowledge and skills that are needed to to analyze the business requirements for desktop management and design a solution for desktop management that meets business requirements.  When you pass theDesigning a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure exam, you achieve Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) status. You also earn core or elective credit towards the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Microsoft Windows 2000 certification.


As a Microsoft Certified Partner, SmartCert follows the approved Microsoft course curriculum, ensuring you receive the training and knowledge needed to suceed.  SmartCert is so certain this course meets and exceeds the exam objectives, we guarantee you will pass your exam!


Learning segments

Analyzing Business Requirements

Analyze the existing and planned business models

Analyze the company model and the geographical scope

Analyze company processes

Analyze the existing and planned organizational structures

Analyze factors that influence company strategies

Identify company priorities

Identify the projected growth and growth strategy

Identify relevant laws and regulations

Identify the company's tolerance for risk

Identify the total cost of operations

Analyze the structure of IT management

Analyzing Technical Requirements

Evaluate the company's existing and planned technical environment and goals

Analyze company size and user and resource distribution

Assess the available connectivity between the geographic location of worksites and remote sites

Assess net available bandwidth and latency issues

Analyze performance, availability, and scalability requirements of services

Analyze data and system access patterns

Analyze network roles and responsibilities

Analyze security considerations

Analyze the impact of infrastructure design on the existing and planned technical environment

Assess current applications

Analyze network infrastructure, protocols, and hosts

Evaluate network services

Assess current hardware

Identify existing and planned upgrades and rollouts

Analyze technical support structure

Analyze existing and planned network and systems management

Analyze the network requirements for client computer access

Analyze end-user work needs

Analyze end-user usage patterns

Analyze the existing disaster recovery strategy for client computers, servers, and the network

Designing a Directory Service Architecture

Define the scope of the Active Directory design

Design an Active Directory forest and domain structure.

Design a forest and schema structure

Design a domain structure

Analyze and optimize trust relationship requirements

Design an Active Directory naming strategy

Plan the WINS NetBIOS name resolution strategy

Design the namespace

Plan the DNS strategy

Design and plan the structure of organizational units

Develop an organizational unit delegation plan

Plan Group Policy object management

Develop a change in the configuration management plan for client computers

Plan for the coexistence of Active Directory and other directory services

Design a schema modification policy

Design an Active Directory implementation plan

Designing Service Locations

Design the placement of operations masters

Design the placement of global catalog servers

Design the placement of domain controllers

Design the placement of DNS, WINS, and DHCP servers

Design an Active Directory site topology

Design a replication strategy

Define site boundaries