MCSE 70-299 Implementing and Administering Security in a Windows Server 2003 Network Study Guide

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If the MCSE 70-299 certification exam is in your future, get ready for success by using the MCSE 70-299 study guide. This course will prepare you for the exam by delivering all the skills and knowledge you need in the implementation, management, maintenance, and troubleshooting of security in Windows Server 2003 Public Key Infrastructures.

This MCSE 70-299 courseware closely follows all of the exam objectives so that you are learning the material that Microsoft will test you on. Your focused studies will serve you well both in the exam room and on the job. You'll learn the skills, techniques, and knowledge required for success.

This course is intended mainly for system administrators and systems engineer candidates that are in a position where they implement, manage, and maintain complicated network environments for medium or large companies. This MCSE 70-299 courseware gives you everything you need including challenging review questions and hands-on activities to ensure your success.

This course will take a typical student about five days to complete. Because this is one of our self-directed computer training books, you can take as little, or as long, as you need to complete your studies. The study guide is comprised of thirteen full units organized in a logical format.

Course Objectives

By following this courseware, you will learn about the security improvements in both Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. You will also learn how to plan and configure security policies, analyze, deploy, and troubleshoot security policies, plan and launch patch management, and manage and troubleshoot software updates.

You will also learn about the planning and deployment of security for network communications, how to troubleshoot IPSec policies, and how to plan and deploy public key infrastructures

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces network security

• Security enhancements in Windows Server 2003
• Client security enhancements

Unit 2 covers how to implement security policies

• Server security
• Client security

Unit 3 discusses analyzing and deploying security policies

• Security configurations
• Custom security templates
• Deploying security templates

Unit 4 covers troubleshooting security policies

• Mixed operating system environments
• Mixed domain level environments
• Group Policy inheritance
• Security template problems
• Removing security templates

Unit 5 talks about planning and deploying patch management

• Planning service packs and hotfixes
• Service packs and hotfixes
• Microsoft Software Update Services
• Automated deployment
• Deployment processes

Unit 6 discusses managing and troubleshooting software updates

• Managing software update distributions
• Managing critical patches
• Scan errors
• Troubleshooting patch management infrastructures

Unit 7 covers planning and deploying security for network communications

• Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)
• IPSec deployment plans
• IPSec policies
• IPSec policy deployments
• IPSec certificates

Unit 8 covers troubleshooting IPSec policies

• Default IPSec Policies container permissions
• Persistent policies
• Driver startup mode
• Troubleshooting tools
• Network issues
• Certificates

Unit 9 covers planning and deploying public key infrastructure

• Certificate requirements
• PKI group structures
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Hierarchies of Certification Authority
• Configuring and deploying Certificate Authority

Unit 10 covers planning and deploying authentication for remote access users

• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
• Security for remote access users
• Client configuration for RAS

Unit 11 goes over planning and configuring security for wireless networks

• WLAN technology
• Security for wireless networks
• Wireless access policies
• Configuring wireless access points
• Wireless clients

Unit 12 covers troubleshooting access problems

• Troubleshooting PKI
• Troubleshooting Certificates
• Troubleshooting remote access
• Troubleshooting wireless

Unit 13 goes over monitoring systems

• Auditing
• Logging
• Research