"Storage Growth"
1- Evaluate the importance of measuring storage efficiency in an organization's storage system. Suggest the main approaches for measuring storage efficiently.
2- Analyze the challenges of reducing the power consumption of an organization's storage system. Recommend three (3) best practices for reducing power consumption in storage systems. Provide a rationale for your suggestions.
"Protecting The Sites
1- Imagine you are the Server Administrator for a large organization. You have the primary data center at the corporate office. You want to ensure that all major services are fault tolerant in most situations including any disasters that may occur at the primary site. Outline the general steps you would take to ensure that all services are redundant. Provide a rationale for your response.
2- Imagine while working for the same organization as mentioned above, the primary data center suffered a serious catastrophe and you need to restore the servers and services as soon as possible. Prioritize the servers and services in the order in which you would restore them. Provide a rationale for the order you have chosen.
"Securing IIS Services"
1- From the e-Activity, compare and contrast the different approaches used for ACL structure and the implications of "deny all" or "allow all" sequence placement.
2- Discuss how NTFS permissions can be used to configure Website security and the basic concepts related to configuring certificates.
"Publishing Multiple IIS Websites"
1- Imagine that you are managing 20 Websites on a single Windows 2008 Web Server. For security, reliability, and performance reasons, you need to prevent problems occurring in one Web application from causing issues with others. One of the Web applications was originally designed for IIS 6.0.
a- IIS7 on a single server can host multiple separate Websites simultaneously using one of these three binding solutions: IP address hosting, port number hosting, and host header hosting. Select the method that you would use if your main concern is securing your Website. Explain your selection.
B- Analyze how you can minimize the risks associated with Web application defects affecting other Web applications. Choose one method by which you can support the IIS 6.0 application.
"IIS 7 Application Hosting"
1- Explain how you would plan an IIS7 application hosting and what you would take into consideration to tailor it to different enterprise needs. Define an application pool and explain the IIS worker process and some of the advantages and disadvantages you would consider differently for a large or small enterprise.
2- From the first e-Activity, discuss the uses and advantages for an enterprise utilizing an SMTP server.
"Apache HTTP Server"
1- Apache HTTP server, a competitor to IIS, is the most popular Web server on the Internet hosting about half of the Internet's Websites. Suggest three reasons why it is so popular. Of the three reasons you mentioned above, discuss what you believe is the most important reason for that success and state why.
2- Envision that you are a systems administrator managing five different Web servers for your company. Each Web server supports multiple applications. Your general responsibilities include ensuring reliability and performance for all Web applications. In addition, you must simplify administration tasks for the servers. From the second e-Activity, decide which you would choose to deploy on your servers: IIS or Apache. Support your decision.