MOC 20740 Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016

Description

Seminar Content
Installing, upgrading and migrating servers and workloads:
Introduction to Windows Server 2016
Installing Nano Server and Server Core
Preparing for upgrades and migrations
Migrating server roles and workloads
Windows Server activation models
Configuration of local storage (disks, volumes)
Implementing enterprise storage solutions:
Overview of direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SANs)
Comparison of Fibre Channel, iSCSI and FCoE
MS Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS), data center bridging and Multipath I/O (MPIO)
Configuration of sharing in Windows Server 2016
Implementation of Storage Spaces and data deduplication
Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines
Deploying and managing Windows Server and Hyper-V containers
Overview of high availability and disaster recovery
Implementing and managing failover clustering:
Planning a failover cluster
Creating, configuring, and maintaining a new failover cluster
Troubleshooting a failover cluster using tools such as Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and Windows PowerShell
High availability with Stretch Clustering
Implementing failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines
Implementation of Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Deployment image creation and management
MS Deployment Toolkit (MDT)
Requirements for server virtualization
Management, monitoring and maintenance of VM installations:
WSUS overview and deployment options
Update management process with WSUS
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Overview
Windows Server 2016 monitoring tools
Performance Monitor
Event Log Monitoring

Aim

The seminar can be used to prepare for exam 70-740 for MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification. Please note that the seminar is currently under development by Microsoft and may be subject to change. The seminar can be used to prepare for the 70-740 exam for MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification.

Participant requirements

Networking Basics,
Understanding of IT security best practices and basic AD-DS concepts,
Basic knowledge of server hardware,
Experience supporting and configuring Windows client operating systems such as Windows 8 or Windows 10, and administering Windows server operating systems is a plus.

Participant

Windows Server Administratoren