MCSA Certification (Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate)

MCSA Certification has thankfully launched a series of Technologies that would help one to manage and administrate a system. MCSA is the certification given to validate expertise knowledge in various Microsoft Technologies which includes managing of servers, SQL, Database Administration, web applications, networking and Windows itself. Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate is a basic level certification for beginners. SMEClabs will carefully guide you from basics to implementation and qualify you to be MCSA certified.

MCSA Certification Syllabus:

• Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads
• Configuring local storage
• Implementing enterprise storage solutions
• Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication
• Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines
• Deploying and managing Windows and Hyper-V containers
• Overview of high availability and disaster recovery
• Implementing failover clustering
• Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
• Implementing Network Load Balancing
• Creating and managing deployment images
• Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations
• Planning and implementing an IPv4 network
• Securing Active Directory Domain Services
• Deploying and managing AD CS
• Deploying and managing certificates
• Implementing and administering AD RMS
• Implementing AD DS synchronization with Microsoft Azure AD
• Implementing DHCP
• Implementing IPv6
• Implementing DNS
• Implementing and managing IPAM
• Remote access in Windows Server 2016
• Implementing Direct Access
• Implementing VPNs
• Implementing networking for branch offices
• Configuring advanced networking features
• Installing and configuring domain controllers
• Implementing Software Defined Networking
• Managing objects in AD DS
• Monitoring, Managing, and recovering AD DS
• Advanced AD DS infrastructure management
• Implementing and administering AD DS sites and replication
• Implementing Group Policy
• Managing user settings with Group Policy

MCSA Certification Objective:

• Understand the pre requirements for installing various Windows operating systems
• Install Windows 7, Windows server 2003 and Windows server 2008 Operating systems
• Understand the features of Windows server 2003 and Windows server 2008
• Compare various Client and Server Operating systems
• Administer local Users and Groups
• Installing & Configuring roles in Windows Server 2008 (DHCP,DNS,ADDS,WDS & Hyper-V)
• Administer Domain Users and Groups
• Understand the start up process for various Windows operating systems
• Optimize the systems for peak performances
• Install and Configure Server Core operating system
• Migrate between various Windows operating systems
• Install and Configure various Windows backup features