| Welcome to MCSE Training Kit—Designing Highly Available Web Solutions with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Technologies. This book guides you through the process of designing Web sites that are highly available. You’ll learn how to design network topologies that support redundant components, connections, and services. You’ll also learn how to incorporate various clustering technologies into your design, including the Windows 2000 Cluster service, Network Load Balancing (NLB), and Microsoft Application Center 2000. This book also discusses how to determine the capacity requirements for your system and how to integrate directory services and applications into your design. Finally, you’ll learn how to plan your Web site’s security, how to monitor and audit your system, and how to plan a disaster recovery strategy.
Each chapter in this book is divided into lessons, activities, labs, and reviews. The lessons discuss the considerations that you should take into account when designing a specific aspect of your Web environment, and they provide a structure for evaluating the possible decisions that you must make when developing that design. The lessons also include examples of how the information within the lessons is applied. In addition, each lesson ends with a lesson summary. The activities and labs are designed to allow you to practice or demonstrate your understanding of the design objectives discussed in a chapter. The activities and labs include scenarios to help illustrate how your design decisions are applied to real-life situations. Each chapter ends with a set of review questions to test your knowledge of the chapter material. |
