The following is a list of Microsoft Exam 70-647 objectives and the skills being measured...
Note: The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. (Therefore if the exam has a total of 55 questions then a major section with 16% may have 9 questions)
Planning network and application services (23 percent)
* Plan for name resolution and IP addressing.
May include but is not limited to: internal and external naming strategy, naming resolution support for legacy clients, naming resolution for directory services, IP addressing scheme, TCP/IP version coexistence
* Design for network access.
May include but is not limited to: network access policies, remote access strategy, perimeter networks, server and domain isolation
* Plan for application delivery.
May include but is not limited to: application virtualization, presentation virtualization, locally installed software, Web-based applications
* Plan for Terminal Services.
May include but is not limited to: Terminal Services licensing, Terminal Services infrastructure
Designing core identity and access management components (25 percent)
* Design Active Directory forests and domains.
May include but is not limited to: forest structure, forest and domain functional levels, intra-organizational authorization and authentication, schema modifications
* Design the Active Directory physical topology.
May include but is not limited to: placement of servers, site and replication topology, printer location policies
* Design the Active Directory administrative model.
May include but is not limited to: delegation, group strategy, compliance auditing, group administration, organizational structure
* Design the enterprise-level group policy strategy.
May include but is not limited to: group policy hierarchy and scope filtering, control device installation, authentication and authorization
Designing support identity and access management components (29 percent)
* Plan for domain or forest migration, upgrade, and restructuring.
May include but is not limited to: cross-forest authentication, backward compatibility, object migration, migration planning, implementation planning, environment preparation
* Design the branch office deployment.
May include but is not limited to: authentication strategy, server security
* Design and implement public key infrastructure.
May include but is not limited to: certificate services, PKI operations and maintenance, certificate life cycle management
* Plan for interoperability.
May include but is not limited to: inter-organizational authorization and authentication, application authentication interoperability, cross-platform interoperability
Designing for business continuity and data availability (23 percent)
* Plan for business continuity.
May include but is not limited to: service availability, directory service recovery
* Design for software updates and compliance management.
May include but is not limited to: patch management and patch management compliance, Microsoft Update and Windows Update, security baselines, system health models
* Design the operating system virtualization strategy.
May include but is not limited to: server consolidation, application compatibility, virtualization management, placement of servers
* Design for data management and data access.
May include but is not limited to: data security, data accessibility and redundancy, data collaboration