Exam 70-450: Designing, Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administrative Solution Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008

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About the Microsoft exam 70-450

Microsoft’s 70-450 exam is appropriate for those candidates who have more than three year experience of administering databases in an enterprise-level organization and designing, deploying, optimizing, maintaining, and supporting database service life cycle . Designing, Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administrative Solution Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 exam tests your ability to make appropriate design and technology choice considerations for your SQL Server 2008 installations.

You will earn credit toward the Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Administrator 2008 certification after passing this exam. If you would like to know more about the MCITP: SQL Server 2008 Database Administrative Solution test, please visit the Microsoft exam 70-450 page.

Exam 70-450 measures your ability in designing a migration, consolidation, and upgrade strategy, designing an encryption strategy, select high-availability technologies based on business requirements, design a management automation strategy, and Design a data compression strategy, etc.

What to expect in the MCITP: SQL Server 2008 Database Administrative Solution exam?

Exam 70-450 consists of Multiple Choice, Hot Area, Drag and Drop, Build list and reorder, and Build a Tree questions. The test can be adaptive and simulation questions might be asked. There are no Case study type questions. You will be required to attempt approximately 55 questions in 120 minutes. You need to score 700 out of 1000 to pass the exam.

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• Design a failover clustering solution
• Design a maintenance strategy for database servers
• Design a management automation strategy

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• Designing a SQL Server Instance and a Database Solution – This objective explains the basics of designing SQL Server instances, designing physical database and object placement, designing a migration, consolidation, and upgrade strategy, etc.
• Designing a Database Server Security Solution – This objective includes Design instance-level security configurations, Design database, schema, and object security parameters, Design a security policy and an audit plan, etc.
• Designing a Database Solution for High Availability – This objective includes Design database mirroring, Design a high-availability solution that is based on replication, Select high-availability technologies based on business requirements, etc.
• Designing a Backup and Recovery Solution – This objective includes Design a backup strategy, Design a recovery strategy, Design a recovery test plan, etc.
• Designing a Monitoring Strategy – This objective includes Design a monitoring solution at the operating system level, Design a monitoring solution at the instance level, Design a solution to monitor performance and concurrency, etc.
• Designing a Strategy to Maintain and Manage Databases – This objective includes Design a solution to govern resources, Design policies by using Policy-Based Management, Design a data compression strategy, etc.
• Designing a Strategy for Data Distribution – This objective includes Administer SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages, Design a strategy to use linked servers, Design a replication strategy for data distribution, etc.

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