Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator – MCSA

 

Why get certified?
Earning a Microsoft Certification not only validates your expertise with Microsoft products and platforms, but also demonstrates your skills and capabilities to current and future employers and peers.

Your pride in passing your exam is just the beginning. The benefits you receive as part of the Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) community can help you:

• Show off your skills and Microsoft expertise
• Become the office hero or outstanding new hire
• Make connections around the world—two million of them, to be exact

Show off your skills and Microsoft expertise
After earning your Microsoft credential, you have access to a suite of online tools - an official transcript, logos and certificates, your own landing page on Microsoft.com, and more - that help you show off your unique set of achievements to peers, clients, and employers.

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Become the office hero or outstanding new hire
Your benefits include technical resources that can help you save the day (or the project), and career and certification planning resources to get you closer to a promotion or new job.

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Make connections around the world—two million of them, to be exact
As a Microsoft Certified Professional, you will have community opportunities and tools to put you in touch with certified professionals around the world for networking, brainstorming, or just good times.

The Australian College of Information Technology Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) Course
The Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) certification helps you advance your career by ensuring that you have the skills you need to manage and troubleshoot network environments running on the Windows operating system. The course is taught using only CompTIA authorised courseware and Microsoft Official Courses. The course modules are as follows:

5117A Installing, Configuring, Troubleshooting, and Maintaining Windows Vista®

•   Module 1: Installing, Upgrading and Deploying Windows Vista
•   Module 2: Troubleshooting Windows Vista Startup
•   Module 3: Configuring and Troubleshooting Hardware and Devices
•   Module 4: Configuring and Troubleshooting Networking
•   Module 5: Configuring and Troubleshooting Security
•   Module 6: Maintaining and Optimising Windows Vista

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5116A Configuring Windows Vista Mobile Computing and Applications

•   Module 1: Maintaining and Optimizing Windows Vista Systems
•   Module 2: Configuring Windows Vista Media Applications
•   Module 3: Configuring Windows Vista Productivity Applications
•   Module 4: Configuring Mobile Computers
•   Module 5: Configuring Tablet PC Settings
•   Module 6: Networking Mobile Computers

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2273B Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment

•   Module 1: Introduction to Administering Accounts and Resources
•   Module 2: Managing User and Computer Accounts
•   Module 3: Managing Groups
•   Module 4: Managing Access to Resources
•   Module 5: Managing Access to Objects in Organizational Units
•   Module 6: Implementing Group Policy
•   Module 7: Managing the User Environment by Using Group Policy
•   Module 8: Implementing Administrative Templates and Audit Policy
•   Module 9: Preparing to Administer a Server
•   Module 10: Preparing to Monitor Server Performance
•   Module 11: Managing Data Storage
•   Module 12: Managing Disaster Recovery
•   Module 13: Software Maintenance Using Windows Server Update Services
•   Module 14: Securing Windows Server 2003
•   Self-Study Module A: Implementing Printing
•   Self-Study Module B: Managing Printing
•   Self-Study Module C: Monitoring Server Performance
•   Self-Study Module D: Maintaining Device Drivers
•   Self-Study Module E: Managing Disks

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2277C Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Services

•   Module 1: Allocating IP Addressing by Using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
•   Module 2: Managing and Monitoring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
•   Module 3: Resolving Names
•   Module 4: Resolving Host Names by Using Domain Name System (DNS)
•   Module 5: Integrating Domain Name System and Active Directory
•   Module 6: Managing and Monitoring Domain Name System (DNS)
•   Module 7: Resolving NetBIOS Names by Using Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
•   Module 8: Configuring Routing by Using Routing and Remote Access
•   Module 9: Securing Network Traffic by Using IPSec and Certificates
•   Module 10: Configuring Network Access
•   Module 11: Managing and Monitoring Network Access

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