This is a great exam. For anyone who
wants to or has implemented Microsoft Technologies in the workplace, you will be
moderately surprised about this exam. It covers most aspects of what you need to
know about NLB, Clusters, Web Solutions and Availability. Study well for this
exam, it is in line with the difficulty of the rest of the Design
exams.
You need to know a lot about server-based
technologies to do well with this exam. You will be expected to know the basics
of redundancy, Clustering and Disaster recovery inside and out – hence the
title “Highly Available”
There isn’t any study material
available right now, but a MSPRESS book is slated to come out in October. You
can view it here:
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Microsoft states:
Candidates for this exam should work in
medium to very large Internet or corporate intranet environments that use
Microsoft Windows 2000 operating systems. They have a minimum of two years'
experience planning and designing highly available Web site infrastructures.
They work in multiserver, n-tier application environments that have the
following characteristics:
- Concurrent
client connections that can exceed 1,000
- Transactional applications
- User databases, such as LDAP server or directory service
- Internet
security, such as firewalls, secure protocols, or proxy servers
- High
availability services that can include Network Load Balancing (NLB), Component
Load Balancing (CLB), Cluster service, and Microsoft Application Center
2000
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