MCTS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Configuration

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A Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Configuration certification validates the skills to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and focuses on deploying, monitoring, administering customizing, securing, and configuring network infrastructure for Windows SharePoint Services. The successful candidate has the skills to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and has a general understanding of Internet Security and Acceleration Server and network load balancing for applications.

How to earn your MCTS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Configuration certification

Candidates seeking the MCTS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Configuration credential must pass one exam that focuses on the following:

• Monitoring and configuring security settings
• Administering Windows SharePoint Services
• Managing customization
• Configuring network infrastructure for Windows SharePoint Services

Required exams (one exam required)

Exam 70-631: TS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring

Audience profile

A typical candidate for this exam has a minimum of one year of experience in configuring Windows SharePoint related technologies. In addition this exam will assume that the candidate is proficient in configuring the following technologies.

• Web administration/Internet Information Services 6.0
• General Windows Server 2003 directory administration
• General networking infrastructure
• General knowledge of Windows SharePoint Server 2007
• General understanding of Microsoft .NET 2.0 as it relates to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• General understanding of Internet Security and Acceleration Server
• Network load-balancing for applications
• Administering SQL Server 2000 or 2005 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• General security/authentication practices
• Back-up/restoration of data

Credit toward certification

When you pass Exam 70-631 TS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring, you complete the requirements for the following certification:

• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring

Skills being measured