CompTIA Server+ 2005
Target Audience
Service managers, technicians, systems engineers/administrators,
help desk staff, service and repair professionals, system analysts
and integrators, PC support specialists, network
engineers/administrators/analysts/architects/managers/specialists
Lesson 1: Servers and their Components
Lesson Objectives
- identify the characteristics of servers and recognize the
features of the key server categories.
- identify various roles that can be assigned to network
servers.
- identify server categories and assign roles to servers.
- recognize the features and functions of motherboards and
expansion buses.
- recognize the features and functions of specified PCI system
bus architectures.
- identify memory types and best practices for managing server
memory.
- identify the specifications of the main server processors and
recognize how multiprocessing works.
- select memory types and processors in given scenarios.
Lesson 2: IDE, SCSI, and Server Storage
Lesson Objectives
- identify the features of Fibre Channel technology and
differentiate between SAN and NAS.
- deploy RAID levels in a given scenario.
- choose appropriate server storage technologies in a given
scenario.
- differentiate between physical and logical disks.
- recognize the different IDE technologies and configuration best
practices.
- identify the different SCSI types and the benefits of SCSI over
IDE.
- identify best practices for installing and configuring SCSI
technologies.
- add components using IDE and SCSI best practices.
Lesson 3: Installation and Configuration
Lesson Objectives
- identify pre-installation planning activities.
- identify key considerations for evaluating remote management
requirements.
- identify key considerations and best practices for installing
server hardware.
- create server planning and hardware installation best practice
checklists.
- identify considerations involved in installing and configuring
a network operating system.
- identify best practices for installing service tools on the
server and measuring baseline performance.
- create NOS and service tool installation best practice
checklists.
Lesson 4: Upgrading
Lesson Objectives
- identify critical steps and considerations involved in planning
a server upgrade.
- identify best practices and troubleshooting procedures for
adding memory and processors.
- identify best practices and troubleshooting procedures to be
employed when upgrading hard disks, adaptors, and peripherals.
- identify key considerations, best practices, and
troubleshooting procedures for software upgrades.
- identify best practices and troubleshooting procedures that
should be employed when upgrading servers.
Lesson 5: Disaster Recovery and Server
Backups
Lesson Objectives
- identify backup strategies and select appropriate media
types.
- identify best practices for framing backup plans, restoring
data, and troubleshooting common backup problems.
- choose and implement backup strategies.
- identify risks for a disaster recovery plan and create
strategies to deal with them.
- identify components and considerations aimed at ensuring
redundancy, scalability, and high availability.
- identify key considerations for creating and maintaining a
disaster recovery plan.
- identify key considerations and best practices in creating a
disaster recovery plan.
Lesson 6: Maintenance and Environment
Lesson Objectives
- identify key considerations when monitoring servers.
- identify how data can be gathered to monitor server
performance.
- identify the features and functions of SNMP and discuss its
relationship with RMON.
- identify best practices for maintaining a server.
- identify methods to mitigate common environmental issues that
may affect server performance.
- identify measures and best practices for physically securing
the server room and server hardware.
- manage environmental and physical security issues.
Lesson 7: Troubleshooting Servers
Lesson Objectives
- identify the steps in the troubleshooting process and discuss
how to prioritize problems.
- identify methods for gathering information to determine the
origins of problems.
- identify best practices and resources for fixing and
documenting server-related problems.
- identify best practices and procedures for troubleshooting
problems in a given scenario.
- identify strategies for dealing with common server-related
problems.
- identify best practices and guidelines for using documentation
and log files to solve server-related problems.
- identify the troubleshooting features of specified diagnostic
tools.
- select diagnostic tools and techniques in a given
scenario.