Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)

MCSE: Server Infrastructure

Solutions Expert

The globally recognized standard for IT professionals

The Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Server Infrastructure certification validates that you have the skills needed to run a highly efficient and modern data center, with expertise in identity management, systems management, virtualization, storage, and networking.

Earning an MCSE: Server Infrastructure certification will qualify you for such jobs as computer support specialist and information security analyst.

After successfully completing steps 1 -3, you’ll earn a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Windows Server 2012 certification.

Certification consists of two courses:

1. Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure
2. Implementing an Advanced Server Infrastructure

Course: Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure

 About this course

Get hands-on instruction and practice planning, designing and deploying a physical and logical Windows Server® 2012 R2 enterprise infrastructure in this 5-day Microsoft Official course. This course is part one in a series of two courses that provides the skills and knowledge necessary to design and implement a Windows Server 2012 R2 infrastructure in an enterprise environment. The two courses collectively cover designing, planning, deploying, securing, monitoring, automating, and virtualizing an enterprise server infrastructure. This course covers the knowledge and skills needed to provide an enterprise solution that supports manual and automated server installations in a physical and virtual environment including the supporting file and storage services. You will also learn the skills necessary to provide enterprise networking solutions such as DHCP, IPAM, VPN, and DirectAccess. You will also learn the skills necessary to design and implement a forest and domain infrastructure including multi domains/forest and branch office scenarios. This course maps directly to and is the preferred choice for hands-on preparation for Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Exam 413: Designing and Implementing and Server Infrastructure, which is the fourth of five exams required for MCSE: Server Infrastructure certification.

NOTE: Labs in this course are based on Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. This course is designed for experienced IT professionals who support medium to large enterprises and have experience administering Windows Server 2012 R2 and have an MCSA: Windows Server 2012 certification or equivalent skills.

Audience profile

This course is intended for IT professionals who are responsible for planning, designing, and deploying a physical and a logical Windows Server 2012 enterprise Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) infrastructure including the network services necessary. They have experience of previous Windows Server operating systems and possess Windows Server 2012 certification Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) or equivalent skills. The course is also intended for IT professionals who are looking to take the exam 70-413: Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure, as a stand-alone, or as part of the requirement for the Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Server Infrastructure Certification.

At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Plan server upgrade and migration.
• Plan and implement a server deployment strategy.
• Plan and deploy servers by using System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
• Design and maintain an IP configuration and address management solution.
• Design and implement name resolution.
• Design and implement an AD DS forest and domain infrastructure.
• Design and implement an AD DS organizational unit (OU) infrastructure.
• Design and implement a Group Policy Object (GPO) strategy.
• Design and implement an AD DS physical topology.
• Plan and implement storage and file services.
• Design and implement network protection.
• Design and implement remote access services.

Course: Implementing an Advanced Server Infrastructure

About this course

Get hands-on instruction and practice planning, designing and deploying a physical and logical Windows Server® 2012 R2 enterprise infrastructure in this 5-day Microsoft Official course. This course is part two in a series of two courses that provides the skills and knowledge necessary to design and implement a Windows Server 2012 R2 infrastructure in an enterprise environment. The two courses collectively cover designing, planning, deploying, securing, monitoring, automating, and virtualizing an enterprise server infrastructure. This course covers the knowledge and skills to plan and implement a highly available, secure infrastructure with focus on Active Directory®  Federation Service (AD FS), public key infrastructure (PKI), and Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS). You will also learn the skills needed to plan and deploy virtual machines including self-service and automation of virtual machine deployments as well as planning and implementing a monitoring strategy that includes Microsoft® System Center 2012 R2-Operations Manager. This course maps directly to and is the preferred choice for hands-on preparation for Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Exam 414: Implementing an Advanced Server Infrastructure, which is the fifth of five exams required for MCSE: Server Infrastructure certification. NOTE: Labs in this course are based on Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. This course is designed for experienced IT professionals who support medium to large enterprises and have experience administering Windows Server 2012 R2 and have an MCSA: Windows Server 2012 certification or equivalent skills.

 Audience profile

This course is intended for Information Technology (IT) professionals who are responsible for planning, designing and deploying a physical and logical Windows Server 2012 enterprise and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) infrastructures including the network services. Candidates would typically have experience of previous Windows Server operating systems and have Windows Server 2012 certification (MCSA) or equivalent skills.

The secondary audience for this course will be candidates are IT professionals who are looking to take the exam 70-414: Implementing an Advanced Enterprise Server Infrastructure, as a stand-alone, or as part of the requirement for the MCSE certification.

 At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe an enterprise data center.
• Plan and implement a server virtualization strategy using System Center 2012.
• Plan and implement the network and storage infrastructure required to deploy a virtualized server infrastructure.
• Plan and deploy virtual machines on Windows Hyper-V®.
• Plan and implement a virtualization administration solution by using System Center 2012.
• Plan and implement a server monitoring strategy using the Windows Server 2012 tools and using Microsoft System Center 2012 – Operations Manager.
• Plan and implement an application and a file services infrastructure that is highly available.
• Plan and implement a highly available server infrastructure by using the failover clustering features in Windows Server 2012.
• Plan and implement a business continuity strategy in a Windows Server 2012 environment.
• Plan and implement a PKI deployment, and plan and implement a certificate management solution.
• Plan and implement an AD FS server deployment and claims aware application access.
• Plan and implement Dynamic Access Control, Workplace Join and Work Folders. 
• Plan and implement an AD RMS deployment, plan and manage AD RMS templates and access, and plan and implement external access to AD RMS services.