Almanal Training Center LLC

MCSA Windows Server 2016 Certification 70-740 Training in Abu Dhabi

This course is the first of three required to earn your MCSA: Windows Server 2016. This course will prepare you to take exam 70-740.

Module 1: Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads

• Introducing Windows Server 2016
• Preparing and installing Nano Server and Server Core
• Preparing for upgrades and migrations
• Migrating server roles and workloads
• Windows Server activation models

Module 2: Configuring local storage

• Managing disks in Windows Server 2016
• Managing volumes in Windows Server 2016

Module 3: Implementing enterprise storage solutions

• Overview of direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, and storage area networks
• Comparing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCoE
• Understanding iSNS, data centre bridging, and MPIO
• Configuring sharing in Windows Server 2016

Module 4: Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication

• Implementing Storage Spaces
• Managing Storage Spaces
• Implementing Data Deduplication

Module 5: Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines

• Overview of Hyper-V
• Installing Hyper-V
• Configuring storage on Hyper-V host servers
• Configuring networking on Hyper-V host servers
• Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines
• Managing Hyper-V virtual machines

Module 6: Deploying and managing Windows Server and Hyper-V containers

• Overview of containers in Windows Server 2016
• Deploying Windows Server and Hyper-V containers
• Installing, configuring, and managing containers

Module 7: Overview of high availability and disaster recovery

• Defining levels of availability
• Planning high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V virtual machines
• Backing up and restoring the Windows Server 2016 operating system and data by using Windows Server B
• High availability with fail-over clustering in Windows Server 2016

Module 8: Implementing and managing fail-over clustering

• Planning a fail-over cluster
• Creating and configuring a new fail-over cluster
• Maintaining a fail-over cluster
• Troubleshooting a fail-over cluster
• Implementing site high availability with stretch clustering

Module 9: Implementing fail-over clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines

• Overview of integrating Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016 with fail-over clustering
• Implementing and maintaining Hyper-V virtual machines on fail-over clusters
• Key features for virtual machines in a clustered environment

Module 10: Implementing Network Load Balancing

• Overview of NLB clusters
• Configuring an NLB cluster
• Planning an NLB implementation

Module 11: Creating and managing deployment images

• Introduction to deployment images
• Creating and managing deployment images by using MDT
• Virtual machine environments for different workloads

Module 12: Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations

• WSUS overview and deployment options
• Update management process with WSUS
• Overview of Power Shell DSC
• Overview of Windows Server 2016 monitoring tools
• Using Performance Monitor
• Monitoring Event Logs

Labs

[*]     Installing and configuring Nano Server [list]

• Implementing Nano Server
• Completing post-installation tasks on the Nano Server
• Performing remote management

[*]     Managing disks and volumes in Windows Server 2016

• Creating and Managing virtual hard disks by using Windows Power Shell
• Converting virtual hard disks from .vhd to .vhdx
• Resizing a volume

[*]     Planning and configuring storage technologies and components

• Planning storage requirements
• Configuring iSCSI storage
• Configuring and managing the share infrastructure

[*]     Implementing Storage Spaces

• Creating a storage space
• Enabling and configuring storage tiering

[*]     Implementing Data Deduplication

• Installing Data Deduplication
• Configuring Data Deduplication

[*]     Installing and configuring Hyper-V

• Installing the Hyper-V server role
• Configuring Hyper-V settings
• Creating and configuring a virtual machine
• Managing a virtual machine by using Power Shell Direct

[*]     Installing and configuring containers

• Using Windows Power Shell
• Using Docker

[*]     Planning and implementing a high availability and disaster recovery solution

• Determining the appropriate high availability and disaster recovery solution
• Implementing storage migration
• Implementing Hyper-V Replica

[*]     Implementing a fail-over cluster

• Creating a fail-over cluster
• Verifying quorum settings and adding a node

[*]     Managing a fail-over cluster

• Evicting a node and verifying quorum settings
• Changing the quorum from Disk Witness to File Share Witness, and defining node voting
• Adding and removing disks from the cluster

[*]     Implementing fail-over clustering with Hyper-V

• Configuring a fail-over cluster for Hyper-V
• Configuring a highly available virtual machine

[*]     Implementing an NLB cluster

• Configuring and managing the NLB cluster
• Validating high availability for the NLB cluster

[*]     Using MDT to deploy Windows Server 2016

• Installing and configuring MDT
• Creating and deploying an image

[*]     Implementing WSUS and deploying updates

• Implementing WSUS
• Configuring update settings
• Approving and deploying an update by using WSUS

[*]     Monitoring and troubleshooting Windows Server 2016

• Establishing a performance baseline
• Identifying the source of a performance problem
• Viewing and configuring centralized event logs