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Skills measured by exam 70-290

• Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices
• Manage basic disks and dynamic disks.
• Monitor server hardware. Tools might include Device Manager, the Hardware Troubleshooting Wizard, and appropriate Control Panel items.
• Optimize server disk performance.

• • Implement a RAID solution.
  • Defragment volumes and partitions.

• Install and configure server hardware devices.

• • Configure driver signing options.
  • Configure resource settings for a device.
  • Configure device properties and settings.

• Managing Users, Computers, and Groups
• Manage local, roaming, and mandatory user profiles.
• Create and manage computer accounts in an Active Directory environment.
• Create and manage groups.

• • Identify and modify the scope of a group.
  • Find domain groups in which a user is a member.
  • Manage group membership.
  • Create and modify groups by using the Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in.
  • Create and modify groups by using automation.

• Create and manage user accounts.

• • Create and modify user accounts by using the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in.
  • Create and modify user accounts by using automation.
  • Import user accounts.

• Troubleshoot computer accounts.

• • Diagnose and resolve issues related to computer accounts by using the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in.
  • Reset computer accounts.

• Troubleshoot user accounts.

• • Diagnose and resolve account lockouts.
  • Diagnose and resolve issues related to user account properties.

• Troubleshoot user authentication issues.
• Managing and Maintaining Access to Resources
• Configure access to shared folders.

• • Manage shared folder permissions.

• Troubleshoot Terminal Services.

• • Diagnose and resolve issues related to Terminal Services security.
  • Diagnose and resolve issues related to client access to Terminal Services.

• Configure file system permissions.

• • Verify effective permissions when granting permissions.
  • Change ownership of files and folders.

• Troubleshoot access to files and shared folders.
• Managing and Maintaining a Server Environment
• Monitor and analyze events. Tools might include Event Viewer and System Monitor.
• Manage software update infrastructure.
• Manage software site licensing.
• Manage servers remotely.

• • Manage a server by using Remote Assistance.
  • Manage a server by using Terminal Services remote administration mode.
  • Manage a server by using available support tools.

• Troubleshoot print queues.
• Monitor system performance.
• Monitor file and print servers. Tools might include Task Manager, Event Viewer, and System Monitor.

• • Monitor disk quotas.
  • Monitor print queues.
  • Monitor server hardware for bottlenecks.

• Monitor and optimize a server environment for application performance.

• • Monitor memory performance objects.
  • Monitor network performance objects.
  • Monitor process performance objects.
  • Monitor disk performance objects.

• Manage a Web server.

• • Manage Internet Information Services (IIS).
  • Manage security for IIS.

• Managing and Implementing Disaster Recovery
• Perform system recovery for a server.

• • Implement Automated System Recovery (ASR).
  • Restore data from shadow copy volumes.
  • Back up files and System State data to media.
  • Configure security for backup operations.

• Manage backup procedures.

• • Verify the successful completion of backup jobs.
  • Manage backup storage media.

• Recover from server hardware failure.
• Restore backup data.
• Schedule backup jobs.