The Exam 70-290 Topics
44 questions + 3 simulations
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SECTION A
Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices
- Manage basic disks and dynamic disks
- Monitor server hardware tools might include device manager - troubleshooting wizard and control panel items
- Optimize server disk performance
- Implement a RAID solution
- Defragment volumes or partitions
- Troubleshoot server hardware devices
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to hardware settings
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to server hardware and hardware driver upgrades
- Install and configure server hardware devices
- Configure driver signing options
- Configure resource settings for a device
- Configure device properties and settings
SECTION B
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 user is a member
- Manage group memberships
- Manage group memberships
- Create and modify groups by using 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 a computer account
- Troubleshoot user accounts
- Diagnose and resolve account lockouts
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to users account properties troubleshoot user authentication issues
SECTION C
Managing and Maintaining Access to Resources
- Configure access to shared folders
- Manage shared folder permission
- 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 ownerships of files or folders
- Troubleshoot Access to files and shared folders
SECTION D
Managing and Maintaining a Server Environment
- Monitor and analyse 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 and analyze events 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
SECTION E
Managing and Implementing Disaster Recovery
- Perform system recovery for a server
- Implement automated system recovery (ASR)
- Restore data from shadow copy volumes
- Backup 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
