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Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam should have the following:
Operating experience with System Center Data Protection
Manager 2007
At least one year of experience with data and system
recoverability and data protection
At least one year of experience with Windows Server
administration and network infrastructure
Production experience with at least one protected workload,
plus working knowledge of the other protected workloads
Credit Toward CertificationWhen
you pass Exam 70-658: TS: System Center Data Protection Manager
2007, Configuring, you complete the requirements for the following
certification(s):Microsoft
Certified Technology Specialist: System Center Data Protection
Manager, Configuration
Skills
Being MeasuredThis 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.The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see
on that content area on the exam.
The information after “This
objective may include but is not limited to” is intended to further
define or scope the objective by describing the types of skills and
topics that may be tested for the objective. However, it is not an
exhaustive list of skills and topics that could be included on the exam
for a given skill area. You may be tested on other skills and topics
related to the objective that are not explicitly listed here.
Installing Data Protection
Manager (DPM) (16%)
Install the DPM
server
This objective
may include but is not limited to: verify software and
hardware prerequisites; choose and configure SQL Server
location; run DPM installation wizard
Enable End User
Recovery (EUR)
This objective
may include but is not limited to: configuring Active
Directory, DPM server, and Shadow Copy Client
Configure
networking for DPM
This objective
may include but is not limited to: agent to server
communication; bandwidth requirements; enabling a dedicated
backup protection network
Managing Media and Agents
(21%)
Deploy a DPM agent
This objective
may include but is not limited to: domain/forest membership;
pushing an agent from the console; deploying an agent by
using software distribution or manually; connecting an agent
to a DPM server by using the DPM Management Shell
Control DPM
bandwidth
This objective
may include but is not limited to: agent bandwidth
throttling; server bandwidth throttling; on-the-wire
compression
Manage disks
This objective
may include but is not limited to: disk; cloud; moving a
replica to another disk
Manage tapes
This objective
may include but is not limited to: tape, tape devices, copy
to tape, inventory, encryption
Protecting Workloads (23%)
Define protection
for standalone configurations
This objective
may include but is not limited to: setting up protection
groups for core workloads, criteria for separate protection
groups, ramifications for restore, selecting data sources
Define protection
for highly available configurations
This objective
may include but is not limited to: application availability
options, failover clustering, DFS interactions
Configure
protection policies
This objective
may include but is not limited to: implementing a protection
policy through a protection group, short-term vs. long-term
protection schedules, retention time
Manage recovery
points
This objective
may include but is not limited to: creating a recovery
point; different types of recovery points; defining recovery
point schedules; optimizing schedules for recovery time;
time offset
Stage a replica
This objective
may include but is not limited to: prestaging; running an
initial consistency check; postponing initial replication
Recovering Workloads (23%)
Recover files
This objective
may include but is not limited to: workstations, file
servers, overwrite, permissions, recovering to a network
folder
Recover Exchange
Server data
This objective
may include but is not limited to: Recovery Storage Group
(RSG), Exchange Server 2003 vs. Exchange Server 2007,
recovering to an alternative Exchange server, scope of
recovery
Recover SharePoint
data
This objective
may include but is not limited to: recovery farms, data
granularity, protection schedules
Recover SQL Server
data
This objective
may include but is not limited to: SQL Server 2005 vs. SQL
Server 2008, recovery to an alternate server, advanced
recovery options, protection schedules and SQL Server
recovery mode
Recover system
state data
This objective
may include but is not limited to: choosing when to enable
system state recovery; applying recovered system state
Recover virtualized
environments
This objective
may include but is not limited to: virtual guests, host
configuration, recovering to another host
Managing, Protecting, and
Recovering the DPM Server (18%)
Monitor DPM
This objective
may include but is not limited to: setting up alerts,
scheduling and running reports, System Center Operations
Manager (SCOM), Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), PerfMon,
Event Viewer, DPM Administrator Console
Perform maintenance
This objective
may include but is not limited to: ensuring replica
integrity, ad hoc and scheduled consistency checks, data
integrity checks
Integrate with
other backup solutions
This objective
may include but is not limited to: identifying the
production data within the DPM server; protecting the DPM
configuration database
Configure DPM for
disaster recovery
This objective
may include but is not limited to: activating the agent on
the primary DPM server; configuring workloads to be
protected; switch primary/secondary roles; enable secondary
protection with DPM; protecting the DPM configuration
database
Recover a DPM
server
This objective
may include but is not limited to: restoring the DPM
configuration database, creating static copies of replicas,
repairing DPM
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