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Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016 (70-740)
:point_right: Exam 70-740
1. Install Windows Servers in host and compute environments
Skill 1.1: Install, upgrade and migrate servers and workloads
- Windows Server 2016 installations are informed by the most suitable installation method, installation option (Desktop Experience, Server Core , or Nano Server), and edition as well as activation model.
- Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition is the only edition with several important features that play an important part in the exam: Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) , Shielded VMs, Storage Replica, and Network Controller.
- Idempotent configuration management is available with Desired State Configuration (DSC) .
- The servicing channel is also an important consideration.
Skill 1.2: Install and configure Nano Server
- Nano Server is a new installation option even smaller than Server Core. Nano Server images are created using PowerShell.
- Microsoft removed this objective from the exam on November 2, 2018.
Skill 1.3: Create, manage, and maintain images for deployment
- Firms have begun virtualizing physical servers and migrating the data to Virtual Hard Disk Drives (VHD).
- The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a free software tool that intelligently constructs a database of the hardware, software, and performance of computers on a network to plan for an operating system upgrade or virtualization.
2. Implement storage solutions
Skill 2.1: Configure disks and volumes
- Hard drives have the option of GPT or MBR partition tables and NTFS or ReFS file systems.
- File shares have the choice of SMB or NFS protocols.
Skill 2.2: Implement server storage
- Storage Spaces can create storage pools spanning many drives, and is preferred to using software RAID with
disk.management.msc. Like RAID, Storage Spaces offers resiliency options including Simple, Parity, and Mirror. - iSCSI model of initiators and targets is analogous to clients and servers.
- Storage Replica supports one-way replication between servers, clusters, or storage devices.
Skill 2.3: Implement data deduplication
- Data deduplication is a role service that conserves storage space for certain deployment scenarios, including general purpose file servers, VDI deployments, and backups.
3. Implement Hyper-V
Skill 3.1: Install and configure Hyper-V
- Hyper-V is a type I hypervisor that can host VMs, called guests.
- Hyper-V can be managed via GUI or PowerShell.
- Hyper-V authentication can be Kerberos or CredSSP.
- PowerShell remoting can be explicit or implicit. PowerShell Direct is similar to implicit remoting in that it allows commands to be applied to VMs specified with
VmName.
Skill 3.2: Configure virtual machine (VM) settings
- Hyper-V guests can take advantage of a range of performance features, including dynamic RAM and device passthrough.
- Linux and BSD guest OS performance can be improved with integration services are installed which increase interoperability with the Hyper-V host.
Skill 3.3: Configure Hyper-V storage
- IDE controllers are only available on Generation 1 VMs; Generation 2 VMs exclusively use SCSI controllers.
- VHD files come in two different formats (.vhd and .vhdx) a variety of forms, including differencing disks
Skill 3.4: Configure Hyper-V networking
- Virtual switches can be external, internal, or private, and Hyper-V guests can have up to 8 virtual NICs.
- NIC teaming can be configured by teaming mode as well as load balancing mode. Bandwidth management can also be done by setting limits on the virtual NIC.
- PXE boot is supported on Generation 2 VMs with synthetic NICs and Generation 1 VMs on a legacy NIC.
4. Implement Windows containers
Skill 4.1: Deploy Windows containers
- Containers run processes in an isolated namespace, meaning it only has access to the resources made available to it by the container runtime environment.
- Windows Server 2016 supports both Hyper-V Containers, where each container runs its own kernel, as well as normal containers that share the kernel of the container runtime.
- Nano Server can no longer host containers; rather Nano Server instances are now intended to be themselves deployed as containers.
Skill 4.2: Manage Windows containers
- Persistent storage options for containers can be done as volume mounts, bind mounts, and
tmpfsmounts.