Exam 70-663 Skills Measured

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The 70-663 mcitp exam focuses on a wide range of tasks and situations in Exchange Server 2010 from planning and installation to deployment and security. The following are the categories that the exam is split into, along with the percentages of the exam they represent. You’ll notice that the sections are fairly equal in representation in the exam, so keep that in mind when training and studying.

Planning the Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure (20%)
Deploying the Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure (20%)
Designing and Deploying Security for the Exchange Organization (20%)
Designing and Deploying Exchange Server 2010 Availability and Recovery (21%)
Designing and Deploying Messaging Compliance, System Monitoring, and Reporting (19%)

Now let’s go over each of these in more detail.
1. Planning the Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure (20%)
The planning section of the exam is based on, as the title suggests, design and planning. You’ll need to understand how to design the installation, message routing, mailbox server roles, and client access. ...
... You will also go over planning for transition and coexistence which is something you’ll need to know for migrating from Exchange 2003 and 2007 to Exchange 2010; this includes consolidating existing exchange servers, message routing, public folders, etc.

Here are the specifics for this section, as listed on the Microsoft MCITP: Server Administrator Learning website:
Design the Exchange Server 2010 installation — define Exchange server physical locations, Exchange DNS requirements, SLA requirements, Active Directory site topologies as well as network topology, Exchange federation and more
Design message routing — this includes inter-site and intra-site hub routing, coordinating messaging topics between Exchange departments, CIO, security, and LOB providers within the enterprise, developing connectors between Exchange and other messaging applications, designing and deploying hub mail flow, Edge connectors/scoping, and much more
Design the mailbox server role — which includes knowing how to plan database sizing, design recipient, distribution group, and mailbox provisioning and deprovisioning policies, analyze and design ongoing infrastructure improvements due to increased capacity, performance, and requested features, etc
Design client access — for example local vs. remote access, mobile access policies, Outlook Anywhere, Web services, OWA, storage requirements, as well as planning the location and configuration of Client Access servers, the AutoDiscover implementation, Federated Sharing and more
Plan for transition and coexistence — which includes planning the consolidation of Exchange servers, intra-org and inter-org migration, decommission legacy environment, how to preserve the Windows 7 certificate ability to reply to a message and more