MCSA

Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016

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