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Online Windows 2000 Network Management MCSA 70-218 Training

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  • Retake the Windows 2000 Network Management MCSA 70-218 courses as many times as you like
  • Measure your progress with assessment tests after each course
  • Earn completion certificates after passing each assessment test

1. Installing Devices and Managing Disks

Time: 4 hours
This course provides an overview of installing and configuring server and client computer hardware.

Objectives

  • Install and manage hardware devices
  • Identify different volume types
  • Create, maintain, and delete partitions
  • Create and expand volumes

Topics

  • Installing and managing hardware devices
  • Identifying different volume types
  • Creating, maintaining, and deleting partitions
  • Creating and expanding volume


2. Configuring Volume Features and Replication

Time: 4 hours
This course provides an overview of managing files and diagnosing problems involving replication.

Objectives

  • Manage file and folder compression
  • Enable and configure disk quotas
  • Implement and configure file encryption
  • Explain and troubleshoot Active Directory replication

Topics

  • Compression in NTFS
  • Compressing objects
  • Viewing objects, uncompressing objects, and using compact.exe
  • Rules of compression
  • Disk quotas
  • Personalizing and modifying disk quotas
  • Encrypting File System
  • Understanding Active Directory structure
  • Replicating information
  • Site replication
  • Creating bridgehead servers
  • Creating global catalog servers
  • Troubleshooting replication


3. Managing Permissions and Resources

Time: 4 hours
This course provides an overview of configuring user accounts and troubleshooting groups.

Objectives

  • Create and configure user and computer accounts
  • Use templates to create user accounts with similar properties
  • Explain, plan, and manage objects and groups
  • Create and implement Organizational Units
  • Set permissions on objects
  • Delegate administrative control
  • Locate objects
  • Explain the purpose of Access Control Lists
  • Explain, create, manage, and publish shared resources
  • Move directory objects

Topics

  • Creating a user account
  • Using account templates
  • Maintaining user accounts
  • Understanding groups
  • Understanding default groups
  • Planning groups
  • Managing groups
  • Creating organizational units
  • Understanding access control
  • Delegating administrative control
  • Finding objects
  • Creating a share
  • Granting share permissions
  • Publishing Shares and Printers
  • Moving directory objects


4. Updating Windows and Software

Time: 2 hours
This course provides an overview of deploying service packs and software by configuring Group Policy.

Objectives

  • Deploy service packs and hotfixes
  • Verify what software and updates are installed on a computer
  • Use Windows Installer to deploy software
  • Deploy software using group policies
  • Upgrade deployed software
  • Remove software

Topics

  • Maintaining software
  • Deploying service packs and hot fixes
  • Verifying and removing Windows updates
  • Windows installer and application deployment
  • Deploying software with group policy
  • Configuring package options
  • Upgrading and redeploying software
  • Removing a package


5. Managing Group Policy

Time: 5 hours
This course provides an overview of the Windows 2000 Group Policy feature.

Objectives

  • Explain the advantages and challenges of using Group Policy in a corporate environment
  • Identify the Group Policy rules applied to users and computers
  • List the rules followed by Windows 2000 when applying Group Policy
  • Create a Group Policy object
  • Modify GPO settings
  • Set Group Policy permissions
  • Block, force, and filter Group Policy
  • Troubleshoot Group Policy
  • Add, edit, and remove scripts from a GPO
  • List and explain the four levels of security templates
  • Create, modify, and delete a security template

Topics

  • Group Policy components
  • Group Policy processing
  • Managing Group Policy
  • Setting Group Policy permissions
  • Filtering Group Policy inheritance
  • Troubleshooting Group Policy
  • Group Policy script processing
  • Implementing Group Policy scripts
  • Security settings
  • Managing security templates


6. Implementing Auditing and Account Policies

Time: 2 hours
This course provides an overview of enabling and configuring auditing and using account policies.

Objectives

  • Implement an audit policy
  • Audit resource usage
  • Configure object access auditing
  • Configure the security log
  • Implement password policies
  • Implement account lockout policies

Topics

  • Implement an audit policy
  • Audit resource usage
  • Configure object access auditing
  • Configure the security log
  • Understand account policies
  • Implement password policies
  • Implement account lockout policies


7. Controlling File and Web Access

Time: 3 hours
This course provides an overview of controlling file access via Web Services.

Objectives

  • Set up and administer Dfs on a server
  • Create a domain-based Dfs structure
  • Set up root replicas
  • Replicate shared folders
  • Enable folder sharing on the Web
  • Troubleshoot a Web sharing system
  • Install Internet Information Server
  • Create an FTP site
  • Control access to the your Web site
  • Change authentication type

Topics

  • Setting up and administering Dfs on a server
  • Creating a domain-based Dfs structure
  • Setting up root replicas
  • Replicating shared folders
  • Folder sharing on the Web
  • Troubleshooting a Web sharing system
  • Installing Internet Information Server
  • Creating an FTP site
  • Controlling access to your Web site
  • Changing authentication type


8. Monitoring and Backing Up Systems

Time: 4 hours
This course provides an overview of monitoring domain controllers, making backups, and data recovery.

Objectives

  • Open and use the Task Manager
  • Use the Event Viewer
  • Configure the Event Logs
  • Explain the function of the Network Monitor
  • Disable an unnecessary service
  • Interpret startup log file information
  • Initiate a backup under Windows 2000
  • Schedule a backup
  • Use a command line to initiate a backup
  • Use the Last Known Good Configuration method
  • Initiate the emergency repair process
  • Use the Recovery console to recover data
  • Start Windows 2000 in Safe Mode
  • Restore a backup

Topics

  • Using the Task Manager
  • Using the Event Viewer
  • Configuring the Event Logs
  • Network Monitor
  • Disabling an unnecessary service
  • Startup log file information
  • Initiating a backup under Windows 2000
  • Scheduling a backup
  • Last Known Good Configuration method
  • Emergency repair process
  • Recovery console data
  • Restoring a Backup


9. Managing TCP/IP and DHCP

Time: 4 hours
This course provides an overview of configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting TCP/IP and DHCP.

Objectives

  • Configure and troubleshoot TCP/IP on servers and client computers
  • Troubleshoot routing
  • Validate local computer configuration by using Ipconfig, Arp, and Route commands
  • Validate network connectivity by using Tracert, Ping, and Pathping commands
  • Configure and troubleshoot DHCP on servers and client computers

Topics

  • IP addresses
  • Subnet mask and default gateway
  • Configuring TCP/IP properties
  • Dynamic IP addressing
  • Host routing and router routing
  • The routing process
  • Validating configurations
  • Validating network connectivity
  • Troubleshooting with Ipconfig and Ping
  • Dynamic host configuration protocol
  • Configuring DHCP scope
  • Configuring DHCP servers


10. Administering Name Resolution and DNS

Time: 4 hours
This course provides an overview of installing, configuring, and troubleshooting DNS.

Objectives

  • Explain how NetBIOS and host names are resolved
  • Use the Nslookup utility
  • Resolve a host name
  • Determine a local address
  • Identify and resolve Lmhosts file errors
  • Verify WINS configuration
  • Identify and resolve Hosts file errors
  • Verify DNS configuration
  • Define DNS and explain its hierarchy
  • Describe the process for resolving host names into IP addresses
  • Install the DNS Server service
  • Configure, administer, and troubleshoot DNS
  • Configure a caching only server

Topics

  • Resolving a NetBIOS name
  • Resolving Host names and determining a local address
  • Resolving a NetBIOS name
  • Socket connection errors and troubleshooting tools
  • Installing the DNS Server service
  • Configuring zones
  • Configuring Root name servers and secondary servers
  • Configuring a caching-only server and understanding dynamic DNS
  • Setting up DNS delegated zones and using resource records
  • Troubleshooting DNS
  • Using NSLookup and IPconfig


11. Managing Remote Access

Time: 4 hours
This course provides an overview of configuring and using Remote Access policies and profiles.

Objectives

  • Enable internet connection sharing
  • Install and configure NAT shared access
  • Set up a remote access system
  • Create remote access policies and profiles
  • Configure authentication and encryption protocols

Topics

  • Sharing connections
  • Installing NAT shared access
  • Configuring NAT shared access
  • Remote access connectivity
  • Configuring inbound connections
  • Configuring the remote access server
  • Configuring user accounts
  • Creating a remote access policy
  • Configuring a remote access profile
  • Managing and monitoring remote access
  • Configuring remote access security
  • Configuring authentication protocols
  • Configuring encryption protocols


12. Configuring VPNs and Terminal Services

Time: 3 hours
This course provides an overview of configuring a Virtual Private Network.

Objectives

  • Explain how Virtual Private Networks operate
  • Explain how Terminal Services operates
  • Set up Terminal Services
  • List the server and client requirements for Terminal Services
  • Install Terminal Services on a server
  • Configure a Terminal Services connection
  • Configure Terminal Services server and user settings
  • Install Terminal Services on a client computer
  • Connect to a server via Terminal Services

Topics

  • Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
  • Terminal Services
  • Setting up Terminal Services
  • Terminal Services clients
  • Installing Terminal Services server
  • Configuring the Terminal Services connection
  • Configuring server settings and user accounts
  • Installing Terminal Services client
  • Connecting via Terminal Services client


13. Practice Test

Time: 1 hours
This course provides practice questions for the MCSA Exam 70-218: Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Environment.

Objectives

  • Demonstrate familiarity with the concepts of creating, configuring, managing, securing, and troubleshooting file, print, and Web resources
  • Demonstrate familiarity with the concepts of configuring, administering, and troubleshooting network infrastructure
  • Demonstrate familiarity with the concepts of managing, securing, and troubleshooting servers and client computers
  • Demonstrate familiarity with the concepts of configuring, managing, securing, and troubleshooting active directory organizational units and group policy
  • Demonstrate familiarity with the concepts of configuring, securing, and troubleshooting remote access

Topics

  • Creating, Configuring, Managing, Securing, and Troubleshooting File, Print, and Web Resources
  • Configuring, Administering, and Troubleshooting the Network Infrastructure
  • Managing, Securing, and Troubleshooting Servers and Client Computers
  • Configuring, Managing, Securing, and Troubleshooting Active Directory Organizational Units and Group Policy
  • Configuring, Securing, and Troubleshooting Remote Access



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