Designing a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure

Describe key components of network infrastructure design.

Describe how to design a secure network.

Design a plan for allocating IP addresses to workstations and servers.

Design a network topology.

Describe the internal considerations for network security and how they can be addressed.

Design an appropriate name resolution system that incorporates Domain Name System (DNS).

Optimize a name resolution system that incorporates DNS and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS).

Design a solution for network access.

Design a Network Access Protection (NAP) solution.

Design a solution for operating system deployment and maintenance.

Design the deployment of file services.

Design print services in Windows Server 2008.

Design high availability for applications and services.

Active Directory Technology Specialist level knowledge and concepts.

Network Infrastructure Technology Specialist level knowledge and experience.

Applications Infrastructure Technology Specialist level knowledge and experience.

Windows Vista TS or D

Experience with Windows operating systems such as Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista

Intermediate understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, name resolution, and connection methods.

Intermediate understanding of security best practices for authentication and file permissions.

Intermediate understanding of server and network hardware.

Preparing for Network Infrastructure Design

Designing the Network Topology

Designing Network Infrastructure for Virtualization

Designing a Change Management Structure for a Network

Exercise 1: Preparing for the Network Infrastructure Design

Exercise 2: Designing the Network Topology

Exercise 3: Designing Network Infrastructure for Virtualization

Exercise 4: Designing a Change Management plan

Exercise 5: Lab Discussion

Describe the network infrastructure design.

Design the network topology.

Design network infrastructure for virtualization.

Design a change management structure for a network.

Overview of Network Security Design

Creating a Security Plan

Identifying Threats to Network Security

Analyzing Security Risks

The Defense-in-Depth Model

Exercise 1: Designing a Team for the Security Plan

Exercise 2: Identifying Threats

Exercise 3: Analyzing Risk

Exercise 4: Discussion of Designing a Network Security Plan

Describe the security design process.

Describe the components of a security plan.

Describe how to identify threats.

Describe how to assess risk.

Describe the defense-in-depth model.

Designing an IPv4 Addressing Scheme

Designing an IPv6 Addressing Scheme

Designing DHCP Implementation

Designing DHCP Configuration Options

Exercise 1: Designing an IPv4 Addressing Scheme

Exercise 2: Designing an IPv6 Addressing Scheme

Exercise 3: Designing a DHCP Implementation

Exercise 4: Discussion of IP Address Allocation

Describe how to integrate IPv4 and IPv6.

Describe how to allocate IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

Describe how to implement DHCP placement.

Describe how to determine DHCP options

Preparing for Designing a Network Routing Topology

Selecting Network Devices

Designing Internet Connectivity and Perimeter Networks

Designing Routing Communications

Evaluating Network Performance

Exercise 1: Designing the Placement of Routers

Exercise 2: Designing a Perimeter Network

Exercise 3: Evaluating Network Performance

Exercise 4: Discussion of Designing a Network Routing Topology

Prepare for designing a network routing topology.

Design the placement of routers.

Design a perimeter network.

Design routing communications.

Evaluate network performance.

Designing Windows Firewall Implementation

Overview of IPSec

Designing IPSec Implementation

Exercise 1: Designing a Windows Firewall Implementation

Exercise 2: Designing an IPSec Implementation

Describe how Windows Firewall can be used to secure networks

Describe how IPSec can be used to secure networks

Collecting Information for a Name Resolution Design

Designing a DNS Server Strategy

Designing a DNS Namespace

Designing DNS Zone Implementation

Designing Zone Replication and Delegation

Exercise 1: Designing a DNS server strategy

Exercise 2: Designing a DNS namespace

Exercise 3: Designing a DNS zone and replication strategy

Exercise 4: Discuss the design of name resolution

Exercise 5: Implement a DNS zone and replication strategy

Determine the information required to plan name resolution.

Describe how to design a DNS server strategy.

Describe how to design a DNS namespace

Describe how to design a DNS zone strategy.

Describe how to design a DNS zone replication strategy.

Optimizing DNS Queries

Designing DNS for High Availability

Designing a WINS Name Resolution Strategy

Exercise 1: Optimize DNS resolution

Exercise 2: Designing and Configuring WINS Name Resolution

Exercise 3: Integrating DNS and WINS Name Resolution

Optimize DNS resolution.

Design DNS for high availability.

Design a WINS Name resolution strategy.

Gathering Data for Designing Network Access Solutions

Securing and Controlling Network Access

Designing Remote Access Services

‘Designing RADIUS Authentication with Network Policy Services’

Designing Wireless Access

Exercise 1: Determining Network Access Requirements

Exercise 2: Designing a Remote Access Solution

Exercise 3: Designing Network Policy Services

Exercise 4: Discuss the Design of Network Access

Exercise 5: Designing a Wireless Connection Solution

Describe how to gather data for designing network access solutions.

Describe how to secure and control network access.

Describe how to design remote access services.

Describe how to design a RADIUS solution.

Describe how to design wireless access.

Designing the NAP Platform Architecture

Network Policy Server Component Design

Designing NAP Enforcement Point and Client Component Requirements

IPSec Enforcement for NAP

Exercise 1: Designing the NAP Platform Architecture

Exercise 2: Designing and Implementing the Network Policy Server Components

Exercise 3: Designing and Implementing the NAP Enforcement and Client Components

Describe how to design the NAP platform architecture.

Describe NPS design for NAP.

Describe how to design NAP enforcement point and client component requirements.

Describe IPSec based NAP.

Determining Operating System Deployment Requirements

Deploying an Operating System by Using WDS

Planning for the Creation and Modification of Images

Designing Multicast Transmission of Images

Exercise 1: Designing an Operating System Deployment Solution

Exercise 2: Designing WDS Deployment

Exercise 3: Designing WDS Images

Exercise 4: Discussing WDS Deployment and Images Design

Exercise 5: Implementing Multicast Transmissions for Images

Determine operating system deployment requirements

Describe operating system deployment using Windows Deployment Services.

Plan the creation and modification of images.

Design multicast transmission of images.

Designing File Services

Designing DFS

Designing the FSRM Configuration

Exercise 1: Designing and Implementing DFS

Exercise 2: Designing and Implementing FSRM

Describe the design of file services.

Describe the design of Distributed File System (DFS).

Describe the design of File Server Resource Manager (FSRM).

Overview of a Print Services Design

Designing Print Services

Exercise 1: Analyzing the Components of a Print Services Design

Exercise 2: Designing a Shared Printer Deployment

Describe the print services design.

Design print services.

Overview of High Availability

Designing Network Load Balancing for High Availability

Designing Failover Clustering for High Availability

Designing Geographically Dispersed Failover Clusters

Exercise 1: Designing High Availability

Exercise 2: Implementing an NLB Design

Exercise 3: Implementing a Failover Cluster Design

Describe the need for high availability.

Describe how to design Network Load Balancing for high availability

Describe how to design Failover Clustering for high availability

Describe how to design geographically dispersed failover clustering.