MCITP Self Paced Training Kit: Optimizing & Maintaining a Database Administration Solution Using SQL Server 2005

Description

EXAM PREP GUIDE

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-444 - and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

* Monitor and troubleshoot queries, databases, and servers
* Help defend against injection attacks, denial of service attacks, worms, and viruses
* Manage security strategies and perform audits
* Detect and resolve data conflicts
* Diagnose faults and recover from database failures and disasters
* Optimize database availability with failover clustering, database mirroring, log shipping, and replication
* Customize a maintenance strategy and automate routine tasks
* Build, debug, and deploy SQL Server Integration Services packages

PRACTICE TESTS

Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers - including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

Your training kit includes:

* 15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/11. Details inside.
* Official self-paced study guide.
* Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
* 400+ practice and review questions.
* Case scenarios, practice exercises, and best practices.
* 180-day evaluation version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.
* Fully searchable eBook of this guide.

CONTENTS:

DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Troubleshooting Database and Server PerformanceChapter 2: Analyzing QueriesChapter 3: Failure DiagnosisChapter 4: Disaster RecoveryChapter 5: Performance MonitoringChapter 6: Database MaintenanceChapter 7: SQL Server Integration ServicesChapter 8: Design Data IntegrityChapter 9: Business RequirementsChapter 10: ReplicationChapter 11: Security StrategiesChapter 12: Detecting and Responding to AttacksAppendixGlossaryAnswersSystem RequirementsAbout the AuthorsExam 70-444: PRO: Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administration Solution by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005