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Exam 70-232

Implementing and Maintaining Highly Available Web Solutions with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Technologies and Microsoft Application Center 2000

Microsoft expects Exam 70-232 to be released in its live version in November, 2001.

Microsoft Certification

When you pass this exam, you achieve Microsoft Certified Professional status. You also earn elective credit toward Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Microsoft Windows 2000 certification.

Target Audience

Candidates for this exam work in Windows 2000 Web server environments that use Application Center 2000. They have a minimum of one year’s experience administering and monitoring highly available Web environments that have the following characteristics:

• 2-100+ Web servers
• Multi-tiered deployment environments including staging, version control, and rollback
• N-tiered application architecture including a logical Web tier and business logic tier based on COM+ components
• Internet security, such as firewalls, secure protocols, and proxy servers
• Server technologies that include Internet Information Services (IIS), Network Load Balancing (NLB), Windows 2000 Performance tool, and COM+

Skills Being Measured

This certification exam measures your ability to implement, administer, and troubleshoot information systems that incorporate Microsoft Application Center 2000. Before taking the exam, you should be proficient in the job skills listed below.

Installing and Deploying Application Center 2000

Plan the deployment of Application Center 2000 in n-tier environments. Considerations include database access, COM+ components, Web environments, and staging environments.

Plan the deployment of Application Center 2000 in a load-balanced environment. Considerations include client state and application state.

Install Application Center 2000. Installation types include interactive and unattended.

Troubleshoot problems that occur during installation.

Creating, Configuring, Managing, and Troubleshooting Clusters

Create and configure Web clusters, including staging clusters.

Create and configure COM+ clusters. Considerations include Component Load Balancing (CLB), COM+ routing cluster, and COM+ application cluster.

• Configure and implement CLB within an n-tier architecture.
• Configure COM+ components for CLB.

Manage cluster members. Considerations include adding, replacing, restarting, and removing cluster members.

Troubleshoot problems that occur during cluster operations. Considerations include accounts, background services, event logging, and event exclusion.

Configuring and Troubleshooting IP Load Balancing

Configure and troubleshoot the NLB network environment. Considerations include network adapters, IP addresses, switches, hubs, and traffic segmentation.

Configure NLB operational parameters. Parameters include weight, affinity, port rules, priority, registry entries, and IP addresses for cluster networks and private networks.

Configure IIS bindings to support load balancing solutions.

Configure Active Server Pages (ASP) sessions and request forwarding to provide load balancing of stateful applications.

Configure Application Center 2000 to allow third-party load balancing solutions.

Deploying and Synchronizing N-Tier Applications

Configure Application Center 2000 to deploy COM+ components.

• Configure authentication and authorization.
• Migrate COM components to COM+ applications.
• Deploy server certificates for SSL connections.

Troubleshoot problems that occur with Application Center 2000 during application deployment and synchronization.

Create, modify, and delete Application Center 2000 applications.

• Configure and manage Application Center 2000 application images.
• Manage application resources. Resources include Web applications, files, registry settings, and COM+ components.

Configure synchronization of applications within a cluster. Considerations include components and frequency.

Deploy applications.

• Deploy content from a staging server.
• Implement a version control system by using Application Center 2000.

Monitoring and Managing Operations

Configure performance monitoring for clusters.

Create and configure data collectors and thresholds by using Health Monitor. Considerations include data groups, sync and non-sync monitors, actions, and custom actions.

Configure Application Center 2000 to automate the management of tiers and clusters.

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