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Exam 70-225 became available March 30, 2001.
Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam operate in medium to very large
computing environments that have 5,000 or more client computers
and that use Exchange 2000 Server, Active Directory™, and
Internet Information Server (IIS). They have a minimum of one
year of experience managing Microsoft Exchange environments that
have the following characteristics:
- Multiple physical locations.
- Mixed client connection protocols, such as POP3, IMAP4,
MAPI, NNTP, and HTTP mail.
- Internet messaging connectivity.
- Connectivity to foreign mail systems.
- Multiple or complex name resolution systems
Skills Being Measured
This certification exam measures your ability to implement,
administer, and troubleshoot information systems that
incorporate Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Before taking the
exam, you should be proficient in the job skills listed below.
| Analyzing Business
Requirements |
| Analyze factors that
influence organizational policy requirements. Factors
include planned mergers and acquisitions, and existing and
planned human resources. |
| Analyze the existing and
planned business models. Considerations include user
distribution, and user mail needs and habits. |
| Analyze the existing and
planned business security model. |
| Analyze the existing and
planned administrative model. |
| Analyzing Existing and
Planned Resources |
| Analyze existing server
roles. Factors include existing and anticipated server load.
Roles include mailbox server, public folder server, and
bridgehead server. |
| Analyze existing and
planned network resources. Resources include hardware,
available bandwidth, network topology, and firewall
configuration. |
| Analyze existing directory
and name resolution configurations. |
| Analyze the impact of
Exchange 2000 Server on the existing and planned network.
Considerations include requirements for local authentication
servers and local global catalog servers, delegation and
rights assignments, bandwidth, and messaging traffic. |
| Analyze the existing
messaging system architecture and potential changes to this
architecture. Considerations include potential message
routing changes, client computer access changes,
administrative model changes, and changes to messaging-based
applications. |
| Analyze existing messaging
client configurations. Considerations include hardware,
operating system, access methods, existing message store
requirements, and existing messaging client. |
| Designing an
Exchange 2000 Server Messaging Solution |
| Design an Exchange 2000
Server routing group topology. |
| Design an Exchange 2000
Server administrative model. Considerations include
organizational unit (OU) structure, policies, administrative
group placement and boundaries, permissions, and multiple
stores. |
| Design an Exchange 2000
Server real-time collaboration solution that uses Chat
Service, Instant Messaging, or both. |
| Plan public folder usage
and implementation. Considerations include company
structure, geographical structure, maintenance policies,
permissions, replication, and indexing. |
Design an Exchange 2000
Server security plan.
- Help Protect the Exchange 2000 Server infrastructure
against external attacks.
- Help Protect the Exchange 2000 Server infrastructure
against internal attacks.
- Design an authentication and encryption strategy.
Considerations include user authentication and encryption
requirements, such as S/MIME, KMS, IPSec, NTLM, Digest
authentication, and SSL.
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Plan for coexistence of
Exchange 2000 Server with other messaging systems.
- Plan for coexistence with foreign mail systems, such
as Notes, cc:Mail, GroupWise, MS Mail, PROFS, TAO, and
SNADS.
- Plan for coexistence with Exchange Server 5.5.
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| Design inter-organizational
connectivity and synchronization. Considerations include
existing Active Directory environment, existing DNS
configuration, Active Directory Connector (ADC)
configuration, security permissions, and administrative
permissions and delegation. |
| Designate and design
servers. Server configurations include front end, back end,
connector, client computer access, Chat Service, Instant
Messaging, free/busy, virtual vs. physical, mailbox, public
folder, and multiple protocol. |
| Plan traffic flow.
Considerations include ADC computer and bridgeheads, routing
group boundaries, bandwidth, directory replication, public
folder replication, existing network connection, and Site
Replication Service (SRS). |
| Design server hardware and
disk configurations to achieve fault tolerance and increased
performance and to provide for a backup strategy, based on
server role. |
Design an upgrade or
migration strategy. Considerations include primary vs.
non-primary connections, and use of the appropriate version
of ADC.
- Design ADC connection agreements.
- Plan a migration that uses ADMT.
- Design connection agreements to support container
synchronization.
- Decide direction of synchronization.
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| Design a strategy for mail
access. Messaging clients include MAPI, IMAP4, POP3, and
HTTP mail. |
| Designing for Fault
Tolerance and Data Recovery |
| Design a backup solution.
Considerations include planning backup scope, defining the
backup schedule, media storage and rotation, and backup
type. |
| Design a recovery solution.
Considerations include recovering the entire messaging
system, individual databases, and servers; re-associating
user mailboxes with accounts; and designing mailbox stores
to support recovery. |
| Design fault tolerance
solutions. |
| Deploying an
Exchange 2000 Server Messaging Solution |
| Deploy routing groups and
foreign connectors. |
| Deploy administrative
groups. |
| Plan deployments of
messaging clients, such as MAPI, IMAP4, POP3, and HTTP mail.
Considerations include policies and profiles, and server
scaling. |
| Deploy an Exchange 2000
Server messaging solution in a cluster. |
Diagnose and resolve
coexistence problems.
- Resolve e-mail delivery problems.
- Resolve problems with foreign connections.
- Resolve address synchronization problems.
- Resolve problems with address and name resolution.
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Diagnose and resolve other
deployment problems.
- Resolve failed deployments that require a rollback to
Exchange Server 5.5.
- Use ADClean to resolve duplicate account problems.
- Resolve permissions problems.
- Resolve problems with sending and receiving e-mail.
- Resolve security problems.
- Resolve DNS name resolution problems.
- Resolve problems involving resource limitations.
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