Audience
Network administrators and network designers or consultants. Participants should have taken the Novell NetWare 5 Administration series (courses 82301-05) and Novell NetWare 5 Advanced Administration series (courses 82311-15) prior to taking this course. This is an approved study guide that will help you prepare for certification exam 50-634 and is equivalent to Novell class 575.
Objective
- Identify Novell Directory Service (NDS) design theories.
- Identify the concepts associated with implementing the design of an NDS tree.
- Determine an NDS partition and replication strategy.
- Create a time synchronization strategy.
- Synchronize time for a network.
Topics Include
Unit 1: NDS Design Theory
- Identify why NDS design is important to the success of a network.
- Identify the tasks of personnel roles needed in NDS design.
- Identify the phases of the NDS design cycle.
- Identify the design implications of merging two companies.
Unit 2: Designing an NDS Tree
- Sequence the steps to design an NDS tree.
- Match the NDS concepts with their descriptions.
- Sequence the steps to create a naming standards document.
- Identify exceptions to using location-based design.
- Identify criteria that affect lower layer tree design.
Unit 3: NDS Partitions and Replicas
- Identify the characteristics of a partition.
- Identify the types of replicas.
- Indicate factors that affect partitions and replicas.
- Identify guidelines to determining partition boundaries.
- Identify benefits of a replica placement strategy.
Unit 4: Time Synchronization
- Identify the importance of time synchronization on a network.
- Match each IPX server type with its description.
- Identify the methods by which servers communicate.
- Identify NTP time source for IP and IPX servers.
- Identify conditions that affect planning a time synchronization strategy.
- Identify the advantages and considerations for implementing the single reference time synchronization method.
- Identify the benefits and considerations of time provider groups.
- Perform the steps to create time synchronization on the single reference and secondary servers.
Duration
8
Minimum Requirements
The CDROM version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
- At least a double speed CDROM drive.
- An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).
The network version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
Media
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