Maricopa Community Colleges  MST253   20016-20025 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 04/24/01
MST253 20016-20025 L+L 3 Credit(s) 4 Period(s)
Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure
Provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and implement Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services in an enterprise environment. Prerequisites: MST152, or permission of instructor.
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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
 
MST253   20016-20025 Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure
1. Explain how Windows 2000 Directory Services works in an enterprise environment. (I)
2. Explain and demonstrate how to use network clients to access Active Directory. (I)
3. Plan and implement an Active Directory namespace for an enterprise. (II)
4. Delegate and manage administrative authority of accounts, resources, and group policies in a domain. (II)
5. Plan ways to organize objects in a domain. (II)
6. Plan and implement a directory with multiple domains. (II)
7. Manage Active Directory replication in single and multiple domain environments. (III)
8. Use sites to manage network traffic. (III)
9. Maintain and optimize Active Directory. (II)
10. Plan a Windows 2000 Directory Services deployment. (I,II)
11. Control modifications to the Active Directory schema. (III)
12. Plan directory synchronization between Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 and Active Directory. (III)
13. Plan an upgrade of directory services from the Microsoft Windows NT operating system 4.0 to Windows 2000. (III)
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MCCCD Official Course Outline:
 
MST253   20016-20025 Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure
    I. Introduction to Windows 2000 Active Directories
        A. Features
        B. Architecture
        C. Server configuration
        D. Registry entries
      II. Windows 2000 Installation
          A. Planning
          B. Installing
          C. Configuration
          D. Client configuration and planning
          E. Security
        III. Windows 2000 Configuration
            A. Performance monitoring
            B. Optimization
            C. Fault tolerance
            D. Error correction
            E. Working with other Microsoft applications
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