MS 2788A - Designing High Availability Database Solutions Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
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Description: This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to design high availability database solutions using Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The course focuses on teaching experienced database administrators working in enterprise environments to design database solutions that meet the availability needs of their organization. It emphasizes that students should think broadly about high availability, which includes thinking about the database itself and about their entire environment, including business needs; regulatory requirements; and network, systems, and database considerations during design. Students will also learn how to document and test the high availability database solution.
Days: 3
Prerequisites: Before attending this course, students must:
• Have a basic understanding of network architecture. For example, what can fail in a network, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), differing performance characteristics of network components, etc.
• Understand the tradeoffs among the different redundant storage types. For example, what RAID levels mean, how it differs from a SAN, etc.
• Understand how replication works and how replication is implemented.
• Be familiar with reading user requirements and business-need documents. For example, development project vision or mission statements or business analysis reports.
• Have monitoring and troubleshooting skills.
• Have knowledge of the operating system and platform. Specifically, must understand how hardware can fail, how the operating system integrates with the database, what the platform or operating system can do, and how the interaction between the operating system and the database works.
• Have knowledge of application architecture. Specifically, must understand how applications identify servers to connect to, how applications can be designed in three layers, what applications can do, the interactions between applications and the database, interactions between the database and the platform or operating system.
Know how to use:
• A monitoring tool
• Microsoft Visio (to create infrastructure diagrams)
• Be familiar with SQL Server 2005 features, tools, and
technologies.
• Have a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 credential - or
equivalent experience.
In addition, it is recommended, but not required, that students have completed:
• Course 2778, Writing Queries Using Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 Transact-SQL.
• Course 2779, Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server
2005 Database.
• Course 2780, Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server
2005 Database.
Audience: This course is intended for current professional database administrators who have three or more years of on-the-job experience administering SQL Server database solutions in an enterprise environment.
Module 1: Introduction to Designing SQL Server Security
This module introduces the principles and methodology of designing SQL Server security. This module also explains the benefits of having a security policy in place and the process of creating a security policy. In addition, this module teaches you the importance of monitoring the security of SQL Server.
Lessons
· Principles of Database Security
· Methodology for Designing a SQL Server Security Policy
· Monitoring SQL Server Security
Module 2: Designing a SQL Server Systems Infrastructure Security Policy
This module provides the guidelines for implementing server-level security using authentication methods. This module also provides the knowledge required to develop a Microsoft Windows server-level security policy. To enable you to do this, this module provides the guidelines to create password policy and determine service accounts permissions. In addition, this module explains how to select an appropriate encryption method to develop a secure communication policy. This module also explains the monitoring standards for SQL Server.
Lessons
· Integrating with Enterprise Authentication Systems
· Developing Windows Server-Level Security Policies
· Developing a Secure Communication Policy
· Defining SQL Server Security Monitoring Standards
Lab 2A: Designing a SQL Server Systems Infrastructure Security Policy
Lab 2B: Creating an Infrastructure Security Inventory
Module 3: Designing Security Policies for Instances and Databases
This module explains how to design SQL Server instance-level, database-level, and object-level security policies. This module teaches the security monitoring standards for instances and databases.
Lessons
· Designing an Instance-Level Security Policy
· Designing a Database-Level Security Policy
· Designing an Object-Level Security Policy
· Defining Security Monitoring Standards for Instances and
Databases
Lab 3A: Designing Security Policies for Instances and Databases
Lab 3B: Validating Security Policies for Instances and Databases
Module 4: Integrating Data Encryption into a Database Security Design
This module provides the guidelines and considerations for security data using encryption and certificates. This module also describes various data encryption policies. Finally, this module shows how to determine a key storage method.
Lessons
· Securing Data by Using Encryption and Certificates
· Designing Data Encryption Policies
· Determining a Key Storage Method
Lab 4: Integrating Data Encryption into a Database Security Design
Module 5: Designing a Security Exceptions Policy
This module provides guidelines for gathering business and regulatory requirements and comparing them with existing policy. This module also covers how to determine the exceptions and their impact on security.
Lessons
· Analyzing Business and Regulatory Requirements
· Determining the Exceptions and their Impact
Lab 5: Designing a Security Exceptions Policy
Module 6: Designing a Response Strategy for Threats and Attacks
This module provides guidelines to respond to virus and worm attacks, denial-of-service attacks, and injection attacks.
Lessons
· Designing a Response Policy for Virus and Worm Attacks
· Designing a Response Policy for Denial-of-Service Attacks
· Designing a Response Policy for Internal and SQL Injection
Attacks
Lab 6: Designing a Response Strategy for Threats and Attacks
