CompTIA Server+ Study Guide

1-4239-1455-4 © 2007 Publish date: January 18, 2006 518 pages

Study Guide + Exam Prep Software: $59.00

 

The Server+ study guide is an advanced course that is designed to prepare you for the current CompTIA Server+ certification exam. This course has been rated by ProCert with an overall rating in quality of 4.9/5.0.

By choosing the Server+ courseware, you will learn advanced-level technical skills related to server issues and technology. This includes installing, configuring, upgrading, maintaining, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery.

This CompTIA Server+ study guide is broken into ten units that cover everything you need to learn for successfully passing your exam. Expertly written, this course uses plain language to keep the material easy to read. Hands-on activities are included along with challenging review questions to make sure you are ready to move on to the next unit. You can study whenever and wherever you want with this handy, portable study guide.

CBT Planet added this course to our lineup of computer training books to bring you the high-quality content you need in the Server+ disciplines. You can use the manual as a standalone, self-directed training aid to prepare for the exam or you can use it along with your other Server+ courseware programs to enhance your learning. After passing your exam, you can refer back to the book whenever you need a little extra assistance.

Courseware Objectives

By following this courseware, you will learn about motherboard buses, clock frequency and how it affects performance, server processors, memory types, BIOS configurations, common server configuration items, optimizing the placement of servers, diagram server plans, server environments and physical site readiness, and physical server security practices.

This Server+ study guide teaches you how to prepare for server upgrades, verify the availability of system resources, and how to test the server upgrade. You will learn how to upgrade processors, memory, BIOS, power supplies, UPS, and adapters.

You'll learn the characteristics and versions of general network operating systems, NOS hardware requirements, and how to install and upgrade NOS.

You'll learn about major network operating system services, how servers run network applications, and the functions the server performs as a network device, router, and firewall.

Other topics include hardware and software used for backing up critical data, back up strategies, high server availability and redundancy, SNMP monitoring, and server management and disaster recovery strategies.

Finally, you will learn to use performance monitoring tools, establish baselines, determine acceptable and unacceptable performance thresholds, and figure out workable solutions to performance bottlenecks.

Server+ Study Guide Contents

Unit 1 covers motherboard architecture, processors, memory, and BIOS

• Motherboard architecture
• Processors
• Memory
• CMOS, BIOS, and POST

Unit 2 discusses storage

• Hard disks
• IDE interface
• SCSI interface
• SCSI configuration
• Network storage
• RAID

Unit 3 covers server planning

• Plan physical site readiness
• Disaster planning

Unit 4 discusses server power and rack installation

• Server power
• Racks
• Network cabling

Unit 5 covers server upgrades

• Prepare for server upgrades
• How to upgrade the processor and memory
• How to update the BIOS and upgrade power supplies and adapters

Unit 6 discusses configuring network operating systems

• NOS configuration concepts
• Novell NetWare
• UNIX/Linux
• Windows NT Server
• Windows 2000 and Server 2003

Unit 7 covers services and applications

• DHCP, DNS, and WINS
• Other services
• Application servers

Unit 8 goes over disaster planning

• Backup hardware
• Backup software and strategies
• Server redundancy and other disaster precautions
• Developing disaster recovery plans

Unit 9 covers performance monitoring and optimization

• How to monitor the server
• How to establish baselines
• Acceptable performance levels

Unit 10 covers troubleshooting and problem determination

• Troubleshooting
• Diagnostic tools
• Working remotely
• How to troubleshoot viruses and FRUs
• Troubleshooting tips and accessing help

Appendix A the certification exam objectives map