Microsoft ISA Server 2000 Part 2: Enterprise Deployment Considerations

Outline

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

Description

This is the final course in a five part series that covers designing a network infrastructure to support Commerce Server 2000, describing the infrastructure components including Web Farms, staging servers and development servers, and covering network performance improvement by using switches to connect servers. The course focuses on providing network security, including configuring firewalls and securing Commerce Server files and resources. Topics covering the administration of Commerce Server 2000, including performance monitoring, resource maintenance, and Data Warehousing are also covered.

Audience

The intended audience for this course includes Professional Web Developers. These developers will have experience creating Web sites by using Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic Scripting Edition or JavaScript, data connectivity, client-server concepts and technologies (Internet Information services (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server (tm)) and COM+. Suggest knowledge of Web development, databases, datawarehousing, VB, COM and e-commerce concepts. This course prepares learners for exam 70-234. In addition, learners should have taken the first four parts of this series 74116 thru 74119.

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Identify features of Web Farms.
• Add a server to a Web Farm to increase capacity.
• Match Commerce Server 2000 support servers with their descriptions.
• Configure SQL Server to use mixed mode for authentication.
• Create a new SQL Server login account.
• Create a new SQL Server data source to store user profile information.
• Identify guidelines for monitoring performance.
• Identify functions of SQL Profiler.
• Start the Predictor resource by using Commerce Server Manager.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Commerce Server 2000 Infrastructure

• Identify features of Web Farms.
• Add a server to a Web Farm to increase capacity.
• Match Commerce Server 2000 support servers with their descriptions.
• Identify features of staging servers and development servers.
• Identify features of caching devices.
• Identify features and functions of switches.

Unit 2: Designing Commerce Server 2000 Security

• Configure SQL Server to use mixed mode for authentication.
• Create a new SQL Server login account.
• Create a new SQL Server data source to store user profile information.
• Create an Active Directory data source to store user accounts.
• Match firewall design types used in Commerce Server 2000 networks with their features.
• Identify features of connection strings.
• Restrict access to Commerce Server 2000 Component Object Model (COM) objects by using Registry Editor.
• Identify features of Business Desk module security.
• Match Commerce Server 2000 files with their associated risks.
• Install a server certificate on a Web server.
• Enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) on a Business Desk file.
• Identify considerations for configuring firewall ports.
• Configure an application to use a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection.

Unit 3: Administering Commerce Server 2000

• Identify guidelines for monitoring performance.
• Identify functions of SQL Profiler.
• Start the Predictor resource by using Commerce Server Manager.
• Configure the Predictor resource to list models and model configurations in databases other than the Commerce Server Data Warehouse.
• Identify features of analysis models.
• Identify features of data warehousing.
• Identify guidelines for extending the logical schema of a Data Warehouse.
• Identify features of Data Warehouse analysis reports.
• Identify features of the Data Warehouse Meta Model.
• Configure the Data Warehouse resource so that Data Warehouse works with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Identify features of a Structured Query Language (SQL) table for importing data.
• Identify features of the Direct Mailer database.
• Identify features of Data Transformation Services (DTS) packages.
• Identify guidelines for configuring Web server log files.
• Match Data Transformation Services (DTS) tasks with their functions.
• Create a Data Transformation Services (DTS) package in Commerce Server Manager.
• Identify guidelines for importing data by using a Data Transformation Services (DTS) package.
• Identify considerations for scheduling data deletion from the Data Warehouse.
• Import catalog data to a Data Warehouse.
• Import campaign data to a Data Warehouse.
• Import transaction data to a Data Warehouse.
• Import user profile data to a Data Warehouse.
• Identify features of dynamic and static reports.
• Configure the Report preparation task to update data used by reports.

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).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and XXMB 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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