Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) certification is a certification program intended for people who seek entry-level jobs in an IT (information technology) environment. MCSA is a prerequisite for more advanced Microsoft certifications. The MCSA certification is designed to ensure proficiency and skills to use various Microsoft products, programs, and solutions. The MCSA certification is a prerequisite for more advanced Microsoft certifications. The MCSA certification is designed to ensure proficiency and skills to use various Microsoft products, programs, and solutions.Some of topics covered in the module are install, upgrade, and migrate servers and workloads, create, manage, and maintain images for deployment, implement server storage, install and configure Hyper-V, configure virtual machine (VM) settings, configure Hyper-V storage & networking, deploy windows containers, manage windows containers, implement high availability & disaster recovery options in Hyper-V, implement failover clustering, configure disks and volumes, implement data deduplication etc.
The next module explains networking with windows server 2016 defining important topics like implement domain name system (DNS)(15-20%), implement DHCP and IPAM (25-30%), implement network connectivity & remote access solutions, implement core and distributed network solutions, implement an advanced network infrastructure. It is the module which explains certain topics like install & configure DNS servers,DHCP, implement network connectivity solutions, implement network policy server (NPS), implement IPv4 & IPv6 addressing, implement high performance network solutions and determine scenarios and requirements for implementing software defined networking (SDN).
The module named identity with windows server 2016 has sub-topics like install & configure active directory domain services (AD DS), manage & maintain AD DS, create & manage group policy, implement active directory certificate services (AD CS), implement identity federation & access solutions; consisting topics like install and configure domain controllers, create and manage active directory users and computers, configure service authentication and account policies, mainatain active directory, configure active directory in a complex enterprise environment, create & manage group policy objects (GPOs), configure group policy processing, configure group policy settings, configure group policy preferences, install and configure AD CS, manage certificates, install and configure active directory federation services (AD FS), implement web application proxy (WAP) and install and configure active directory rights management services (AD RMS).