Candidates for this exam design and deploy
SharePoint Online and on-premise
SharePoint 2010 SP1 infrastructures. These candidates might be senior administrators who act as the technical lead over a team of administrators. Candidates should have a minimum of two years of experience administering, deploying, managing, monitoring, upgrading, migrating, and designing SharePoint solutions.
Candidates typically plan, design, and maintain:
• Physical topologies and services architecture
• Disaster recovery (backup and restore) and availability
• Infrastructure capacity (users, licenses, and topology)
• Farm performance and availability
• Migration, coexistence, and upgrade
• Security and compliance requirements
• Information architecture (interprets taxonomy)
• Information search strategy integration with other data sources (LOB, third-party products)
• Client application services deployment
Candidates should have a thorough understanding of the following:
• Windows PowerShell scripting
• Server availability and performance concepts (SQL mirroring, load balancing)
• Security concepts and authentication methods
• Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory administration
• Networking infrastructure services including DNS and IIS
In addition, candidates should be familiar with multitenant deployments.