Exam 70-221 Objectives
Analyzing Business Requirements
Analyze the existing and planned business models.
- Analyze the company model and the
geographical scope. Models include regional, national,
international, subsidiary, and branch 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 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 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 and goals.
- Analyze company size and user and resource
distribution.
- Assess the available connectivity between
the geographic location of worksites and remote sites.
- Assess net available bandwidth and latency
issues.
- Analyze performance, availability, and
scalability requirements of services.
- Analyze data and system access patterns.
- Analyze network roles and responsibilities.
- Analyze security considerations.
Analyze the impact of infrastructure design on
the existing and planned technical environment.
- Assess current applications.
- Analyze network infrastructure, protocols,
and hosts.
- Evaluate network services.
- Analyze TCP/IP infrastructure.
- Assess current hardware.
- Identify existing and planned upgrades and
rollouts.
- Analyze technical support structure.
- Analyze existing and planned network and
systems management.
Analyze the network requirements for client
computer access.
- Analyze end-user work needs.
- Analyze end-user usage patterns.
Analyze the existing disaster recovery strategy
for client computers, servers, and the network.
Designing a Windows 2000 Network
Infrastructure
Modify and design a network topology.
Design a TCP/IP networking strategy.
- Analyze IP subnet requirements.
- Design a TCP/IP addressing and
implementation plan.
- Measure and optimize a TCP/IP
infrastructure design.
- Integrate software routing into existing
networks.
- Integrate TCP/IP with existing WAN
requirements.
Design a DHCP strategy.
- Integrate DHCP into a routed environment.
- Integrate DHCP with Windows 2000.
- Design a DHCP service for remote locations.
- Measure and optimize a DHCP infrastructure
design.
Design name resolution services.
- Create an integrated DNS design.
- Create a secure DNS design.
- Create a highly available DNS design.
- Measure and optimize a DNS infrastructure
design.
- Design a DNS deployment strategy.
- Create a WINS design.
- Create a secure WINS design.
- Measure and optimize a WINS infrastructure
design.
- Design a WINS deployment strategy.
Design a multi-protocol strategy. Protocols
include IPX/SPX and SNA.
Design a Distributed file system (Dfs)
strategy.
- Design the placement of a Dfs root.
- Design a Dfs root replica strategy.
Designing for Internet Connectivity
Design an Internet and extranet access
solution. Components of the solution could include proxy server,
firewall, routing and remote access, Network Address Translation
(NAT), connection sharing, Web server, or mail server.
Design a load-balancing strategy.
Designing a Wide Area Network Infrastructure
Design an implementation strategy for dial-up
remote access.
- Design a remote access solution that uses
Routing and Remote Access.
- Integrate authentication with Remote
Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS).
Design a virtual private network (VPN) strategy.
Design a Routing and Remote Access routing
solution to connect locations.
- Design a demand-dial routing strategy.
Designing a Management and Implementation
Strategy for Windows 2000 Networking
Design a strategy for monitoring and managing
Windows 2000 network services. Services include global catalog,
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) services, Certificate
Services, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Routing and Remote Access, Proxy Server,
and Dfs.
Design network services that support application
architecture.
Design a plan for the interaction of Windows
2000 network services such as WINS, DHCP, and DNS.
Design a resource strategy.
- Plan for the placement and management of
resources.
- Plan for growth.
- Plan for Decentralized resources or
centralized resources.
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