Course 20740C: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016

This course is designed primarily for IT professionals who have some experience with Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing storage and compute by using Windows Server 2016, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and storage and compute options that are available and applicable to Windows Server 2016.

Audience profile

This course is intended for IT professionals who have some experience working with Windows Server, and who are looking for the course that covers storage and computes technologies in Windows Server 2016. This course will help them update their knowledge and skills related to storage and compute for Windows Server 2016.

Candidates suitable for this course would be:

• Windows Server administrators who are relatively new to Windows Server administration and related technologies, and who want to learn more about the storage and compute features in Windows Server 2016.
• IT professionals with general IT knowledge who are looking to gain knowledge about Windows Server especially around storage and compute technologies in Windows Server 2016.

The secondary audience for this course are IT professionals looking to take the Microsoft 70-740 certification exam, Installation, Storage and Compute with Windows Server 2016.

Course Outline

Module 1: Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads

Module 2: Configuring local storage

Module 3: Implementing enterprise storage solutions

Module 4: Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication

Module 5: Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines

Module 6: Deploying and managing Windows and Hyper-V containers

Module 7: Overview of high availability and disaster recovery

Module 8: Implementing failover clustering

Module 9: Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

Module 10: Implementing Network Load Balancing

Module 11: Creating and managing deployment images

Module 12: Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations

Before attending this course, students must have:

• A basic understanding of networking fundamentals.
• An awareness and understanding of security best practices.
• An understanding of basic AD DS concepts.
• Basic knowledge of server hardware.
• Experience supporting and configuring Windows client operating systems such as Windows 8 or Windows 10.

Additionally, students would benefit from having some previous Windows Server operating system experience, such as experience as a Windows Server systems administrator.