Microsoft 98-365 : Windows Server Administration Fundamentals

Skills measured

• Understanding server installation (10–15%)
• Understanding server performance management (10–15%)
• Understanding server maintenance (15–20%)
• Understanding storage (10–15%)
• Understanding server roles (25–30%)
• Understanding Active Directory (20–25%)

Microsoft 98-365: Skills Measured

There are several topics included in the exam syllabus and each of them is based on a particular skill set. These sections and their subtopics are listed below.

• Managing Server Performance (10-15%)

  This subject area encompasses one’s understanding of major server hardware components, performance monitoring, knowledge of alerts & logs, familiarity with Event Viewer. The test takers should be conversant with CPU and Disk Action, removable drives, 64-bit and 32-bit architecture, and graphic cards. They should also have expertise in processors, memory, disk, and network.

• Understanding Storage (10-15%)

  This section revolves around identifying storage technologies along with their usual usage scenarios; understanding of RAID redundancy; understanding of disk types. The specific skills covered in this area include your understanding of Solid State Drive (SSD) & Hard Disk Drive (HDD) types, dynamic disk, ATA basic disk, file systems, mount points, mounting a virtual hard disk, as well as distributed file systems. You need to be knowledgeable about iSCSI hardware and Fibre Channel, local & network storage, advantages and disadvantages of various storage topologies. Other skills measured include RAID 0/1/5/10, hardware and software RAID, etc.

• Maintaining Server (15-20%)

  This domain focuses on assessing the students’ proficiency in server maintenance. This means that they are required to have the ability to identify the steps in a startup process, understand business continuity, understand updates, and troubleshooting technologies.

• Understanding Active Directory (20-25%)

  The skills measured under this domain include the candidates’ understanding of accounts and groups, organizational units and containers, Active Directory infrastructure, and group policy. The learners should also have a deep understanding of GUDLP and AGDLP processes and how to use them to help implement nesting. The examinees must demonstrate that they are conversant with user profiles, domain accounts, computer accounts, local accounts, group nesting, group scopes, default groups, etc. Other competencies assessed within this topic are default visible & hidden infrastructure, default containers, purpose of OUs, uses for various container objects, and so on.

• Understanding Server Installation (10-15%)

  Within this knowledge area, the learners are supposed to demonstrate that they have a thorough understanding of device drivers. This includes their knowledge of installation, disabling, removal, driver signing, interrupts, IRQ, managing through Group Policy, troubleshooting, rollback, and update & upgrade. The candidates also need to demonstrate their understanding of services. They should be able to identify which statuses a given service can be in, be familiar with the startup types, delayed startup, pausing/stopping a service, service accounts, dependencies, recovery options, and Run As settings for the service. The topic also measures the individuals’ understanding of server installation options. These include Desktop vs Server core, choosing the appropriate operating system version options; using Windows Deployment Services to accomplish automated installation; performing upgrades, migrations, and clean installation; VHDX/VHD installation source; executing unattended installs, etc.

• Understanding Server Roles (25-30%)

  To answer the questions related to this topic, the applicants should be able to demonstrate their competence in identifying application servers, including mail servers, monitoring servers, database servers, threat management, as well as collaboration servers. They should also have a professional understanding of Web services. These include IIS Modes of Operation, installing from the Server Manager, FTP & WWW, separating worker processes, and adding SSL, certificates, sites, components, and ports. In addition, the test takers also need to demonstrate their understanding of remote access, which requires knowledge about remote assistance, licensing, remote administration tools & desktop services, VPN, multiple services, RD Gateway, multiple ports, as well as application virtualization. They should also have a solid comprehension of print & file services and server virtualization.

Reference: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-98-365.aspx

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