Microsoft Certified IT Professional/Exam 70-444
- Troubleshoot physical server performance.
- Troubleshoot instance performance.
- Troubleshoot database performance.
- Troubleshoot and maintain query performance.
- Identify poorly performing queries.
- Analyze a query plan to detect inefficiencies in query logic.
- Maintain and optimize indexes.
- Enforce appropriate stored procedure logging and output.
- Troubleshoot concurrency issues
- Diagnose causes of failures. Failure types include database failures, physical server failures, and SQL Server service failures.
- Plan for fault-tolerance.
- Recover from a failure of SQL Server 2005.
- Recover from a database disaster.
- Plan a strategy.
- Restore a database.
- Configure logins.
- Recover lost data.
- Maintain server and database scripts for recoverability.
- Salvage good data from a damaged database by using restoration techniques.
- Define and implement monitoring standards for a physical server.
- Establish the thresholds for performance.
- Establish the baselines for performance.
- Define which types of information to monitor on the physical server.
- Define traces.
- Set alerts.
- Set notifications.
- Choose the appropriate information to monitor.
- Create and implement a maintenance strategy for database servers.
- Create a job dependency diagram.
- Manage the maintenance of database servers.
- Design a database maintenance plan.
- Design a strategy to manage Reporting Services.
- Design and manage SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages.
- Construct complex SSIS packages.
- Design security for accessing packages.
- Restart failed packages.
- Troubleshoot or debug packages.
- Deploy and move packages.
- Schedule package execution.
- Move packages to different servers.
- Enforce data quality according to business requirements.
- Establish the business requirements for quality.
- Create queries to inspect the data.
- Use checksum.
- Clean the data.
- Design data integrity.
- Reconcile data conflicts.
- Make implicit constraints explicit.
- Assign data types to control characteristics of data stored in a column.
- Design a strategy to manage data across linked servers.
- Set up and manage linked servers.
- Design a strategy to manage replication.
- Design alerts.
- Design a maintenance plan to monitor health, latency, and failures.
- Verify replication.
- Design a plan to resolve replication conflicts.
- Design a plan to modify agent profiles.
- Tune replication configuration.
- Optimize a database control strategy to meet business requirements.
- Verify that database change control procedures are being followed.
- Identify all database objects related to a particular deployment.
- Perform a security audit of the existing security infrastructure based on the security plan.
- Analyze the physical server security.
- Compare the existing security infrastructure to business and regulatory requirements.
- Identify variations from the security design.
- Maintain a server-level security strategy.
- Design a strategy to audit Windows account permissions.
- Design a strategy to audit SQL Server service access.
- Maintain a strategy to assign the appropriate minimum level of privileges.
- Maintain an encryption strategy that meets business requirements.
- Design a strategy to apply service packs and security updates.
- Configure the surface area.
- Maintain a user-level security strategy.
- Verify the existence and enforcement of account policies.
- Verify SQL Server login authentication.
- Verify permissions on SQL Server roles and accounts.
- Prepare for respond to threats and attacks.
- Prepare for and respond to SQL Server injection attacks.
- Prepare for and respond to denial-of-service attacks that are specific to SQL Server.
- Prepare for and respond to virus and worm attacks that are specific to SQL Server.
- Prepare for and respond to internal attacks that are specific to SQL Server.
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