CIW Server Administrator Part 4: Servers

The audience for this course includes LAN/WAN administrators system administrators systems managers intranet administrators network engineers and internetworking engineers. The prerequisite for this course is that students must have CIW Foundations certification or equivalent experience. CIW accepts CompTIA's i-Net+ certification in place of the CIW Foundations course. This course covers exam number 1D0-450. In addition students should have taken the first three parts of this series (87001 thru 87003).

• Match features of HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) messages with their functions.
• Edit a HTTP error message.
• Identify features of Web applications.
• Identify features of the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Service.
• Create an expiration policy for a news server.
• Enable userbased access to a news server.

Unit 1: Advanced Web Server Configuration

• Sequence the steps that occur when a Web server communicates with a gateway.
• Register a database in Windows 2000 by using a System Data Source Name (DSN).
• Create a virtual directory for an Active Server Pages (ASP) application in Internet Information Server (IIS).
• Identify considerations for using a streaming media server.
• Sequence the steps for installing a streaming media server.
• Serve on-demand streaming media.
• Sequence the steps to broadcast on the Web by using Real Media.
• Match features of HTTP messages with their functions.
• Edit a HTTP error message.
• Identify features of Web applications.
• Locate Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) settings.
• Identify features of Perl.
• Identify the steps for installing Perl in IIS.
• Enable a Perl script for execution in IIS.
• Install a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) script on Apache server.
• Troubleshoot a Perl installation.

Unit 2: E-mail and News Servers

• Identify features of the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Service.
• Create an expiration policy for a news server.
• Enable user-based access to a news server.
• Sequence the steps in the e-mail delivery process.
• Identify features of advanced e-mail server configuration.
• Identify Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) commands.
• Match commands used to connect to a SMTP server by using Telnet with their functions.
• Conduct a Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) session by using Telnet.
• Identify functions of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP).
• Identify functions of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
• Match Mail Exchange (MX) record fields with their descriptions.
• Configure MDaemon.
• Identify features of MDaemon account settings.
• Create an MDaemon user account.
• Create an alias in MDaemon.
• Configure an MDaemon server to enable Web access.
• Create a rule in MDaemon that filters content.
• Limit access to a Web server by using the MDaemon IP screening feature.
• Enable relay control in MDaemon.
• Enable account and Domain Name System (DNS) verification in MDaemon.
• Restrict an account.
• Enable forwarding for an e-mail account.
• Configure the list server feature in Mdaemon.

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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).

• 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).