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When you earn a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification, you validate your deep technical knowledge and skill using the features and functionality of key technology areas in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Administrator (MCITP: Database Administrator) is the premier certification for database server administrators. This certification demonstrates that you can keep up with your enterprise business solutions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Exam 70-432

Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance

Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2008

Maintaining SQL Server Instances

Managing SQL Server Security

Maintaining a SQL Server Database

Performing Data Management Tasks

Monitoring and Troubleshooting SQL Server

Optimizing SQL Server Performance

Implementing High Availability

Exam 70-450

Designing, Optimizing, and Maintaining a Database Administrative Solution Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Designing a SQL Server Instance and a Database Solution

Design for CPU, memory, and storage capacity requirements.
This objective may include but is not limited to: RAID, calculating table size, IO throughput, transaction per second, data compression, non-uniform memory access (NUMA), tempdb capacity

Design SQL Server instances.
This objective may include but is not limited to: instance configuration, surface area configuration, CPU affinity, memory allocation, max degree of parallelism (MAXDOP), collation

Design physical database and object placement.
This objective may include but is not limited to: heap and index placement, filestream, data and log files, filegroups, partition placement, large object placement, full text catalog

Design a migration, consolidation, and upgrade strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: multi-instance considerations, SQL Server version upgrade, instance and database collation, server-level and instance-level objects, service pack application

Designing a Database Server Security Solution

Design instance authentication.
This objective may include but is not limited to: choosing authentication type, logon triggers, regulatory requirements

Design instance-level security configurations.
This objective may include but is not limited to: Windows service accounts, filestream, proxy, credentials, instance-level permissions, certificate and key management, endpoint security, using SSL certificates, TCP ports

Design database, schema, and object security parameters.
This objective may include but is not limited to: users, roles, certificate and key management, Service broker, Common Language Runtime (CLR), ownership chains

Design a security policy and an audit plan.
This objective may include but is not limited to: Policy-Based Management Framework, security functions, sp_helprotect, catalog views, extended events, notifications

Design an encryption strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: Transparent Data Encryption, encrypting protected data, certificate and key management, filestream

Designing a Database Solution for High Availability

Design a failover clustering solution.
This objective may include but is not limited to: cluster resource group, cluster setup considerations, number of nodes, service accounts

Design database mirroring.
This objective may include but is not limited to: whether to use a witness server, Windows Server considerations, suspend vs. stop, automatic or manual failover, automatic page repair, database snapshots for reporting, managing instance-level objects

Design a high-availability solution that is based on replication.
This objective may include but is not limited to: different replication types, topologies, recover from replication failure, synchronization, health monitoring

Design a high-availability solution that is based on log shipping.
This objective may include but is not limited to: manage instance-level objects, changing roles, reporting secondary instance for reporting, monitor server, reinitializing, consistency check on secondary instance

Select high-availability technologies based on business requirements.
This objective may include but is not limited to: failover clustering, database mirroring, log shipping, replication

Designing a Backup and Recovery Solution

Design a backup strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: recovery model, compression, choosing backup types, scheduling, backup media, file and filegroups backup, verifying backups, key management, mirrored backups, cluster considerations

Design a recovery strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: page, file, filegroup, partial and online restores, orphan users, instance rebuild, encryption considerations, handling media failures, transaction logs, point in time and mark recovery, filestreams

Design a recovery test plan.
This objective may include but is not limited to: log shipping, replication, hardware considerations, scheduling a database restore test, handling high availability failures

Designing a Monitoring Strategy

Design a monitoring solution at the operating system level.
This objective may include but is not limited to: system monitor counters, event logs, dynamic management views and functions, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), remote monitoring, analyze results

Design a monitoring solution at the instance level.
This objective may include but is not limited to: instance, database and object monitoring, data collection, event notifications, dynamic management objects, analyze results

Design a solution to monitor performance and concurrency.
This objective may include but is not limited to: Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC), locking, blocking, deadlocks, dynamic management objects, index utilization, tracing, analyze

Designing a Strategy to Maintain and Manage Databases

Design a maintenance strategy for database servers.
This objective may include but is not limited to: rebuild for page-level compression, index and heap maintenance, partition management, statistics

Design a solution to govern resources.
This objective may include but is not limited to: Resource Governor (CPU, memory, number of requests per second; resource pools, resource groups), query governor

Design policies by using Policy-Based Management.
This objective may include but is not limited to: designing policies and conditions

Design a data compression strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: row vs. page level, update frequency, compression ratio, compressing partitions, specific indexes

Design a management automation strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: SQL Server PowerShell, WMI, SQL Server Agent, event notifications, DDL triggers

Designing a Strategy for Data Distribution

Administer SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages.
This objective may include but is not limited to: design security for accessing packages, troubleshoot and restart package, schedule package execution, deploy packages to same or different instances

Design a strategy to use linked servers.
This objective may include but is not limited to: security, providers, distributed transactions

Design a replication strategy for data distribution.
This objective may include but is not limited to: selecting replication types, conflict resolution, health monitoring, horizontal and vertical partitioning

Exam 70-433

Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development

Implementing Tables and Views

Create and alter tables.
This objective may include but is not limited to: computed and persisted columns; schemas; scripts to deploy changes to multiple environments, for example, dev, test, production; manage permissions (GRANT, DENY, REVOKE)

Create and alter views.
This objective may include but is not limited to: WITH ENCRYPTION; WITH SCHEMABINDING; WITH CHECK OPTION; manage permissions (GRANT, DENY, REVOKE)

Create and alter indexes.
This objective may include but is not limited to: filtered, included columns, unique, clustered, non-clustered, FILL FACTOR; CREATE STATISTICS; indexing views

Create and modify constraints.
This objective may include but is not limited to: PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, UNIQUE, CHECK, cascading referential integrity, enabling/disabling, NOCHECK; SET IDENTITY_INSERT

Implement data types.
This objective may include but is not limited to: FILESTREAM; spatial, structured, and semi-structured; collations

Implement partitioning solutions.
This objective may include but is not limited to: partitioned tables and indexes (constraints, partition functions, partition schemes, MERGE, SPLIT, SWITCH); distributed partitioned views (constraints, linked servers)

Implementing Programming Objects

Create and alter stored procedures.
This objective may include but is not limited to: table-valued parameters (TVPs), EXECUTE AS, RECOMPILE, parameter direction (output); WITH ENCRYPTION; manage permissions (GRANT, DENY, REVOKE)

Create and alter user-defined functions (UDFs).
This objective may include but is not limited to: WITH SCHEMABINDING, EXECUTE AS; manage permissions (GRANT, DENY, REVOKE)

Create and alter DML triggers.
This objective may include but is not limited to: INSERTED, DELETED, INSTEAD OF, EXECUTE AS

Create and alter DDL triggers.
This objective may include but is not limited to: enabling/disabling; return event data

Create and deploy CLR-based objects.
This objective may include but is not limited to: permission sets (SAFE, UNSAFE, EXTERNAL_ACCESS), SET TRUSTWORTHY

Implement error handling.
This objective may include but is not limited to: TRY/CATCH, RAISERROR, retrieving error information, custom error messages, @@ERROR

Manage transactions.
This objective may include but is not limited to: BEGIN TRANSACTION, COMMIT, ROLLBACK, SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL

Working with Query Fundamentals

Query data by using SELECT statements.
This objective may include but is not limited to: LIKE, WHERE, ORDER BY, INTO

Modify data by using INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.
This objective may include but is not limited to: row constructors, DELETE FROM FROM, UPDATE FROM, TRUNCATE TABLE

Return data by using the OUTPUT clause.
This objective may include but is not limited to: INSERTED, DELETED, INTO

Modify data by using MERGE statements.
This objective may include but is not limited to: INSERTED, DELETED, OUTPUT

Implement aggregate queries.
This objective may include but is not limited to: built-in aggregate functions, GROUPING SETS, GROUP BY, HAVING

Combine datasets.
This objective may include but is not limited to: CROSS APPLY, OUTER APPLY, all join types; UNION, UNION ALL, INTERSECT, EXCEPT

Apply built-in scalar functions.
This objective may include but is not limited to: CAST and CONVERT; REPLACE; LEN and DATALENGTH; PATINDEX and CHARINDEX

Applying Additional Query Techniques

Implement subqueries.
This objective may include but is not limited to: simple, correlated, scalar, list, table valued

Implement CTE (common table expression) queries.
This objective may include but is not limited to: recursive, non-recursive

Apply ranking functions.
This objective may include but is not limited to: RANK, PARTITION BY, DENSE_RANK, OVER, ROW_NUMBER, NTILE

Control execution plans.
This objective may include but is not limited to: table hints, query hints

Manage international considerations.
This objective may include but is not limited to: collations, defining custom errors, filtering data, sort order, nvarchar, database collation, column collation

Working with Additional SQL Server Components

Implement full-text search.
This objective may include but is not limited to: CONTAINS, CONTAINSTABLE, FREETEXT, FREETEXTTABLE, STOPLIST

Implement scripts by using Windows PowerShell and SQL Server Management Objects (SMOs).
This objective may include but is not limited to: cmdlets

Implement Service Broker solutions.
This objective may include but is not limited to: services, queues, messages, message types, message validation, contracts, activation procedures

Track data changes.
This objective may include but is not limited to: change tracking; database audit specification; CHANGETABLE

Working with XML Data

Retrieve relational data as XML.
This objective may include but is not limited to: FOR XML

Transform XML data into relational data.
This objective may include but is not limited to: OPENXML, sp_xml_preparedocument, sp_xml_removedocument

Manage XML data.
This objective may include but is not limited to: XML datatype, XML indexes, XML schema collections

Gathering Performance Information

Capture execution plans.
This objective may include but is not limited to: graphical execution plans; SHOWPLAN

Collect output from the Database Engine Tuning Advisor.
This objective may include but is not limited to: prepare a workload

Collect information from system metadata.
This objective may include but is not limited to: Dynamic Management Views (DMVs), catalog views

Exam 70-451

Designing Database Solutions and Data Access Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Designing a Database Strategy

Identify which SQL Server components to use to support business requirements.
This objective may include but is not limited to: SQL Server Agent, DB mail, Service Broker, Full-Text Search, Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC), linked servers

Design a database model.
This objective may include but is not limited to: normalization, entities, entity relationships

Design a data model by using the Entity Framework.
This objective may include but is not limited to: defining and maintaining mapping (query vs. stored proc), defining a data model, entity SQL

Design an application strategy to support security.
This objective may include but is not limited to: application roles, schema ownership, execution context, Windows vs. SQL authentication, permissions and database roles

Design a solution by using Service Broker.
This objective may include but is not limited to: designing services, contracts, activation, routes, message types, queues, remote service binding, priorities

Design a Full-Text Search strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: CONTAINS, CONTAINSTABLE, FREETEXT, FREETEXTTABLE

Designing Database Tables

Identify the appropriate usage of new data types.
This objective may include but is not limited to: geography, geometry, hierarchyid, date, time, datetime2, datetimeoffset, varbinary (max) filestream

Design tables.
This objective may include but is not limited to: table width, sizing data types, IN_ROW_DATA (BLOBs), overflow data, sparse columns, computed columns, persisted computed columns

Design data integrity.
This objective may include but is not limited to: primary key, foreign key, check constraint, default constraint, NULL/NOT NULL, unique constraint, DML triggers

Designing Programming Objects

Design T-SQL stored procedures.
This objective may include but is not limited to: execution context (EXECUTE AS), table-valued parameters, determining appropriate way to return data, WITH RECOMPILE/OPTION (RECOMPILE), error handling, TRY/CATCH

Design views.
This objective may include but is not limited to: common table expressions, partitioned views, WITH CHECK OPTION, WITH SCHEMABINDING

Design T-SQL table-valued and scalar functions.
This objective may include but is not limited to: inline table-valued functions vs. views, multi-statement table-valued functions, determinism

Design Common Language Runtime (CLR) table-valued and scalar functions.
This objective may include but is not limited to: assembly PERMISSION_SET, CLR vs. T-SQL, ordered vs. non-ordered

Design CLR stored procedures, aggregates, and types.
This objective may include but is not limited to: assembly PERMISSION_SET, CLR vs. T-SQL, ordered vs. non-ordered, executing static methods on user-defined types, multi-parameter aggregations

Evaluate special programming constructs.
This objective may include but is not limited to: dynamic vs. prepared SQL (CREATE PROCEDURE... WITH EXECUTE AS) procedure, protecting against SQL injection

Designing a Transaction and Concurrency Strategy

Design the locking granularity level.
This objective may include but is not limited to: locking hints, memory consumption

Design for implicit and explicit transactions.
This objective may include but is not limited to: nested transactions, savepoints, TRY/CATCH

Design for concurrency.
This objective may include but is not limited to: hints, transaction isolation level, effect of database option READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT, rowversion and timestamp datatypes

Designing an XML Strategy

Design XML storage.
This objective may include but is not limited to: determining when to use XML for storage, untyped vs. typed (XML schema collection)

Design a strategy to query and modify XML data.
This objective may include but is not limited to: when to use appropriate XPath and XQuery expressions, .query vs. .value, XML indexes for performance, typed vs. untyped, .exist, .modify

Design a query strategy by using FOR XML.
This objective may include but is not limited to: views, FOR XML PATH and EXPLICIT, FOR XML... TYPE

Design a strategy to transform XML into relational data.
This objective may include but is not limited to: .nodes, .value, .query, XQuery and XPath

Designing Queries for Performance

Optimize and tune queries.
This objective may include but is not limited to: optimizer hints, common table expressions (CTEs), search conditions, temporary storage, GROUP BY [GROUPING SETS|CUBE|ROLLUP]

Analyze execution plans.
This objective may include but is not limited to: execution order, logical and physical operators, join operators, minimize resource costs, compare query costs

Evaluate the use of row-based operations vs. set-based operations.
This objective may include but is not limited to: row-based logic vs. set-based logic, batching, splitting implicit transactions

Designing a Database for Optimal Performance

Optimize indexing strategies.
This objective may include but is not limited to: table-valued function, views, filtered indexes, indexed views, clustered and non-clustered, unique

Design scalable database solutions.
This objective may include but is not limited to: scale up vs. scale out, federated databases, distributed partitioned views, scalable shared databases, replication, offloading read-only query (database mirroring)

Resolve performance problems by using plan guides.
This objective may include but is not limited to: object plan guides, SQL plan guides, templates plan guides, dynamic management views

Design a table and index compression strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: row vs. page, update frequency, page compression implementation, compressing individual partitions

Design a table and index partitioning strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: switching partitions, merging, splitting, staging, creating, schemes and functions

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