Exam 70-219 Objectives
Analyzing Business Requirements
Analyze the existing and planned business models.
- Analyze the company model and the
geographical scope. Models include international, national,
regional, branch, and subsidiary offices.
- Analyze company processes. Processes
include information flow, communication flow, service and
product life cycles, and decision-making.
Analyze the existing and planned organizational
structures. Considerations include the management model; company
organization; vendor, partner, and customer relationships; and
acquisition plans.
Analyze factors that influence company
strategies.
- Identify company priorities.
- Identify the projected growth and growth
strategy.
- Identify relevant laws and regulations.
- Identify the company's tolerance for risk.
- Identify the total cost of operations.
Analyze the structure of IT management.
Considerations include the type of administration,such as
centralized or decentralized; funding model; outsourcing;
decision-making process; and change-management process.
Analyzing Technical Requirements
Evaluate the company's existing and planned
technical environment.
- Analyze company size and the distribution
of users and resources.
- Assess the available connectivity between
the geographic locations of work sites and remote sites.
- Assess the net available bandwidth.
- Analyze performance requirements.
- Analyze data and system access patterns.
- Analyze network roles and responsibilities.
- Analyze security considerations.
Analyze the impact of Active Directory on the
existing and planned technical environment. Considerations include
Microsoft Exchange 2000.
- Assess existing systems and applications.
- Identify existing and planned upgrades and
rollouts.
- Analyze the technical support structure.
- Analyze existing and planned network and
systems management.
Analyze the business requirements for client
computer desktop management.
- Analyze end-user work needs.
- Identify technical support needs for end
users.
- Establish the required client computer
environment.
Designing a Directory Service Architecture
Define the scope of the Active Directory
design.
Design an Active Directory forest and domain
structure.
- Design a forest and schema structure.
- Design a domain structure.
- Analyze and optimize trust relationship
requirements.
Design an Active Directory naming strategy.
- Plan the WINS NetBIOS name resolution
strategy.
- Design the namespace.
- Plan the DNS strategy.
Design and plan the structure of organizational
units. Considerations include administrative control, existing
domain structures, administrative policy, and geographic and company
structure.
- Develop an organizational unit delegation
plan.
- Plan Group Policy object management.
- Develop a change in the configuration
management plan for client computers.
Plan for the coexistence of Active Directory and
other directory services.
Design a schema modification policy.
Design an Active Directory implementation plan.
Designing Service Locations
Design the placement of operations masters.
Considerations include performance, fault tolerance, functionality,
and manageability.
Design the placement of global catalog
servers. Considerations include performance, fault tolerance,
functionality, and manageability.
Design the placement of domain controllers.
Considerations include performance, fault tolerance, functionality,
and manageability.
Design the placement of DNS, WINS, and DHCP
servers. Considerations include performance, fault tolerance,
functionality, manageability, and interoperability.
Design an Active Directory site topology.
- Design a replication strategy.
- Define site boundaries.
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