Microsoft 70-450

PRO: Designing, Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administrative Solution Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008

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This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.

Design a SQL Server instance and a database solution (14%)

Design for CPU, memory, and storage capacity requirements
RAID, calculating table size, IO throughput, transaction per second, data compression, non-uniform memory access (NUMA), tempdb capacity
Design SQL Server instances
Instance configuration, surface area configuration, CPU affinity, memory allocation, max degree of parallelism (MAXDOP), collation
Design physical database and object placement
Heap and index placement, filestream, data and log files, filegroups, partition placement, large object placement, full text catalog
Design a migration, consolidation, and upgrade strategy
Multi-instance considerations, SQL Server version upgrade, instance and database collation, server-level and instance-level objects, service pack application

Design a database server security solution (15%)

Design instance authentication
Choosing authentication type, logon triggers, regulatory requirements
Design instance-level security configurations
Windows service accounts, filestream, proxy, credentials, instance-level permissions, certificate and key management, endpoint security, using SSL certificates, TCP ports
Design database, schema, and object security parameters
Users, roles, certificate and key management, Service broker, Common Language Runtime (CLR), ownership chains
Design a security policy and an audit plan
Policy-Based Management Framework, security functions, sp_helprotect, catalog views, extended events, notifications
Design an encryption strategy
Transparent Data Encryption, encrypting protected data, certificate and key management, filestream

Design a database solution for high availability (15%)

Design a failover clustering solution
Cluster resource group, cluster setup considerations, number of nodes, service accounts
Design database mirroring
Whether to use a witness server, Windows Server considerations, suspend versus stop, automatic or manual failover, automatic page repair, database snapshots for reporting, manage instance-level objects
Design a high-availability solution that is based on replication
Different replication types, topologies, recover from replication failure, synchronization, health monitoring
Design a high-availability solution that is based on log shipping
Manage instance-level objects, changing roles, reporting secondary instance for reporting, monitor server, reinitializing, consistency check on secondary instance
Select high-availability technologies based on business requirements
Failover clustering, database mirroring, log shipping, replication

Design a backup and recovery solution (20%)

Design a backup strategy
Recovery model, compression, choose backup types, scheduling, backup media, file and filegroups backup, verify backups, key management, mirrored backups, cluster considerations
Design a recovery strategy
Page, file, filegroup, partial and online restores, orphan users, instance rebuild, encryption considerations, handle media failures, transaction logs, point in time and mark recovery, filestreams
Design a recovery test plan
Log shipping, replication, hardware considerations, schedule a database restore test, handle high-availability failures

Design a monitoring strategy (13%)

Design a monitoring solution at the operating system level
System monitor counters, event logs, dynamic management views and functions, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), remote monitoring, analyze results
Install SQL Server and related services
Test connectivity; enable and disable features; install SQL Server database engine and SSIS (not SSRS and SSAS); configure an operating system disk
Design a monitoring solution at the instance level
Instance, database, and object monitoring, data collection, event notifications, dynamic management objects, analyze results
Design a solution to monitor performance and concurrency
Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC), locking, blocking, deadlocks, dynamic management objects, index utilization, tracing, analyze

Design a strategy to maintain and manage databases (14%)

Design a maintenance strategy for database servers
Rebuild for page-level compression, index and heap maintenance, partition management, statistics
Design a solution to govern resources
Resource Governor (CPU, memory, number of requests per second, resource pools, resource groups), query governor
Design policies by using Policy-Based Management
Designing policies and conditions
Design a data compression strategy
Row versus page level, update frequency, compression ratio, compressing partitions, specific indexes
Design a management automation strategy
SQL Server PowerShell, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), SQL Server Agent, event notifications, DDL triggers

Design a strategy for data distribution (9%)

Administer SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages
Design security for accessing packages, troubleshoot and restart package, schedule package execution, deploy packages to same or different instances
Design a strategy to use linked servers
Security, providers, distributed transactions
Design a replication strategy for data distribution
Select replication types, conflict resolution, health monitoring, horizontal and vertical partitioning