Mastering the Certification Exam 70-243

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Contents
Certification Overview .......................................................................................................................... 3 Review the Skills Measured on the test. ............................................................................................... 3 Design and Plan System Center Configuration Manager Infrastructure (13%) .................................. 3 Manage Operating System Deployment (OSD) (12%)...................................................................... 4 Deploy Applications and Software Updates (14%) ........................................................................... 4 Manage Compliance Settings (11%) ................................................................................................ 5 Manage Sites (12%) ......................................................................................................................... 6 Manage Clients (14%) ..................................................................................................................... 6 Manage inventory (12%) ................................................................................................................. 7 Manage Reports and Queries (12%) ................................................................................................. 7 Learning Plans, Classroom Training and books ........................................................................................ 8 Quiz Questions self-assessment: .......................................................................................................... 9 Want more Information:......................................................................................................................16

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Certification Overview
The basics, where do I start learning and what to do. The first thing I will recommend is watching this video and performing this lab. This will give you a general idea for the rest of your learning.

TechNet Radio: Virtual Lab Insider - An Introduction to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Video! TechNet Virtual Lab: Introduction to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

Review the Skills Measured on the test. Exam 70-243: Administering and Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager For better outline of the materials that need to be reviewed in order to analyze the skills that will be measure on the test and the materials that we as students need to learn and make sure to understand to successfully pass the test. Design and Plan System Center Configuration Manager Infrastructure (13%) Plan System Center Configuration Manager Hierarchy and site system roles. This objective may include but is not limited to: pre-installation requirements, examining the current computing environment, CAS, primary and secondary sites, branch cache, designing and recommending System Center Configuration Manager server architecture, extending the Active Directory schema (DNS service records, WINS), managed providers, discovery methods, and planning migration Plan and configure security. This objective may include but is not limited to: PKI or self-signed certificates, HTTP or HTTPs implementation, NAP, FEP, and planning role-based security Define the Business Continuity Plan (BCP). This objective may include but is not limited to: disaster recovery and site maintenance Use the following information to pass this topic questions

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TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Hierarchy Install

Manage Operating System Deployment (OSD) (12%) Configure the OSD environment. This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring WDS, configuring PXE, configuring the VM build environment, and integrating with MDT Build and capture an image. This objective may include but is not limited to: updating base images, task sequences Deploy an image. This objective may include but is not limited to: new (bare metal) and upgrade images, VHD deployment Manage images. This objective may include but is not limited to: drivers, servicing Use the following information to pass this topic questions

Operating System Deployment in Configuration Manager TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: OSD Bare Metal

Deploy Applications and Software Updates (14%) Create an application. This objective may include but is not limited to: defining deployment types, deploying applications to RDSH, MSI, and App-V, and converting a package Deploy an application. This objective may include but is not limited to: user device affinity, compliance settings, Software Center, and task sequences Monitor application deployment. This objective may include but is not limited to: resolving issues, managing application distribution points, distribution point groups, Content Library, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), log files, and In Console Monitoring Manage the software library and application catalog.
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This objective may include but is not limited to: web portal configuration, work schedule, and definition of primary machines for users Create and monitor software updates. This objective may include but is not limited to: Automatic Deployment Rules (ADR), SSRS, creating update groups, creating deployment packages, log files, and In Console Monitoring Configure FEP clients by using System Center Configuration Manager. This objective may include but is not limited to: creating and managing policy by using Configuration Manager, configuring definitions within the client policy, exporting from Configuration Manager, choosing which template to use, and select exclusions Use the following information to pass this topic questions

Application Management in Configuration Manager Software Updates in Configuration Manager Endpoint Protection in Configuration Manager TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Advanced Software Distribution TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Basic Software Distribution TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Software Updates TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Endpoint Protection RC

Manage Compliance Settings (11%) Build a Configuration Item (CI). This objective may include but is not limited to: creating a CI, importing a CI, setting CI versioning, and remediation rules Create and monitor a baseline. This objective may include but is not limited to: importing a configuration pack, building a custom baseline, SSRS, log files, In Console Monitoring, deploying a baseline Use the following information to pass this topic questions

Compliance Settings in Configuration Manager Technical Reference for Log Files in Configuration Manager TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Settings Management

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Manage Sites (12%) Manage collections. This objective may include but is not limited to: setting maintenance windows, defining rules for collections (collection membership, query-based collections), collection-specific settings Monitor site health. This objective may include but is not limited to: SSRS, log files, In Console Monitoring, Toolkit Configure software updates. This objective may include but is not limited to: sync schedule, catalogs, products, WSUS, and superseded updates Manage site communications. This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring bandwidth settings for a site address, configuring senders, secondary sites (file-based replication, SQL replication paths), resolving DP connections Manage boundary groups. This objective may include but is not limited to: creating boundary groups, using boundary groups in more than one DP, client roaming, Internet-based clients Manage role-based security. This objective may include but is not limited to: security scopes, custom roles, cloned security roles and permissions Use the following information to pass this topic questions

Assets and Compliance in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Role Based Administration

Manage Clients (14%) Deploy clients. This objective may include but is not limited to: GPO, WSUS, logon scripts, manual, client push, OSD task sequence, monitoring client health
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Manage mobile devices. This objective may include but is not limited to: enrolling mobile devices, Exchange Connector, AMT enrollment point (out-of-band management), and wiping mobile devices Manage client agent settings. This objective may include but is not limited to: desired configuration settings, mobile device client agent, NAP client agent, configuring power management, configuring remote control agent, hardware inventory agent, software inventory agent, software metering agent, advertised programs agent, computer agent Use the following information to pass this topic questions

Deploying Clients for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Managing Clients

Manage inventory (12%) Manage hardware inventory. This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring MOF, export and import settings, enabling or disabling WMI classes, extending hardware inventory to other client assets, WMI or registry reporting Manage software inventory. This objective may include but is not limited to: standardized vendor name, list of tracked inventory, report inventory data, asset intelligence, software metering (enable or disable rules, report software metering results) Monitor inventory data flow. This objective may include but is not limited to: client-to-site, site-to-site Use the following information to pass this topic questions

Inventory in Configuration Manager

Manage Reports and Queries (12%) Build queries. This objective may include but is not limited to: console queries, WQL, sub-selects Create reports.
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This objective may include but is not limited to: cloning and modifying reports, creating custom reports, import and export reports Manage SSRS. This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring security, configuring caching, configuring subscriptions Use the following information to pass this topic questions

Reporting in Configuration Manager

Additional Labs good to review to pass this test:

TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Application Management TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Content Management TechNet Virtual Lab: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Migrating from Configuration Manager 2007 to Configuration Manager 2012

Now that we have review the skills that the test will measure, what you guys need to do is ensure that you understand all this skills and go ahead and take the test, if you dont pass the test on the first shot not feel bad about it just remember that is a good opportunity for you to review the content of the test and come back and read or practice what you need to successfully pass the test. If you need to have an official learning materials contact your Local Microsoft Learning Center for the following courses. Learning Plans, Classroom Training and books

10748A: Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (3 Days) 10747A: Administering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (5 Days) Download and read the sample chapters of Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Chapter 3 Migrating from Configuration Manager 2007 Chapter 7 Application Deployment

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Quiz Questions self-assessment:

I have included 30 Questions on this manual for us to review during our learning time, to ensure we have learn and know some of the skills that will be measure on the test. Like I mention early on this e-book you need to know the concepts and more important apply them into practice, thats why each of the labs have been very important. This Quiz questions are coming from the Quiz for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, for a complete list of questions visit http://quizapp.cloudapp.net/default.aspx?quiz=Configmgr2012. 1. Q. Can you use the Exchange Server connector to find which mobile devices are connecting to your Exchange Online Services? A. Yes New in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, the Exchange server connector allows you to find and manage devices that connect to Exchange Server (onPremise or hosted) by using the Exchange ActiveSync protocol. 2. Q. Which of the following are stored in the content library? Chose all that Apply. A. Software Updates, Packages and Applications The content library in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager store source files to deploy software updates, packages, applications, drivers and images for operating system deployment, and so on. The content library provides a single instance store for content files on the site server and distribution points. Distribution point groups provide a logical grouping of distribution points for content distribution, but they are not stored in the content library. 3. Q. Which of the following in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager are Changes in primary sites since Configuration Manager 2007? A. They can support more clients, they cannot be tiered below other primary sites and they participate in database replication. Primary sites in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager can support more clients, do not support child primary sites and participate in database replication. Only secondary sites in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager support SQL Server Express. 4. Q. Now System Center 2012 Configuration Manager uses Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Builder 2.0 as the exclusive authoring and editing tool for reports, must you first install Report Builder 2.0 before you can create or modify Reports? A. No

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Report Builder 2.0 is automatically installed when you create or modify a report for the first time. 5. Q. Has the CCM Folder for client-related files (such as the client cache and log files) changed since Configuration Manager 2007? A. Yes To support the new 64-bit client, the location of the CCM folder for client-related files (such as the client cache and log files) has changed from %windir%\system32 to %windir%. If you reference the CCM Folder these references for the new folder location for Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Clients. 6. Q. Does System Center 2012 Configuration Manager still have a central site? A. No The top-level Configuration Manager 2007 site in a multi-primary site hierarchy was known as a central site. In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager the Central Site is replaced by the central administration site. The central administration site is not a primary site at the top of the hierarchy, but rather a site that is used for reporting and to facilitate communication between primary sites in the hierarchy. 7. Q. Which of the following apply to role-based administration? Choose all that apply. A. You can create your own custom security roles, Administrative users see only the objects that they have permissions to manage, and you can audit administrative security actions. With role based administration, you create administrative users for the hierarchy and assign security to them one time only. There are built-in security roles to assign the typical administration tasks and you can create your own custom security roles. Administrative users see only the objects that they have permissions to manage and you can audit security actions. 8. Which of the following console features are new to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? Choose all that apply. A. Workspaces, Objects are hidden if you dont have permission to see them, browse and verify capability for many accounts and temporary nodes All these console features are new to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, in addition to the ribbon. Workspaces, such as Assets and Compliance workspace provide logical grouping of objects. Role-Based administration can hide objects from view. The browse and verify capability for accounts helps to eliminate misconfiguration and can be useful for troubleshooting scenarios. And temporary nodes are automatically created and selected as result of actions that you take and that do not display after you close the console. System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Page 10

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9. Which of the following changes apply to HTTPS client communication, which used to be known as native mode in Configuration Manager 2007? A. Mobile device clients must uses HTTPS, Internet Based clients must uses HTTPS, you no longer create and configure a site server signing certificate, SHA-2 is now supported. Site system roles in the same site can have different settings, for example, some management points are configured for HTTPS and some are configured for HTTP. Mobile Devices and client connections over the internet must use HTTPS. You dont have to specify a PKI certificate for document signing(the site server signing certificates in configuration manager 2007) because system center 2012 configuration manager automatically create this certificate(self-signed), in addition, many certificates now support SHA-2 in addition to SHA-1. . 10. Can you have a subset of computers in the site that are enabled for remote control? A. Yes These types of client settings are no longer restricted to the site. Instead System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has client settings that are applied at the hierarchy. If you need additional flexibility for groups of users or computers, configure custom client settings and assign them to collections. For Example, you can configure remote control to be available only on specified computers. 11. Can System Center 2012 Configuration Manager automatically upgrade a Configuration Manager 2007 client? A. Yes Configuration Manager can automatically upgrade Configuration Manager 2007 and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Clients to the latest System Center 2012 Configuration Manager version when they are below a version that you supply. 12. If you want to continue to manage mobile devices as you did in Configuration Manager 2007(Now referred to as mobile device legacy clients), which of the following are no longer supported? A. File collection, Settings and Multiple Management Points. Whereas Configuration Manager 2007 did not required PKI certificates, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager requires PKI certificates on the mobile device and the management point and distribution points. Multiple management points, file collection and setting management are not supported for mobile device legacy clients.

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13. Are there new options for software metering? A. No There are no significant changes for software metering in Configuration Manager since Configuration Manager 2007. 14. Can you create a collection without specifying a limiting collection? A. No In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, all collections must be limited to the membership of another collection. When you create a collection, you must specify a limiting collection. A collection is always a subset of its limiting collection. 15. Are there new maintenance tasks for asset intelligence? A. Yes The two new maintenance tasks are Check Application Title with Inventory Information and Summarize Installed Software Data. The first new maintenance tasks check that the software title reported in software inventory is reconciled with the software title in asset intelligence catalog. The second maintenance task provides the information displayed in Inventoried Software in the Asset Intelligence node in the assets and compliance workspace. 16. Does client status (used to be client status reporting) now support automatic remediation? A. Yes Typical client problems that are detected are automatically remediated. 17. Which of the following have changed for endpoint protection since Forefront endpoint protection 2010? A. Setup for Endpoint Protection, Installation of the Endpoint Protection, Installation of the Endpoint Protection Client, Notification of malware. You no longer run a separate setup program to install endpoint protection server, but instead select the endpoint protection as one of the available configuration manager site system roles. The endpoint protection dashboard is automatically integrated with configuration manager console. You now install endpoint protection client by using client settings and you can configure multiple malware alert types and subscriptions to notify you about these alerts by using email. 18. Do alerts in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager work the same way as alerts in Operations Manager? A. No System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Page 12

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Alerts are new In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and provide near real-time awareness of current site operations and conditions in the Configuration Manager console. Alerts are state based and automatically update when conditions change. System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Alerts are not similar to status messages in Configuration Manager, nor are they similar to alerts in other System Center products, such as those found in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. 19. Which of the following apply to application management in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? A. An application might have multiple deployment types, Deployments replace advertisements, and you can configure detection methods to determine whether a deployment type has already been installed on a device. An application might have multiple deployment types for example an application could contain deployment types for local installation of a software package, a virtual application package or a version of application for mobile devices. Deployments do replace Configuration Manager 2007 advertisements and you can configure detection methods or use a script to determine whether a deployment type has already been installed on a device. However, you can deploy applications to mobile devices that are enrolled by Configuration Manager. 20. Which of the following site system roles from Configuration Manager 2007 are removed from System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? A. Reporting Point, Server Locator Point and Branch Distribution Point All reports are now generated by the reporting services point. The functionality of the server locator point is moved to the management point. The functionality of the branch distribution point is now a BranchCache setting for an application deployment type and the package deployment. The state migration point remains the same in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, although the PXE service point is removed and this functionality is moved to the distribution point. 21. Which of the following now apply to compliance setting (used to be named desired configuration management in Configuration Manager 2007)? A. You can configure automatic remediation, you can deploy configuration baselines to users, Maintenance Windows are now supported, and conflict compliance rules are now detected. Compliance Settings now supports automatic remediation for WMI, the registry, scripts and all settings for the mobile devices that are enrolled by Configuration Manager. You can now deploy configuration baselines to users as well as to computers, maintenance windows are supported and conflicting compliance rules are now detected, however, wildcards for registry settings are no longer supported.

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22. Which of the following have changed for boundaries in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? A. Boundaries are no longer site-specific, boundaries must now be configured for at least one boundary group before clients can use them, and you no longer configure network connection speed of a boundary. Boundaries are no longer site specific, but defined once for the hierarchy and they are available at all sites in the hierarchy. Each boundary must be a member of a boundary group before a device on that boundary can identify and assigned site, or a content server such as distribution point. You can still use IP subnets to define a boundary but you no longer configure the network connection speed of each boundary. 23. Is there still a default management point in primary sites? A. No There is no longer a default management point at primary sites. Instead you can install multiple management points and the client will automatically select one, based on network location and capability (HTTPS or HTTP). This behavior support a higher number of clients in a single site and provides redundancy, which was previously obtained by user a network load balancing (NLB) cluster. 24. Can you now have more than none Internet-Based management point in a primary site? A. Yes You can now have more than one internet-based management point in a primary site, although you can specify only one when you configure clients for internet-based client management. When internet-based clients communicate with the specified internetbased management point, they will be given a list of all the internet-based management points in the site and then select one. 25. What does the fallback site do in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? A. Reassigns a client to a site during automatic site assignment if the client is not within a specified boundary group. New in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, if you specify a fallback site (an optional setting for the hierarchy) and then client is not in a boundary group, automatic site assignment succeeds and the client is assigned to the specified fallback site. 26. Which of the following are new for internet-based management in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? A. User Policies, Task Sequences, Using Microsoft Update to download software updates.

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New in Internet-based client management, User policies are supported when the Internet-based management point can authenticate the user by using Windows authentication; task sequences are supported for simple scripts and internet-based clients on the internet first try to download any required software updates from Microsoft Updates, rather than from an Internet-based distribution point in their assigned site. However, deploying and operating system over the internet is still not supported. 27. Which of the following is now true for operating system deployment in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? A. You can use the same task sequence media to deploy operating systems to computers anywhere in the hierarchy, the capture user state task sequence action and restore user state task sequence steps support new features from USMT version 4. Task sequence media was previously restricted to a site and capture user state task sequence action and the restore user state task sequence steps supports new features from the user state migration tool (USMT) version 4. However, there are no changes to the state migration point and instead, the functionality of the PXE service point from Configuration Manager 2007 is now moved to distribution points. SMSTrace is renamed to CMTrace is System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and this is now automatically added to all boot images that you add to the software library. 28. Which of the following are new for software updates in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? A. Software update groups, Automatic deployment rules, Software update alerts, Control over when a superseded software update is expired. Software update groups replaces update list that were used in Configuration Manager 2007 and you can now configure automatic deployment rules to automatically approve and deploy software updates. The new alerts functionality applies to software updates so that you can see important issues in the configuration manager console. You can now manager superseded software updates whereas in configuration manager 2007, they were automatically expired. Additionally, internet-based clients on the internet first try to download the software files from the Microsoft Update instead of from Internet-Based distribution points. 29. Which of the following CCMSetup options or Client.MSI properties are no longer supported? A. /native:[<native mode option>], SMSDIRECTORYLOOKUP=WINSPROMISCUOUS The /Native:[<native mode option>] CCMSetup option is no longer used and is replaced with /UsePKICert, SMSSIGNCERT is still used but now requires the exported self-signed certificate of the site server. SMSSLP remains supported, but only to specify the computer name of the management points. However, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Page 15

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SMSDIRECTORYLOOKUP=WINSPROMISCOUS is no longer supported. In Configuration Manager 2007, this setting allowed the client to use WINS to find a management point without verifying the management point self-signed certificate. 30. Have Active Directory schema extensions changed in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager since Configuration Manager 2007? A. No The Active Directory schema extensions for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager are unchanged from those used by Configuration Manager 2007. If you extended the schema for Configuration Manager 2007, you do not need to extend the schema again for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.

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