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Objectives
- Ensure our students are prepared to return to their workplace with immediate measurable skills in the areas of administering, troubleshooting, optimizing, maintaining, and securing a Microsoft Windows 2003 Infrastructure.
- Ensure students are successful in passing each Microsoft Certified Professional exam required for becoming a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator on Windows 2003.
Tasks
Upon completion of this course, students will be highly proficient in the following tasks:
- Windows XP Pro and Windows Server 2003 Installation and Configuration
- Network Resource Configuration, Administration, and Management
- Manage and Administer Active Directory Objects
- Managing and Configuring Routing and Remote Access Services
- Managing and Administering Group
- Policy using Group Policy
- Management Console (GPMC)
- Monitor Security settings using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA)
- Automate security updates using Software Update Service (SUS)
- Securing Network traffic against unauthorized access
- Implementing and Managing IPSEC
- Managing a Certification Authority deployment
Course Layout
Classroom instruction is demanding, 10–14 hours daily, consisting of a combination of lectures, hands-on labs and exam preparation. Exam preparation is in the form of questions written by our staff of published authors. Nexus does not use ANY computer-based exam preparation. Our instructors do the teaching, not the exam preparation program.
ROI
The MCSA credential validates your ability to properly Maintain, Troubleshoot, Secure and Administer a Microsoft Infrastructure. The MCSA credential further validates your abilities to be able to improve security for an existing infrastructure and implement automated tasks to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Employers can reduce an organizations dependency on outside consulting services for maintaining a Microsoft infrastructure by employing a Nexus trained MCSA.
Course Prerequisites
Prior to attending this course, all students should have 1 to 2 years of Information Technology experience with 6 month to 1 year focused on Windows 2000 Pro or XP and Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003. MCSA candidates should have 6 to 12 months of experience administering client and network operating systems. The CDPC NetPrep training and the MCDST training Bootcamp provide excellent preparation for this course. Experience is a MUST for this course. If you are new to Information Technology, this course is not appropriate for you, and you should think of a more introductory course to better suit your experience level.
Certification Prerequisites
There are NO Certification Prerequisites for this course; however, the CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Network+ certifications are recommended.
What's Included
- All Meals for everyday of the course
- Unlimited Snacks and Beverages
- 4 Microsoft Exam vouchers
- On-site PROMETRIC test administration
- Windows 2003 Server Resource kit
- CDPC Courseware
- The maximum student to instructor ratio is 12:1
