293,PLANNING AND MAINTAINING A MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2003 NETWOR...

70-293,Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure.Oursecondary purpose in writing this book is to provide exam candidates with knowledge andskills that go beyond the minimum requirements for passing the exam, and help to preparethem to work in the real world of Microsoft computer networking in an Active Directorydomain environment.

What is Exam 70-293?

Exam 70-293 is one of the four core requirements for the Microsoft Certified SystemsEngineer (MCSE) certification. Microsoft’s stated target audience consists of IT professionalswith at least one year of work experience on a medium or large company network.Thismeans a multi-site network with at least three domain controllers, running typical networkservices such as file and print services, database, firewall services, proxy services, remote accessservices and Internet connectivity.However, not everyone who takes Exam 70-293 will have this ideal background. Manypeople will take this exam after classroom instruction or self-study as an entry into the net-working field. Many of those who do have job experience in IT will not have had theopportunity to work with all of the technologies covered by the exam. In this book, our goalis to provide background information that will help you to understand the concepts and pro-cedures described even if you don’t have the requisite experience, while keeping our focuson the exam objectives.Exam 70-293 covers the basics of managing and maintaining the network infrastructurein a network environment that is built around Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003. Objectivesare task-oriented, and include the following:

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Planning a secure baseline installation,including planning a strategy toenforce system default security settings on new systems, identifying client operatingsystem default security settings, and identifying all server operating system defaultsecurity settings.

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