Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291 Online Training Course
Course Topics: 14
Estimated Time Needed: 54 hour(s)
Audience: This training course is for anyone preparing for the MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-291 or anyone who wants an introduction to Windows Server 2003.
Course Description: The Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSA/MCSE 70-291 online course is designed to help learners prepare for Microsoft exam number 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure. This online course covers topics such as networking models, IP addressing and routing, classless subnet masking and client address configuration, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). In addition, the informative courses detail Windows Internet Name Server (WINS), Domain Naming System (DNS), Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS), and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) Services. Finally, learners are taught to understand security templates and software updates, monitoring and troubleshooting network activity, and LAN routing.
Course Tutorials Include:
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291: 1 TCP/IP Protocol
Description
This course provides an overview of the OSI, Microsoft, and TCP/IP Networking Models, as well as major application layer protocols.
Objectives
- Understand the purpose and function of networking models
- Identify the seven layers of the OSI networking model
- Identify the Microsoft networking model
- Identify the four layers of the TCP/IP protocol suite
- Identify several application layer protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291: 2 IP Addressing and Routing
Description
This course provides an overview of IP addressing and routing, including binary conversion, network classes, subnetting, and name resolution.
Objectives
- Convert IP addresses to binary and to decimal
- Identify the network and host ID portions of an IP address based on address class
- Explain subnetting and subnet masking
- Perform bitwise ANDing
- Distinguish between static and dynamic routing table updates
- Explain the use of four commonly used routing utilities
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291: 3 Classless Subnet Masking and Client Address Configuration
Description
This course provides an overview of subnetting, supernetting, the XP/2000 routing table, assigning IP addresses, and APIPA.
Objectives
- Subnet Class A, B, and C networks
- Supernet a Class C network
- Make changes to the routing table
- Configure a static IP address
- Use alternate IP addressing configurations
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291: 4 The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Description
This course provides an overview of DHCP leases, as well as installing and configuring DHCP service.
Objectives
- Explain the DHCP lease process
- Install DHCP service
- Create and configure different type of DHCP scopes
- List DHCP option types
- Create DHCP/BOOTP reservations
- Allocate IP addresses appropriately
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291: 5 Integrating and Troubleshooting DHCP
Description
This course provides an overview of configuring the DHCP Relay Agent, Dynamic DNS, Routing and Remote Access, and Active Directory. It also covers automatic addressing, as well as managing and monitoring DHCP.
Objectives
- Configure the DHCP Relay Agent
- Use DNS upgrading options
- Configure your RRAS server to use DHCP
- Integrate DHCP with Active Directory
- Disable APIPA
- Back up and restore a DHCP database
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291: 6 Windows Internet Name Server (WINS)
Description
This course provides an overview of WINS, including installation, push and pull replication, records management, and database administration.
Objectives
- Install and configure WINS
- Manage WINS records and its database
- Configure WINS replication
- Reconcile WINS records
- Backup and restore the WINS database
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291: 7 WINS Client and Interoperability and NetBIOS
Description
This course provides an overview of configuring WINS clients, troubleshooting WINS clients and servers, and NetBIOS name resolution, registration, and node types.
Objectives
- Configure network clients to support WINS either directly or through a WINS proxy agent
- Describe how WINS interoperates with DNS and DHCP
- Configure WINS with RRAS
- Describe the WINS browser list
- Describe the NetBIOS name registration and resolution processes
- Define NetBIOS concepts such as node types and LMHOSTS file
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291: 8 Domain Naming System Concepts
Description
This course provides an overview of DNS conventions, resolution, namespace, concepts, resource records, zones, and Active Directory service integration.
Objectives
- Explain the function of DNS
- Describe the DNS namespace
- Create DNS zones and records
- Outline DNS server roles
- Manage record aging and scavenging
- Integrate Active Directory and DNS
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291: 9 The DNS Server
Description
This course provides an overview of installing, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting a DNS server.
Objectives
- Install DNS on a server
- Configure forward and reverse lookup zones
- Configure and manage DNS
- Monitor and troubleshoot DNS
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291:10 Routing and Remote Access Service VPN Services
Description
This course provides an overview of enabling remote access, configuring a VPN server, authenticating VPN clients, creating dial-up connections and gateways, and troubleshooting VPN.
Objectives
- Enable remote access on a VPN server
- Identify available authentication protocols
- Describe the process of tunneling
- Configure a VPN server for remote access
- Configure a VPN client for remote access
- Create a VPN Gateway
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291:11 Security Templates and Software Updates
Description
This course provides an overview of network security settings, analyzing security, applying security templates, and installing software updates.
Objectives
- Implement secure network administration procedures
- Implement security baseline settings and audit security settings using security templates
- Install and configure the Software Update Service
- Install and configure Automatic Client Update Settings
- Support Legacy clients
- Install and configure WINS redundancy
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291:12 Monitoring and Troubleshooting Network Activity
Description
This course provides an overview of installing and configuring Network Monitor, including trace interpretation, NAT logging, troubleshooting name resolution and client configuration, quarantine control, DHCP issues, and monitoring IPSec connection.
Objectives
- Install and configure Network Monitor
- Use Network Monitor to troubleshoot network problems
- Identify network problems relating to Network Address Translation, name resolution, IP addressing, and IP security
- Troubleshoot IPSec connections using the IPSec Security Monitor
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291:13 LAN Routing and Dial-Up Services
Description
This course provides an overview of configuring LAN routing, RAS, PPP Multilink, BAP, and wireless connections.
Objectives
- Configure LAN routing
- Configure RRAS packet filters
- Configure a Windows Server 2003 Routing and Remote Access Service
- Configure a Routing and Remote RAS dial-up Gateway
- Configure wireless networking
Windows Server 2003 Network Management MCSE 70-291:14 LAN and Dial-Up Security
Description
This course provides an overview of remote access policies, router protocols, RIP, OSPF, IGMP, firewall support, NAT, ICMP, remote access client and server connections, and IAS.
Objectives
- Configure remote access policies
- Identify and describe the router protocols supported by Windows Server 2003
- Enable and configure basic firewall support
- Enable and configure Network Address Translation (NAT) services
- Describe and configure ICMP router discovery
- Troubleshoot remote access client and server connections
- Configure Internet Authentication Services
Features
- Flash and audio provide animated, interactive Lesson Introductions, Activities, and Simulations.
- Show Me Hows allow learners to access instructional demonstrations from all courses in the series.
- Simulations teach learners to perform specific tasks in applications through guided, multi-step exercises.
- Activities allow learners to apply course concepts in an interactive questioning environment.
- Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied.
- A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
- Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
- Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
- Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
- A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
- A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
- Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.