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Microsoft MTA Windows Server Administration 98-365

Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA)

James Conrad

CBT Nuggets Trainer

"I'd like to thank you for giving me the chance to do what I love most - training! I consider it an honor to be your guide in learning the latest Microsoft operating systems, CompTIA A+, and the C... Read more.

If you're new to IT and servers, this is the place to start. Microsoft's 70-365 certification tells employers that you've got your server basics down pat.

Trainer James Conrad explains how servers differ from the standard PC. He demonstrates the value of server redundancy and clustering, which is so important when one or more hardware components fail. You'll also learn about Active Directory (AD) infrastructure and group policy, both essential topics for every aspiring IT admin.

By the time you've finished watching this series, you'll be ready for the certification exam and know how to perform basic server administration for a small business or department.
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Series Intro
In this introductory training nugget, we will go through many topics like; what is the mta certification, mta exam guidelines, series structure and mta exam objectives.
00:09:22
 
Understanding Device Drivers
Now that you know what to expect, lets begin the actual mta certification training with, device drivers. This objective may include but is not limited to: installation; removal; disabling; update/upgrade; rollback; troubleshooting; Plug & Play; IRQ; interrupts; driver signing, understanding the purpose of device drivers.
00:42:01
 
Understanding Services
Understand services. what services are, which statuses a service can be in, startup types, started, stopped, pause, resume, recovery options, delayed startup, automatic startup, manual, disabled, Run As settings for a service, service accounts, dependencies
00:28:33
 
Installation Part 1: Editions of Windows
Understand server installation options. Choosing correct OS version, windows server 2008, standard, enterprise, datacenter, web server, itanium, server core, clustering, server roles, certification authority
00:38:36
 
Installation Part 2: Installation Options
Understand server installation options. partitioning; F8 options; server core vs. full; interactive install; unattended install; automated install using WDS; upgrade vs. clean install; firmware updates including BIOS, Windows Automated Installation Kit, WAIK, Windows System Image Manager, WSIM, SIM, answer files, autounattend.xml, unattend.xml, windows deployment services
00:54:18
 
Application Servers
Identify Application Servers, mail servers, Microsoft exchange, client access server, hub transport server, mailbox servers, edge transport server, demilitarized zone, DMZ, perimeter network, sites, database servers, Microsoft SQL, mysql, open source, oracle, line-of-business applications, collaboration servers, SharePoint, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, monitoring servers, system center operations manager, SCOM, threat management, Cisco, checkpoint, firewall, proxy, intrusion detection system, IDS
00:33:59
 
Web Services
Understand web services, IIS, Internet information server, WWW, FTP, separate worker processes, application pool, adding components, configuring web sites, opening correct ports to ensure communication with the web or ftp server, ports 80, 443, 21, web server certificates, ssl, secure sockets layer, tls, transport layer security.
00:51:46
 
Remote Access Part 1
The MTA certification exam preparation continues by covering distance or "remote" training. By the end of this Nugget, I hope you will understand remote access. remote assistance, remote desktop, remote desktop services, helper, host, licensing, rd gateway, remote desktop gateway
00:43:20
 
Remote Access Part 2
Understand remote access, remote administration tools, remote server administration toolkit, application virtualization, APP-V, MDOP, RSAT, WINRM quickconfig, WINRS, remote desktop services, virtual private network, VPN, PPTP, L2TP, Direct Access, IKEv2, point-to-point tunneling protocol, layer two tunneling protocol, Internet key exchange v2, MOBIKE.
00:35:22
 
Print Services
Understand print services. local printers, network printers, printer pools, web printing, web management driver deployment, print job management, shared printers, updating printer drivers.
00:35:58
 
File Services
Understand file services. file, folder, and share permissions, rights, auditing, read, read and write, modify, change, full control permissions. icacls.exe, effective permissions, deny permissions
00:32:03
 
Server Virtualization
Understand server virtualization. Virtualization modes, VHDs, virtual memory, virtual networks, snapshots and saved states, physical to virtual, virtual to physical.
00:37:45
 
Accounts and Groups
Understand accounts and groups. domain accounts, local accounts, user profiles, group types, group scopes, group nesting, AGDLP, joining a computer to a domain, authentication, authorization, security identifier, SID, universal groups, domain local groups, global groups, distribution groups, security groups.
00:42:40
 
Organizational Units and Containers
Understand Organizational Units and Containers. purpose of organizational units, purpose of containers, delegation, default organizational units and containers, domain vs workgroup.
00:24:37
 
Active Directory Infrastructure
Understand Active Directory infrastructure. domain controllers, forests, operation masters roles, flexible single master operations, FSMO, domain naming master, schema master, Relative ID master, RID master, infrastructure master, PDC emulator, primary domain controller, external trust, manual trust, one-way trust, two-way trust, forest trust, transitive trust, shortcut trust.
00:58:07
 
Group Policy
Understand Group Policy. group policy processing, group policy precedence, group policy management console, GPMC, computer policies, user policies, local policies, gpupdate, understand disk types. advantages and disadvantages of different storage types; local (SATA, SCSI, IDE); ATA; basic disk; dynamic disk; mount points; file systems; mounting a virtual hard disk; distributed file systems; optical disks
00:24:38
 
Storage
Understand RAID. RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and combinations; hardware and software RAID, Identify storage technologies. NAS; SAN; fibre channel; iSCSI; NFS; FC HBA and FC switches; iSCSI hardware.
01:07:27
 
Server Hardware
Identify major server hardware components. memory; disk; processor; network; 32 / 64 bits; removable drives; graphic cards; cooling; power usage; ports.
01:09:05
 
Performance Monitoring
Understand performance monitoring. methodology; procedures; effect of network, CPU, memory and disk; creating a baseline; perfmon; resmon; Task Manager; performance counters, winpcap, wireshark, network monitor, ethereal. Understand performance logs and alerts. purpose of performance logs and alerts
00:45:29
 
Startup Process
This training video will continue your mta certification preparation by covering; bios, boot components, boot loader and safe mode.
00:41:45
 
Business Continuity Part 1
Understand business continuity. disaster recovery; clustering; data redundancy; uniterruptible power supply (UPS), power sag, brownout, outage, spike, surge, utility power, street power, battery, active/passive cluster, GPT, network load balancing (NLB)
00:20:57
 
Business Continuity Part 2
Understand business continuity. Disaster recovery, windows server backup, ntbackup.exe, backup data, restore data, active directory restore, ntdsutil, folder redirection, volume shadow copy.
00:40:25
 
Updates
Training video for Updates. We will discuss; software; driver; operating systems; applications; Windows Update; Windows Server Update Service (WSUS), upstream servers, downstream servers, language packs, computer groups, synchronizations, server cleanup wizard, using GPO to configure client-side WSUS settings.
00:27:12
 
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting training for the mta certification. Topics; troubleshooting methodology. processes; procedures; best practices; systematic vs. specific approach; perfmon; Event Viewer; Resource Monitor; Information Technology Infrastructure Library; ITIL, central logging; event filtering; default logs, event forwarding, event collector, event forwarder.
00:35:36
Total Series Duration: 15 hours
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