SharePoint 2010 SP1: Deployment Topology and Availability

Overview/Description
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SP1 is a business collaboration platform where people can collaborate, set up web sites, manage documents, and provide intelligence to make key business decisions. This course provides insight to planning SharePoint deployment topology and availability. This course is one of a series in the SkillSoft learning path that covers the objectives for Microsoft Exam 70-668 (PRO: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administration). Passing this exam will earn the learner MCITP: SharePoint Administrator 2010 certification.

Target Audience
Senior server administrators and technical leads tasked with planning and deployment of SharePoint 2010 SP1 and SharePoint Online. They should have a minimum of two years' experience in planning, deploying, and administering SharePoint 2010 environments and have taken and passed exam 70-667: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

SharePoint 2010 SP1: Deployment Topology and Availability

match reference architectures in SharePoint 2010 with their descriptions

match the factors to consider in determining the type of farm to deploy in SharePoint 2010 with corresponding examples

recognize the steps in planning for virtual architectures

recognize the steps to create a virtualization plan

specify a plan for SharePoint farm deployments

specify a plan for virtual SharePoint deployments

define the SharePoint availability and strategy level

identify the key concepts relating to planning for availability in SharePoint 2010

recognize how to plan for database availability in SharePoint 2010

define the concept of failover clusters in SharePoint 2010

define the concept of network load balancing in SharePoint 2010