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Microsoft Certifications are one of the most widely acclaimed, pursued, and achieved
technical certifications in the IT industry. The demand for Microsoft Certified
Professionals in the job market is increasing every year.

Microsoft offers a number of certification levels depending on specific areas of

proficiency and nature of job. Some of the certifications pertaining to networking are:

1. Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

2. Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA)
3. Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE)

Each certification level has certain exams associated with it. You can decide the
appropriate certification exam based on your experience, skills, and interests.

Benefits of Microsoft Certifications

1. Microsoft Certifications provide a standard method for testing employee skills.

The certifications provide employers a valid benchmark for evaluating the
employee's abilities. This will provide you the recognition and reward as per your
expertise.
2. Microsoft Certifications offer prospective employers a baseline to judge your
knowledge, skill, and expertise in the field. Certifications can provide added
advantage if you are at the same level of experience as another person without
certifications.
3. Certifications are a valuable tool if you have no or very little experience. The
certifications that you hold can prove and reassure your employers and
consultants about your knowledge in the field. This will help you secure good job
as well as negotiate a good salary.

Pre-Requisite Experience (Recommended) for Microsoft Certifications

To pursue this certification you should have at least 1 year of experience in:

1. Implementing and administering a network operating system in environments

with 50 to 26,000 supported users, in approximately 3 to 150 physical locations.
2. Implementing network services and applications such as file and print services,
database services, messaging services, proxy server or firewall services, dial-in
server services, and Web hosting.
3. Implementing and administering a desktop operating system.
4. Designing a network infrastructure with 3 or more domain controllers.
Significance of Microsoft Certifications for Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Microsoft has developed independent certification requirements for Microsoft Windows

Server 2003. An aspirant can certify directly for MCSE/MCSA in Windows 2003 if they
are new to certification process. If the aspirant is already a certified MCSE /MCSA in
Windows 2000, then they can follow the upgrade path for MCSEs in Windows 2000 to
secure Windows 2003 Certifications. If the aspirant certifies in MCSE for Windows
NT4.0, they can earn MCSE in Windows 2003 by following the upgrade path for MCSEs
in Windows NT4.0.

The exams are slightly more challenging than their Windows 2000 counterparts, but they
will actually test your hands-on knowledge since that is the most important part of
ensuring that a certification is credible.

Exam 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Environment

Exam 70-290 is the first in the series of the core exams for MCSE certifications.

When you pass the Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Environment (MCSE 70-290) exam, you achieve Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
status. You also earn credit toward the following certifications:

• Core credit towards Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) on

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 certification
• Core credit towards Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 certification

MCSE 70-290 exam objectives are:

Objective 1: Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices

In this objective you will need to demonstrate expertise in managing and maintaining
physical and logical devices. As an administrator, you should understand Basic and
Dynamic disks, RAID configuration and troubleshooting, driver signing, and the use of
tools, such as Device Manager and Hardware Troubleshooting Wizard. Familiarize
yourself with Device Manager and the warning and disabled icons found when problems
are present on installed devices.

Objective 2: Managing Users, Computers, and Groups

This objective includes many topics, so you should be prepared to face many questions
that fall into this category. Have a healthy introduction to profile management, user and
group accounts, permissions, and troubleshooting. Practice a lot on GPOs and perform a
variety of administrative tasks, including configuration of desktop settings, control of
security settings, assignment of scripts, redirection of folders, and software distribution.
Also, get a clear understanding on inheritance and filtering.

Objective 3: Managing and Maintaining Access to Resources

Knowing how to configure, monitor, audit and troubleshoot NTFS permissions based
issues are one of those most important areas that you need to know this concept
thoroughly and also be sure to brush up on your share permissions and share/NTFS
permissions interaction. Do not forget to brush up on how folder and file permissions can
change or stay the same when copying or moving within a drive or between drives.

Objective 4: Managing and Maintaining a Server Environment

In this objective you'll find questions from topics, such as Event Viewer, System
Monitor, software updates (including the functionality of Microsoft's Software Update
Service or SUS), Remote Assistance, disk quotas, print queues, performance objects and
IIS 6.0. Spend time understanding IIS topics around Web sites, Virtual and physical
directories, files and host and cname records in DNS. New to Windows Server 2003 is
SUS. Understand clearly how SUS is used for deploying and managing client and server
critical updates.

Objective 5: Managing and Implementing Disaster Recovery

In this objective you'll find questions on ASR, VSS, backing up files and system state
data, configuring security for backup operators, verifying backup jobs, managing media,
restoring and scheduling backups and recovering from server hardware failures. You
should take some extra time to get familiar with the various types of backups that
Windows Server 2003 supports, as well as the various configuration options that are
available to you. Practice making backups of different types and then practice restoring
them.

MCSE 70-290 Exam Model

Most of the questions in the MCSE 70-290 exam are multiple choice type. The questions
require the "best" answer from several close responses. Other questions may present an
implementation scenario, requirements, and a proposed solution and then ask if the
solution meets all of the requirements or combinations of the primary and secondary
requirements. Microsoft has introduced some testing innovations for the certification
exams. These question types present a more realistic visual representation of the tasks a
MCSE would do in future. These are:

• Hot Area Questions - This type of question requires indicating the correct answer
by selecting one or more elements within a graphic.
• Active Screen Questions - This type of question asks you to configure a dialog
box by changing one or more elements.
 • Drag and Drop Questions - This type of question asks you to drag source objects
to appropriate targets within a work area.
• Build List and Reorder Questions - This type of question asks you to indicate the
correct answer by building an answer list. In a Build List and Reorder question,
you need to build a list by dragging the appropriate source objects to the answer
list and then placing them in the correct order based on criteria defined in the
question.
• Create a Tree Questions - This type of question asks you to create a tree structure.
You indicate the correct answer by dragging source nodes to the correct locations
in the answer tree. Nodes consist of text and a small icon.
• Windows Simulation Questions - This type of question asks you to indicate the
correct answer by performing specific tasks such as configuring and installing
network adapters or drivers, configuring and controlling access to files, and
managing hardware devices. Many of the tasks that systems administrators and
systems engineers perform can be presented more accurately in simulations than
in most traditional exam question types.

You can get hands-on experience on new set of questions that are available in Whizlabs
MCSE 70-290 Exam Simulator. This will help you plan your study regime to ensure
success.

Passing Score

Microsoft has normalized scoring for all MCP exams, so the same passing score applies
to all exams. 700 is now the minimum passing score for all MCP exams. However, the
maximum score (which used to top out at 1000) varies per exam, depending on the
complexity of the skills measured.

Time Limit

The exam duration is 175 minutes with 45 questions. You will have plenty of time to
answer the exam questions, so there is no need to rush. If you have spare time available,
you can double check the questions and ensure that you have read them correctly and
actually answered the question as intended.

Exam Result

Instead of reporting results based on major categories for exam objectives as it used to,
Microsoft is now providing numerical scores and bar graphs for "skills clusters".
Visually, the bars in the exam report show you how well you fare in each skills cluster. If
bars that represent cluster scores are close to one end of the graph, they indicate stronger
skills; bars near the other end indicate weaker skills. Please store your exam results in
both paper and electronic format for later reference.

Sample Questions
Question 1

You are a systems administrator for TicTacToe Toy Manufacturers. All servers in the
company run on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. The company's Active Directory
infrastructure consists of a single domain hosted on two domain controllers named Tic1
and Tic2.

Tic2 experienced a hard disk failure, and hence has been taken offline. Tic2 remained
offline for some days while all Active Directory updates were made to Tic1. You proceed
to restore the data from backup while ensuring that the latest Active Directory changes
are replicated to Tic2.

How should you restore the lost data from backup?

Choices:

A. Perform authoritative restore on Tic1.

B. Perform normal restore on Tic2.

C. Perform primary restore on Tic2.

D. Perform authoritative restore onTic2.

Correct Choice: B

Explanation:

Choice B is the correct answer.

During a normal restore operation; Backup operates in non-authoritative restore mode.

That is, any data that you restore, including Active Directory objects, will have their
original update sequence number. The Active Directory replication system uses this
number to detect and propagate Active Directory changes among the servers in your
organization. Because of this, any data that is restored non-authoritatively will appear to
the Active Directory replication system as though it is old, which means the data will
never be replicated to your other servers. Instead, if newer data is available from your
other domain controllers, the Active Directory replication will update the restored data.
Hence, choices A, C, and D are incorrect.

Question 2

You are a systems administrator for Blueberry Packaging Industries. All servers in the
company run on Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

You create a folder named Custom Package on the company's file server to contain the
company's files. You share this folder as Custom Package. The folder is configured with
default NTFS permissions and default share permissions. The file server is located in a
secure room.

Within the shared folder, Managers should be able to add and change files and
subfolders. Employees in the Sales and Packers department should be able to change and
delete files and subfolders. All other employees should only be able to view the files.

All Sales employees are members of the Sales domain local security group. All Managers
are members of the Managers domain local security group. The Packers are members of
the Packers global security group.

How should you modify share level permissions on the Custom Package folder so that the
appropriate users have the minimum required privileges? (Choose all that apply)

Choices:

A. Grant Change share permissions to Managers.

B. Deny Full Control share permissions to Managers.

C. Grant Change share permissions to Sales.

D. Grant Full Control share permissions to Sales.

E. Grant Change share permissions to Packers.

 F. Grant Full Control share permissions to Packers.

G. Deny Full Control share permissions to Everyone.

H. Remove Everyone from the share permissions list.

Correct Choices: A, C, and E

Explanation:

Choices A, C, and E are the correct answers.

Change permissions allow the users to create, delete, and change any files and folders in
the shared folder, provided the users have appropriate NTFS permissions on the files and
folders. The default NTFS permission in Windows Server 2003 is Read for Everyone and
the default share level permissions grant Read access to Everyone. You should not
remove Everyone from the share permission list. By default, share level permissions
grant Read access to Everyone.

How to Prepare for Microsoft Certification?

Following are the steps to prepare for Microsoft certification.

1. MCSE exams are not easy, as advertised on many websites. The MCSE
Certifications are tough, so plan to put in a lot of time and effort getting ready for
your certification exams. Get all information you can about the certification
exams and then start working towards your goal.
2. Get hands on experience. The first step in the preparation for any Microsoft
Certification is hands on experience with the related product. For MCSE, the
aspirant needs to have at least a year of working experience and for MCSA, the
minimum recommended time of experience is 6 months. If you are not working
anywhere, it will help, if you can volunteer your IT skill services to gain valuable
experience.
3. You can set up a small network at home to practice. Setting up the home network
will give a great opportunity to learn. You can practice the lab exercises in the
home network as and when you study. This will give you a better understanding
of the theories than just studying the exam guides.
 4. Get trained in the related product. If possible, try to get training in the related
product in a Microsoft Authorized Training Center. You can use training
resources to supplement your skills and experience. You can also use the
Microsoft Official Curriculum for the related exam as well as Microsoft Press
books that are available for the exam.
5. For Exam 70-290, the main areas that you need to concentrate are
o Automated System Recovery (ASR)
o Diskpart utility
o Diskraid utility
o Emergency Management Services (EMS)
o File Replication Service (FRS)
o Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)
o Open File Backup
o Password Backup and Restore Wizard
o Remote Assistance
o Remote Desktop
o Shadow copying of shared folders
o Software Update Services (SUS)
o Virtual disk service
o Permissions -Share and NTFS
o Users, Computers, and Groups
6. Use the preparation guide of the exam that you want to take and read it
thoroughly. You should know all the exam objectives of MCSE 70-290 covered
in the exam preparation guide.
7. Use practice test software packages. Whizlabs MCSE 70-290 Exam Simulator is
an example.
8. Do NOT use Braindumps. Braindumps might help you get the certification, but
you will lack important practical knowledge about the product. Hence, your
prospects of landing a good IT job will be less. Some brain dumps deliberately
mislead you. So BEWARE!
9. You can participate in any online discussion forum, where you can participate in
an ongoing dialogue and even ask doubts if you have any. You are sure to get the
right guidance.

You've learned the details about the MCSE 70-290 Exam, its pattern, objectives etc.
Download the MCSE Exam Preparation Guide to learn how Whizlabs can help you
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Articles on Windows 2003

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Microsoft Online Resources

1. TechNet : Designed for IT professionals, this resource includes Howto's, best

practices, downloads, technical chats, and much more.
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developers, featuring code samples, technical articles, newsgroups, chats, and
more.
3. Training & Certification Newsgroups : A newsgroup exists for every Microsoft
certification. By participating in the ongoing dialogue, you take advantage of a
unique opportunity to exchange ideas with and ask questions of others, including
more than 750 Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) worldwide.

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