2278: Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

Course Specifications

Course Length:  5 days

Location: Entre Technology Services, LLC  1501 N. 14th St. West, Suite 1511

Registration: Call your Account Manager at 406.256.5700 or use our Registration Forms

Introduction

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.

Audience

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 entry criteria for this course include individuals who are:

IT professionals and new to Windows Server 2003 network implementation.
Preparing for the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification.

At Course Completion

After completing 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.
Plan a Domain Name System (DNS) strategy.
Optimize and troubleshoot DNS.
Plan and optimize Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS).
Plan, optimize, and troubleshoot IPSec network access.
Troubleshoot network access. 

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have met at least one of the following prerequisites:

Course 2273: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment or equivalent knowledge and skills. (October 13th – 27th)

Course 2277: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Services, or have equivalent knowledge and skills. (October 20th – 24th)

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

This workshop will help students prepare for these Microsoft Certified Professional exams:

Exam 70-293: Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure 

Course Outline

Module 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure Planning, Tools, and Documentation

Explain the concepts of a network design process.
Explain the components of a network planning project.

Module 2: Planning and Optimizing a TCP/IP Physical and Logical Network

Plan a TCP/IP addressing scheme.
Optimize network performance.

Module 3: Planning and Troubleshooting Routing and Switching

Create a secure routing and switching plan.
Identify TCP/IP routing troubleshooting tools.
Troubleshoot TCP/IP routing and switching.

Module 4: Planning, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting DHCP

Plan a secure DHCP strategy.
Optimize DHCP.
Troubleshoot DHCP.

Module 5: Planning a DNS Strategy

Plan a DNS server implementation.
Plan a namespace strategy.
Plan zones.
Plan zone replication and deletion.
Integrate DNS and WINS.

Module 6: Optimizing and Troubleshooting DNS

Optimize a DNS server.
Optimize DNS server-to-server communications.
Optimize DNS client support traffic.
Troubleshoot host name resolution.

Module 7: Planning and Optimizing WINS

Plan a WINS solution.
Identify WINS optimization requirements.
Optimize WINS traffic.

Module 8: Planning and Troubleshooting IPSec

Discuss IPSec.
Understand IPSec default policies, rules, and settings.
Plan IPSec deployment.
Troubleshoot IPSec.

Module 9: Planning Network Access

Explain the requirements and authentication protocols for a network access strategy.
Apply the guidelines for selecting a network access connection strategy.
Apply the guidelines for selecting a remote access policy strategy.
Select a network access authentication method.
Plan a network access strategy.

Module 10: Troubleshooting Network Access

Identify network access troubleshooting resources.
Explain how to troubleshoot local area network (LAN) authentication.
Explain how to troubleshoot remote access.

Module 11: Planning a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

Identify the components of the master project plan.
Explain the process for preparing development and test environments.
Explain how to manage and maintain the network infrastructure.