Skills Being MeasuredThis
exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed
below.The percentages
indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.The
higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that
content area on the exam.
The information after “This objective
may include but is not limited to” is intended to further define or
scope the objective by describing the types of skills and topics that
may be tested for the objective. However, it is not an exhaustive list
of skills and topics that could be included on the exam for a given
skill area. You may be tested on other skills and topics related to the
objective that are not explicitly listed here.
Design and Deploy System Center (19%)
Design a scalable
System Center architecture.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Planing for capacity,
high availability, scalability, business continuity, and
disaster recovery, assess the current datacenter
environment, identify the appropriate System Center
components for the private cloud implementation
Install the System
Center Infrastructure.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Install prerequisites
required for System Center, install System Center components
Upgrade System
Center components.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: In-place upgrade,
side-by-side migration
Configure System Center Infrastructure (21%)
Configure System
Center components.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Configure Data Protection
Manager (DPM) storage pools, configure DPM site-to-site
replication, configure System Center agents, configure
System Center Management Groups, configure System Center
data retention, configure Orchestrator watcher nodes,
configure Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for System Center,
configure user roles, Run-As accounts, Run-As profiles,
configure Service Manager database
Configure portals
and dashboards.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: App Controller portal,
Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) self-service portal, Service
Manager self-service portal, VMM SSP 2.0, System Center
dashboards
Configure the Fabric (27%)
Configure the
storage fabric.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Classification and pools,
providers, arrays
Configure the
network fabric.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Virtual and logical
networks, IP/MAC resource pools, VIP templates, load
balancing
Configure the
deployment and update servers.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Windows Server Update
Services (WSUS) server, library server, Windows Deployment
Services (WDS)/PXE
Configure clouds
and virtualization hosts.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Clouds and host groups,
configure and deploy virtualization hosts
Configure System Center Integration (16%)
Configure private
cloud integration.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Configure Operations
Manager connectors, Orchestrator integration packs, Service
Manager connectors, SharePoint integration
Configure
integration of private and public clouds.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Configure host profiles,
guest operating system profiles, hardware profiles, SQL
server profiles, application profiles
Configure and Deploy Virtual Machines and Services (17%)
Configure profiles.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Configure host profiles,
guest operating system profiles, hardware profiles, SQL
server profiles, application profiles
Create and
configure server App-V packages.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Sequence an application,
configure App-V package settings, configure and deploy a
server App-V agent
Configure and
deploy a service.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Import and export
templates, configure VM templates, configure service
templates, deploy a SQL DAC package, deploy a Web deploy
package, deploy an App-V package, create and configure
pre-install and post-install scripts
Update a service.
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Applying updating to
existing VMs (in-place), deploy new VMs with updated
settings, update/replace OS, update/replace app, scale out,
update/replace SQL