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| Skills Being Measured when taking the MCP 70-290 Examination |
| Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices |
| Manage basic disks and dynamic disks. |
| Monitor server hardware. Tools might include Device Manager, the Hardware Troubleshooting Wizard, and appropriate Control Panel items. |
| Optimize server disk performance. |
| - | Implement a RAID solution. |
| - | Defragment volumes and partitions. |
| Install and configure server hardware devices. |
| - | Configure driver signing options. |
| - | Configure resource settings for a device. |
| - | Configure device properties and settings. |
| Managing Users, Computers, and Groups |
| Manage local, roaming, and mandatory user profiles. |
| Create and manage computer accounts in an Active Directory environment. |
| Create and manage groups. |
| - | Identify and modify the scope of a group. |
| - | Find domain groups in which a user is a member. |
| - | Manage group membership. |
| - | Create and modify groups by using the Active Directory Users and Computers
Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. |
| - | Create and modify groups by using automation. |
| Create and manage user accounts. |
| - | Create and modify user accounts by using the Active Directory Users and
Computers MMC snap-in. |
| - | Create and modify user accounts by using automation. |
| - | Import user accounts. |
| Troubleshoot computer accounts. |
| - | Diagnose and resolve issues related to computer accounts by using the
Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in. |
| - | Reset computer accounts. |
| Troubleshoot user accounts. |
| - | Diagnose and resolve account lockouts. |
| - | Diagnose and resolve issues related to user account properties. |
| Troubleshoot user authentication issues. |
| Managing and Maintaining Access to Resources |
| Configure access to shared folders. |
| - | Manage shared folder permissions. |
| Troubleshoot Terminal Services. |
| - | Diagnose and resolve issues related to Terminal Services security. |
| - | Diagnose and resolve issues related to client access to Terminal Services. |
| Configure file system permissions. |
| - | Verify effective permissions when granting permissions. |
| - | Change ownership of files and folders. |
| Troubleshoot access to files and shared folders. |
| Managing and Maintaining a Server Environment |
| Monitor and analyze events. Tools might include Event Viewer
and System Monitor. |
| Manage software update infrastructure. |
| Manage software site licensing. |
| Manage servers remotely. |
| - | Manage a server by using Remote Assistance. |
| - | Manage a server by using Terminal Services remote administration mode. |
| - | Manage a server by using available support tools. |
| Troubleshoot print queues. |
| Monitor system performance. |
| Monitor file and print servers. Tools might include Task Manager,
Event Viewer, and System Monitor. |
| - | Monitor disk quotas. |
| - | Monitor print queues. |
| - | Monitor server hardware for bottlenecks. |
| Monitor and optimize a server environment for application performance. |
| - | Monitor memory performance objects. |
| - | Monitor network performance objects. |
| - | Monitor process performance objects. |
| - | Monitor disk performance objects. |
| Manage a Web server. |
| - | Manage Internet Information Services (IIS). |
| - | Manage security for IIS. |
| Managing and Implementing Disaster Recovery |
| Perform system recovery for a server. |
| - | Implement Automated System Recovery (ASR). |
| - | Restore data from shadow copy volumes. |
| - | Back up files and System State data to media. |
| - | Configure security for backup operations. |
| Manage backup procedures. |
| - | Verify the successful completion of backup jobs. |
| - | Manage backup storage media. |
| Recover from server hardware failure. |
| Restore backup data. |
| Schedule backup jobs. |
