Audience
The course addresses the training needs of system administrators, network designers, and IT consultants. This course also addresses the needs of IT professionals who want to become certified under the new Windows 2000 MCSE track. Completion of this course and the other Course CBT titles from this curriculum will prepare the learner for MCSE Exam 70-215: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Server.
Topics
Configuring Disks
- Setting up a Hard Disk
- Setting up a Basic Disk
- Setting up a Dynamic Disk
Configuring Disk Quotas
- Enabling Disk Quotas for Multiple Users
- Enabling Disk Quota for a Single User
- Monitoring Disk Space Usage
Providing Fault Tolerance
- Introducing RAID
- Implementing RAID--1
- Implementing RAID--5
Recovering and Troubleshooting Disks
- Recovering Disk Errors
- Troubleshooting Disks
- Troubleshooting Partitions and Volumes
- Troubleshooting Mirrored and Raid-5 Volumes
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe Windows 2000 storage types
- Differentiate between basic and dynamic storage in Windows 2000
- View disk information using the Disk Management utility
- Create partitions on a basic disk
- Upgrade a basic disk to a dynamic disk
- Create volumes on a dynamic disk
- Describe the disk quota feature of Windows 2000
- Configure disk quota for a group of users and individual users
- Log events when users exceed the disk quota limit
- Monitor disk quotas using Windows 2000 tools
- Describe the concept of fault tolerance
- Describe RAID
- Describe disk mirroring and disk duplexing
- Describe disk striping with parity
- Create mirrored volumes
- Create RAID level 5 volumes
