This course is intended to validate the configuration skills needed to administer a SharePoint 2010 installation and administer SharePoint 2010.

• Exam 70–667
• Exam 70–668

Exam 70–667

This exam is intended to validate the configuration skills needed to administer a SharePoint 2010 installation.

Audience Profile

Exam: 70-667 - Candidates for this exam typically have more than one year of experience configuring SharePoint and related technologies, including Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows Server 2008, and Active Directory, and networking infrastructure services.

The minimally qualified candidate typically:

• Is an IT administrator involved in SharePoint installation, configuration, and maintenance.
• Has experience with deployment and management of SharePoint architectures and solutions.
• Is proficient with IIS 7.0, DNS, Active Directory, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or higher as these technologies relate to SharePoint.
• Is proficient with the infrastructure and security of Windows Server 2008.
• Has experience with business operations for IT, including data backup, restoration, and high availability.
• Has experience with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and command-line administration.

Credit Toward Certification

When you pass Exam 70-667: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring, you complete the requirements for the following certification(s): MCTS: SharePoint 2010, Configuration

Exam 70-667: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring: counts as credit toward the following certification(s): MCITP: SharePoint Administrator 2010

Skills Being Measured

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.

Installing and Configuring a SharePoint Environment

• Deploy new installations and upgrades.
• Configure SharePoint farms.
• Configure service applications.
• Configure indexing and search.

Managing a SharePoint Environment

• Manage operational settings.
• Manage accounts and user roles.
• Manage authentication providers.

Deploying and Managing Applications

• Manage Web Applications.
• Manage site collections.
• Deploy and manage SharePoint solutions.

Maintaining a SharePoint Environment

• Back up and restore a SharePoint environment.
• Monitor and analyze a SharePoint environment.
• Optimize the performance of a SharePoint environment.

Exam 70–668

This exam validates the skills needed to administer SharePoint 2010.

Audience Profile

Exam: 70-668 - Candidates for this exam design and deploy Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 infrastructures. These candidates might be senior administrators who act as the technical lead over a team of administrators. These candidates are responsible for the planning and deployment of SharePoint 2010 environments. Candidates should have a minimum of two years of experience administering, deploying, managing, monitoring, upgrading, migrating, and designing SharePoint servers.

The candidate typically plans, designs, and maintains:

• Physical topologies and services architecture
• Disaster recovery (backup, restore) and availability
• Infrastructure capacity (users, topology)
• Farm performance and availability
• Migration and upgrade
• Security and compliance requirements
• Information architecture (interprets taxonomy)
• Information search strategy integration with other data sources (LOB, third-party products)
• Client application services deployment

This audience also has a thorough understanding of the following:

• Windows PowerShell scripting
• Server availability and performance concepts (SQL mirroring, load balancing)
• Security concepts and authentication methods
• Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory administration
• Networking infrastructure services including DNS and IIS

Credit Toward Certification

Exam 70-668: PRO: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator: counts as credit toward the following certification(s): MCITP: SharePoint Administrator 2010

Skills Being Measured

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

Designing a SharePoint 2010 Farm Topology

• Design physical architecture.
• Design SharePoint integration with network infrastructure.
• Design logical taxonomy.
• Plan for sandbox solutions.
• Plan for farm deployment.
• Plan for availability.

Planning SharePoint 2010 Deployment

• Plan service applications.
• Plan a SharePoint component strategy.
• Plan an upgrade strategy.
• Design a migration strategy.
• Design security architecture.
• Plan and deploy authentication methods.

Defining a SharePoint 2010 Operations Strategy and Business Continuity

• Design a maintenance strategy.
• Recommend provisioning strategies.
• Establish an enterprise monitoring plan.
• Plan SharePoint backup and restore.

Planning for Search and Business Solutions

• Define search requirements.
• Plan search topology.
• Plan an enterprise search strategy.
• Plan enterprise content management.
• Plan for social computing and collaboration.
• Plan for a business intelligence strategy.