Course details

This course provides guidance on installing, upgrading, and licensing for Windows 8. Students will learn how to manage storage by creating simple, spanned, and striped volumes, and how to optimize file-system performance. Additionally, they will learn how to manage available disk space by using quotas. Students will work with Windows tools and services to determine the source of performance and reliability issues, and to troubleshoot these issues.

Course Outline

  • Lesson 1: Installing Windows 8
  • Lesson 2: Upgrading and Migrating to Windows 8
  • Lesson 3: Managing Disks and Device Drivers
  • Lesson 4: Configuring and Troubleshooting Network Connections
  • Lesson 5: Implementing Wireless Network Connections
  • Lesson 6: Implementing Network Security
  • Lesson 7: Configuring File Access and Printers on Windows 8 Clients
  • Lesson 8: Securing Windows 8 Desktop
  • Lesson 9: Configuring Applications
  • Lesson 10: Optimizing and Maintaining Windows 8 Client Computers
  • Lesson 11: Configuring Mobile Computing and Remote Access
  • Lesson 12: Implementing Hyper-V
  • Lesson 13: Troubleshooting and Recovering Windows 8
  • Lesson 15: Using Windows PowerShell

Prerequisites

  • Networking fundamentals, including Transmission Control Protocol /Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Domain Name System (DNS)
  • Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) principles and fundamentals of AD DS management
  • Understanding of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) components and working knowledge of the fundamentals of Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 fundamentals
  • Microsoft Windows Client fundamentals; for example, working knowledge of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and/or Windows 7
  • Fundamentals of management and experience using the Microsoft Office 2010 system or the Microsoft Office 2007 system
  • Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) components including Windows PE, Windows SIM, VAMT, ImageX, USMT, and DISM concepts and fundamentals
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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