Class 1:

• Install Windows Servers in host and compute environments
• Skill 1.1: Install, upgrade, and migrate servers and workloads
• Determine Windows Server 2019 installation requirements
• Determine appropriate Windows Server 2019 editions per workload
• Install Windows Server 2019
• Install Windows Server 2019 features and roles

Class 2:

• Skill 1.2: Install and configure Windows Server Core
• Implement Windows Server 2019 Admin Center

Class 3:

• Skill 1.3: Create, manage, and maintain images for deployment
• Plan for Windows Server virtualization
• Update images with patches, hotfixes, and drivers

Class 4:

• Skill 1.3 (continued)
• Install Roles and Features in offline images
• Make a Bootable USB Flash Drive
• Reset Administrator Password Server 2019 

Class 5:

• Skill 2.1: Install and configure domain controllers, AD DS fundamentals
• Install a new forest
• Add or remove a domain controller
• Install AD DS on a Server Core installation

Class 6:

• Skill 2.2: Create and manage Active Directory users and computers
• Create, copy, configure, and delete users and computers
• Implement offline domain join
• Configure user rights
• Perform bulk Active Directory operations

Class 7:

• Skill 2.3: Create and manage Active Directory groups and organizational units
• Create and manage groups
• Create and manage OUs
• Delegate management of Active Directory with groups and OUs

Class 8:

• Skill 3.1: Configure service authentication and account policies
• Configure account policies
• Configure and apply Password Settings Objects
• Delegate password settings management

Class 9:

• Skill 3.2: Maintain Active Directory
• Manage Active Directory offline
• Active Directory backup and recovery
• Manage Read-Only Domain Controllers
• Managing AD DS replication

Class 10:

• Skill 4.1: Create and manage Group Policy Objects
• Configure multiple local Group Policies
• Overview of domain-based GPOs
• Manage starter GPOs
• Configure GPO links
• Back up, restore, import, and copy GPOs
• Create and configure a migration table
• Reset default GPOs
• Delegate Group Policy management
• Detect health issues using the Group Policy Infrastructure Status dashboard

Class 11:

• Skill 4.2: Configure Group Policy Processing
• Configure processing order and precedence
• Configuring inheritance
• Configure security filtering and WMI filtering
• Configure loopback processing
• Configure and manage slow-link processing and Group Policy caching
• Configure client-side extension behavior
• Force a Group Policy update

Class 12: 

• Skill 4.3: Configure Group Policy settings
• Configure software installation
• Configure scripts
• Import security templates
• Configure folder redirection
• Configure administrative templates
• Configure Group Policy preferences
• Configure item-level targeting

Class 13:

• Skill 5.1: Configure disks and volumes
• Configure sector sizes appropriate for various workloads
• Configure GUID partition table (GPT) disks
• Create VHD and VHDX files using Server Manager or Windows PowerShell
• Mount Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs)
• Determine when to use NTFS and ReFS File Systems
• Configure NFS and SMB shares using Server Manager
• Configure SMB share and session settings using Windows PowerShell
• Configure the SMB server using Windows PowerShell
• Configure file and folder permissions

Class 14:

• Skill 5.2: Implement server storage
• Configure storage pools
• Implement simple, mirror, and parity storage layout options
• Configure tiered storage
• Configure the iSCSI target and initiator
• Configure Datacenter Bridging (DCB)

Class 15 – Midterm Exam

Class 16: 

• Skill 5.3: Implement data deduplication
• Implement and configure deduplication
• Implement a backup and restore solution with deduplication

Class 17:

• Block USB Drives and Removable Media
• IE Restrict using Starter GPO
• Deploying Software Using Group Policy

Class 18:

• FSRM Server 2016
• Installing and configuring printer server

Class 19:

• Deploying Software Using Group Policy
• BitLocker Server 2016
• Group Policy Central Store

Class 20:

• Deploy Remote App
• Configure Folder Redirection

Class 21:

• Disable Control Panel
• Create Home Folder
• Hide C Drive Using Group Policy

Class 22:

• Skill 11.1: Implement Hyper-V
• Move and convert VMs from previous versions of Hyper-V to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
• Export and import VMs
• Implement Discrete Device Assignment (DDA)
• Configure MAC addresses

Class 23:

• Skill 11.2: Configure Hyper-V storage
• Create shared VHDX files
• Configure differencing disks
• Modify virtual hard disks
• Configure pass-through disks
• Resize a virtual hard disk

Class 24:

• Skill 12.1: Implement Windows containers
• Deploy Windows containers
• Install and configure Windows Server Container Host in physical or virtualized environments
• Install Docker on Windows Server and Nano Server
• Server Core or Nano Server in a physical or virtualized environment
• Configure Docker Daemon start-up options
• Install a base operating system
• Tag an image
• Uninstall an operating system image

Class 25:

• Create Windows Server containers
• Create Hyper-V containers

Class 26:

• Skill 13.1: Maintain and monitor server environments
• Windows Deployment Service in Windows Server 2019

Class 27:

• Skill 13.2: Implement Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) solutions
• Perform backup and restore operations using Windows Server backup

Class 28:

• Skill 14.1–14.3: Implement Domain Name System
• Install and configure DNS servers
• Create and configure DNS zones and records
• DNS Security

Class 29:

• Skill 15.1–15.2: Implement DHCP
• Install and configure DHCP
• Configure the DHCP relay agent and PXE boot
• Configure high availability using DHCP failover
• Backup and restore the DHCP database
• Skill 16.1: Implement IP address management (IPAM)
• Install and configure IPAM Architecture

Class 30 – Final Exam