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MCSA 70-740: Installation, Storage, & Compute with Win Server 2016

(pearson-70-740-lab) / ISBN : 978-1-61691-891-0

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Microsoft 70-740 exam focuses primarily on installing, storing, and computing features and functionality available in Windows Server 2016. It covers general installation tasks and considerations and the installation and configuration of Nano Server, in addition to the creation and management of images for deployment. It also covers local and server storage solutions, including the configuration of disks and volumes, data deduplication, high-availability, disaster recovery, storage spaces direct, and failover clustering solutions and covers Hyper-V and containers, along with the maintenance and monitoring of servers in physical and computing environments.

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Installing, Upgrading, and Migrating

Installing Windows Server 2016 using Hyper-V
Installing Windows Server Migration Tools

Installing and Configuring Nano

Creating the Nano Server in a Virtual Machine
Managing the Nano Server Remotely Using Windows PowerShell

Working with Images

Enabling Windows Features Offline on a WIM

Disks and Volumes

Converting a basic disk into a dynamic disk
Converting disk to GPT
Creating and Mounting VHD Files Using Disk Management
Running PowerShell cmdlets Related to Disk Management
Converting Disk to GPT Using PowerShell
Configuring SMB and NFS Shares using Server Manager
Setting NTFS permissions

Server Storage

Creating an iSCSI Disk
Installing the iSNS feature
Configuring the iSNS feature
Installing a Multipath Input/Output (MPIO) Feature

Data Deduplication

Installing and Enabling Data Deduplication

Installing Hyper-V

Installing the Hyper-V Management Tools feature
Installing Hyper-V
Delegating Virtual Machine Management

Working with Virtual Machines

Creating a virtual machine
Importing a virtual machine
Exporting a Virtual Machine
Moving a Virtual Machine's Storage Using PowerShell

Advanced Virtual Machine Deployment

Creating a differencing disk
Creating a fixed-size virtual hard disk
Converting a virtual hard disk
Creating a VM with an Existing Virtual Hard Disk
Creating checkpoints
Changing a Checkpoint to a Standard Checkpoint Using PowerShell
Disabling Checkpoints

Hyper-V Networking

Changing the MAC Address for a Virtual Machine
Adding a Virtual Network Interface Card (vNIC)

Deploying Containers

Installing Docker

Managing Containers

Running Docker daemon Commands

High Availability in Hyper-V

Implementing Hyper-V Replica
Installing the Windows Migration feature using PowerShell

Failover Clustering

Installing failover cluster manager
Creating a Cluster Using the Failover Cluster Wizard
Modifying the Default Networking Configuration Using the Failover Cluster Manager
Configuring Quorum
Creating a Storage Pool
Installing a Scale-Out File Server
Creating a File Share
Creating a Virtual Disk

Managing Failover Clustering

Creating a Clustered Role
Configuring monitoring for a VM
Configuring the Node Fairness Feature

Managing VM Movement

Configuring Drain On Shutdown Using PowerShell
Disabling the VM Network health protection feature

Network Load Balancing (NLB)

Installing and Configuring NLB
Configuring NLB Operations

Maintaining Servers

Installing the Active Directory Domain Services role
Installing the Web Server IIS server role

Monitoring Servers

Monitoring workloads using Performance Monitor
Configuring a Data Collector set
Monitoring workloads using Resource Monitor

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