Tuesday, 12 May 2015

70-331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

Exam 70-331
Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

Published: 01 February 2013
Languages: English, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil)
Audiences: IT professionals
Technology: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
Credit towards certification: MCP, MCSE

Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area in the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area in the exam.

Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.

Design a SharePoint topology (20–25%)
Design information architecture

Design an inter-site navigational taxonomy; design site columns and content types; design keywords, synonyms, best bets and managed properties; plan information management policies; plan managed site structures; plan term sets

Design a logical architecture

Plan application pools; plan web applications; plan for software boundaries; plan content databases; plan host-header site collections; plan zones and alternate access mapping

Design a physical architecture

Design a storage architecture; configure basic request management; define individual server requirements; define service topologies; plan server load balancing; plan a network infrastructure

Plan a SharePoint Online (Microsoft Office 365) deployment

Evaluate service offerings; plan service applications; plan site collections; plan customisations and solutions; plan security for SharePoint Online; plan networking services for SharePoint Online

Preparation resources

Architecture design for SharePoint 2013 IT pros

SharePoint online planning guide for Office 365 enterprise and midsize

Plan security (20–25%)

Plan and configure authentication
Plan and configure Windows authentication; plan and configure identity federation; configure claims providers; configure site-to-site (S2S) intra-server and OAuth authentication; plan and configure anonymous authentication; configure connections to Access Control Service

Plan and configure authorisation
Plan and configure SharePoint users and groups; plan and configure People Picker; plan and configure sharing; plan and configure permission inheritance; plan and configure anonymous access; plan web application policies

Plan and configure platform security

Plan and configure security isolation; plan and configure services lockdown; plan and configure general firewall security; plan and configure antivirus settings; plan and configure certificate management

Plan and configure farm-level security
Plan rights management; plan and configure delegated farm administration; plan and configure delegated service application administration; plan and configure managed accounts; plan and configure blocked file types; plan and configure web part security

Preparation resources
SharePoint security: The fundamentals of securing SharePoint deployments
Security planning for SharePoint 2013 farms
Plan authentication in SharePoint 2013

Install and configure SharePoint farms (20–25%)

Plan installation

Identify and configure installation prerequisites; implement scripted deployment; implement patch slipstreaming; plan and install language packs; plan and configure service connection points; plan installation tracking and auditing

Plan and configure farm-wide settings

Configure incoming and outgoing email; plan and configure proxy groups; configure SharePoint Designer settings; plan and configure a corporate catalogue; configure Office Web Apps integration; configure Microsoft Azure workflow server integration

Create and configure enterprise search

Plan and configure a search topology; plan and configure content sources; plan and configure crawl schedules; plan and configure crawl rules; plan and configure crawl performance; plan and configure security trimming

Create and configure a Managed Metadata Service (MMS) application

Configure proxy settings for managed service applications; configure content type hub settings; configure sharing term sets; plan and configure content type propagation schedules; configure custom properties; configure term store permissions

Create and configure a User Profile Service (UPA) application

Configure a UPA application; set up My Sites and My Site hosts; configure social permissions; plan and configure sync connections; configure profile properties, configure audiences

Preparation resources
Plan for SharePoint 2013
Install and configure Microsoft SharePoint 2013
Install and configure SharePoint 2013

Create and configure web applications and site collections (15–20%)
Provision and configure web applications

Create managed paths; configure HTTP throttling; configure List throttling; configure Alternate Access Mappings (AAM); configure an authentication provider; configure SharePoint Designer settings

Create and maintain site collections

Configure Host header site collections; configure self-service site creation; maintain site owners; maintain site quotas; configure site policies; configure a team mailbox

Manage site and site collection security

Manage site access requests; manage App permissions; manage anonymous access; manage permission inheritance; configure permission levels; configure HTML field security

Manage search

Manage result sources; manage query rules; manage display templates; manage Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) settings; manage result types; manage a search schema

Manage taxonomy

Manage site collection term set access; manage term set navigation; manage topic catalogue pages; configure custom properties; configure search refinement; configure list refinement

Preparation resources
Create a web application in SharePoint 2013
Manage site collections in SharePoint 2013
Managed metadata and navigation in SharePoint 2013

Maintain a core SharePoint environment (20–25%)
Monitor a SharePoint environment

Define monitoring requirements; configure performance counter capture; configure page performance monitoring; configure usage and health providers; monitor and forecast storage needs

Tune and optimise a SharePoint environment

Plan and configure SQL optimisation; execute database maintenance rules; plan for capacity software boundaries; estimate storage requirements; plan and configure caching; tune network performance

Troubleshoot a SharePoint environment

Establish baseline performance; perform client-side tracing; perform server-side tracing; analyse usage data; enable a developer dashboard; analyse diagnostic logs

Preparation resources
Monitoring and maintaining SharePoint Server 2013
Optimise performance for SharePoint Server 2013
Troubleshooting SharePoint 2013



QUESTION 1
You create a User Profile Synchronization connection. You need to grant the necessary
permissions to the synchronization account. What should you do?

A. Grant the account Full Control on the ActiveUsers OU.
B. Grant the account Full Control on the AuthenticatedUsers AD security group.
C. Grant the account Read permission on the domain.
D. Grant the account the Replicate Directory Changes permission on the domain.
Correct
Answer: D


QUESTION 2
You need to ensure that content authors can publish the specified files. What should you do?

A. Create multiple authoring site collections. Create a site that contains lists, document libraries,
and a Pages library. Create an asset library in a new site collection, and enable anonymous
access to the library on the publishing web application.
B. Create multiple authoring site collections. Create a site that contains lists, document libraries,
and a Pages library. Create an asset library in the authoring site collection, and enable
anonymous access to the library on the authoring web application.
C. Create one authoring site collection. Create a site that contains multiple lists, document
libraries, and Pages libraries. Create an asset library in a new site collection, and enable
anonymous access to the library on the publishing web application.
D. Create multiple authoring site collections. Create a site that contains multiple lists, document
libraries, and Pages libraries. Create an asset library in a new site collection, and enable
anonymous access to the library on the publishing web application.
Correct
Answer: B


QUESTION 3
HOTSPOT
You need to ensure that user-selected subscription content automatically appear on users' My
Sites. Which configuration option should you choose? (To answer, select the appropriate option
in the answer area.)
Hot Area:



Correct Answer:





QUESTION 4
You need to import employee photos into SharePoint user profiles by using the least amount of
administrative effort. Which three actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents
part of the solution. Choose three.)

A. Define a mapping for the thumbnailPhoto attribute of the Picture user profile property.
B. Run the Update-SPUserSolution Windows PowerShell cmdlet.
C. Run an incremental synchronization of the User Profile Synchronization service.
D. Run a full synchronization of the User Profile Synchronization service.
E. Run the Update-SPProfilePhotoStore Windows PowerShell cmdlet.
F. Define a mapping for the photo attribute of the Picture user profile property.
Correct
Answer: ADE


QUESTION 5
DRAG DROP
You need to install the appropriate versions of Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and
Microsoft .NET Framework in the server environment. Which operating system and applications
should you install? (To answer, drag the appropriate operating systems and applications to the
correct server layers in the answer area. Each operating system or application may be used once,
more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view
content.)
Select and Place:



Correct Answer:





QUESTION 6
You copy the content of the SharePoint installation media and software updates to your hard
drive. You need to meet the setup requirements for future SharePoint server installations. What
should you do?

A. Extract the content of each file to the Updates folder by running the /extract:<path>
command.
B. Upgrade the installation media by running the /lang:<lcid> command.
C. Extract the content of each file to the Setup folder by running the /extract:<path> command.
D. Extract the content of each file to the PrerequisiteInstallerFiles folder by running the /
extract:<path> command.

Correct  Answer: A

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Exam 70-158

Exam 70-158
Microsoft Forefront Identity & Access Management, Configuring


Published: 20 November 2011
Languages: English
Audiences: IT professionals
Technology: Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager
Credit towards certification: MCTS

Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area in the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area in the exam.

Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.

Plan and design FIM topology

Plan and design FIM topology

Identify single point of failure, match topology to performance requirements, capacity planning, design highly available implementations for FIM Service and Portal

Install the FIM Service and the FIM Portal

Microsoft SharePoint web configuration, service account permissions, prerequisites, certificates, groups

Upgrade Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS)/Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) to FIM 2010

Plan for upgrade, recompile extensions, upgrade SQL databases, upgrade third-party clients

Upgrade Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS)/Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) to FIM 2010

Plan for upgrade, recompile extensions, upgrade SQL databases, upgrade third-party clients

Deploy and manage client components

Automated installs, client images, multi-language support installation, plan for configuration of Microsoft Outlook for group management (Outlook plug-in for approvals and group management), use Group Policy objects (GPOs) to manage FIM client components, registry settings on client machines

Implement disaster recovery for FIM 2010

Back up and restore, FIM Service, FIM Portal, Sync Service, initial load scenarios; key backup and recovery

Preparation resources

Planning for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2
Installation guide
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 deployment guide

Plan and configure core portal functionality (19%)

Plan and configure user and group provisioning

Provision to Active Directory, deprovision, data-driven provisioning and deprovisioning, configure Management Policy Rules (MPR)/workflow/sync rule triples required for provisioning in the portal, expected rule entries, detected rule entries, workflow parameters

Plan and configure group management

Configure dynamic groups (query-based) in the portal, owner-based groups and approvals, distribution groups, security groups

Plan and configure synchronisation rules

Inbound and outbound sync rules, create objects in metaverse using declarative rules, advanced attribute flows, relationships

Plan and configure authorisation and action workflows

Configure approvals, including multiple approvals and escalations; notifications; deploying and configuring custom workflow activities

Plan and configure security permissions and Management Policy Rules (MPRs)

Delegated administration, plan and implement user profile self-service, plan and implement group self-service, temporal objects, sets and set membership

Preparation resources

Provisioning rules
Synchronisation in Forefront Identity Manager 2010
Managing user identities with Forefront Identity Manager 2010 test lab guide

Configure advanced portal-based scenarios (17%)

Configure the Resource Control Display Configuration (RCDC) for object and attribute display

RCDC capabilities, validations, attribute permissions, data sources and data binding, form controls

Customise the user experience

Search scopes, menu navigation items, organisational branding, home page configuration, create and configure email templates, usage keywords

Extend the portal schema

Resource types, attributes, bindings, schema validation, synchronisation filters

Plan and configure self-service password reset and registration

Authentication workflow for password reset and registration, QA gates, case sensitivity, lockout gates, password reset action workflow

Write and interpret XPath queries

Create valid FIM XPath filters, reference objects and attributes, filters, conditions

Preparation resources

Understanding configuring and customising the FIM Portal
Creating a custom RCDC in Forefront Identity Manager 2010
Test lab guide: Demonstrating the FIM 2010 R2 self-service password reset with the QA gate

Configure FIM synchronisation (22%)

Create and configure standard management agents (MAs)

SQL Server MA, Certificate Management MA, Active Directory MA, file-based MAs, difference between call-based and file-based MAs, attribute flows, filters, projection rules, join rules, deprovisioning rules

Create and configure the FIM Service MA

Resource type mapping, Synchronisation Rule filter, understand the constraints of the FIM MA, attribute flow

Configure the metaverse

Plan precedence, extend the schema, object deletion rules

Create and automate run profiles

Clear run history, multi-step run profiles, run sequencing

Implement rules extensions

Install and configure password synchronisation and Password Change Notification Service (PCNS)

Configure Active Directory MA, install services on domain controllers, schema changes related to PCNS, service principal names

Preparation resources

Management agents in FIM 2010
Object deletion rules
Run profiles in FIM 2010 R2

Monitor and maintain FIM (21%)

Migrate the FIM configuration between environments

FIM Portal configuration, DLLs and code, synchronisation service server configuration, run scripts and automation tools, Windows PowerShell scripts, how-to-move configurations from development to test to production

Perform root cause analysis of provisioning issues

Issues with management policy rules, set definitions, workflows, and expected rule entries; misconfiguration of synchronisation service server; coexistence of classic provisioning and declarative provisioning; result sequence

Perform root cause analysis of issues related to password management

Issues with password synchronisation, self-service password reset, requirements for registration, end-to-end process

Perform root cause analysis of issues related to data flow and unexpected data

Data discovery issues, join issues, filter issues, run profile issues, threshold issues, Stack trace, precedence issues, object deletion rules

Perform root cause analysis of permissions issues

MPR definitions, set definitions, portal permission errors, service account permissions, provisioning issues, synchronisation service server roles

Preparation resources

Monitoring and diagnostics
Operations

 

Exam 62-193

Exam 62-193
Technology Literacy for Educators

Published: 16 October 2012
Languages: English
Audiences: Academic
Technology: Windows 7
Credit towards certification: Microsoft Certified Educator

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Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.

Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.

Demonstrate understanding of the Technology Literacy Goals described in the Competency Framework for Teachers (CFT) framework

Identify the policy goals supported by the CFT framework

Identify CFT framework and approaches

Identify the target student outcomes that result from implementing a CFT-supported learning experience

Demonstrate basic knowledge of how Information and Communication Tools (ICT) resources can support curriculum outcomes

Given a curriculum goal or standard, incorporate ICT resources

Given a scenario, evaluate and select an ICT instructional resource

Given a scenario, evaluate and select an ICT assessment resource

Select an appropriate computer-based tool to monitor and share student performance data

Use basic tools to support learning activities

Given a specific learning activity, identify the hardware requirements and devices necessary to support the activity

Use the Internet to support learning activities

Use a search engine and search strategies to support learning activities

Create and use a web-based email account

Given a scenario, select the most appropriate type of software application

Use software to manage and share student and classroom data

Use common communication and collaboration technologies to support learning activities

Organise and manage a standard classroom

Integrate learning activities into a computer laboratory environment

Manage the use of ICT resources with individuals, small groups and whole groups in varied environments

Manage logistics and social interactions around ICT resources

Use digital literacy tools to enhance professional performance

Use ICT resources to enhance teacher productivity

Use ICT resources to support teacher professional learning

Identify and manage Internet safety issues