1. Chapter 1 About the MCSE Exams

   1. The MCSE 2000 Program

   2. MCSE 2000 Core Exams

   3. The Examination Process

   4. Continuing Education

2. Windows 2000 Professional

   1. Chapter 2 Exam Overview

      1. Areas of Study

   2. Chapter 3 Study Guide

      1. Windows 2000 Basics
      2. Installing Windows 2000 Professional
      3. Configuring Windows 2000 Professional
      4. Managing Disk Storage
      5. Managing Network Components
      6. Administration and Security
      7. Optimization and Troubleshooting

   3. Chapter 4 Suggested Exercises

      1. Installing Windows 2000 Professional
      2. Configuring Windows 2000 Professional
      3. Managing Disk Storage
      4. Managing Network Components
      5. Administration and Security
      6. Optimization and Troubleshooting

   4. Chapter 5 Practice Tests

      1. Comprehensive Test
      2. Case Study
      3. Answers

   5. Chapter 6 Highlighter's Index

      1. Windows 2000 Basics
      2. Installing Windows 2000 Professional
      3. Configuring Windows 2000 Professional
      4. Managing Disk Storage
      5. Managing Network Components
      6. Administration and Security
      7. Optimization and Troubleshooting

3. Windows 2000 Server

   1. Chapter 7 Exam Overview

      1. Objectives

   2. Chapter 8 Study Guide

      1. Windows 2000 Server Basics
      2. Installing Windows 2000 Server
      3. Managing Disk Storage
      4. Windows 2000 Active Directory
      5. Managing Network Components
      6. Administration and Security
      7. Optimization and Troubleshooting

   3. Chapter 9 Suggested Exercises

      1. Installing Windows 2000 Server
      2. Creating User Accounts and Groups
      3. Creating a Group Policy and User Profiles
      4. Creating a Dynamic Disk
      5. Using the Task Manager

   4. Chapter 10 Practice Tests

      1. Test Questions
      2. Case Study
      3. Answers

   5. Chapter 11 Highlighter's Index

      1. Windows 2000 Editions
      2. Windows 2000 Architecture
      3. Windows 2000 Installation Files
      4. Windows 2000 Server Hardware Requirements
      5. Windows NT Upgrade Order
      6. Encrypting Filesystem Keys
      7. Windows Backup Types
      8. Windows 2000 Security Groups
      9. Kerberos Terms
      10. SNMP Tools

4. Active Directory

   1. Chapter 12 Exam Overview

      1. Objectives

   2. Chapter 13 Study Guide

      1. Introduction to Active Directory
      2. Installing Active Directory
      3. Configuring Active Directory
      4. DNS for Active Directory
      5. Directory Maintenance and Replication
      6. Remote Installation Service (RIS)
      7. Active Directory Security
      8. Active Directory Maintenance
      9. Troubleshooting Active Directory

   3. Chapter 14 Suggested Exercises

      1. Installing Active Directory
      2. Testing DNS
      3. Configuring Active Directory
      4. Organizational Units
      5. Managing Objects
      6. Group Policy Objects
      7. Remote Installation Service
      8. Security
      9. Backup and Recovery

   4. Chapter 15 Practice Tests

      1. Test Questions
      2. Case Study
      3. Answers

   5. Chapter 16 Highlighter's Index

      1. Site Replication
      2. Organizational Unit Properties
      3. Accounts
      4. Moving Objects
      5. Windows 2000 Permissions
      6. Group Policy Objects
      7. Managing Applications
      8. DNS Zones
      9. Active Directory Replication
      10. Operations Master Roles
      11. Operations Master Failure
      12. Troubleshooting RIS

5. Network Infrastructure

   1. Chapter 17 Exam Overview

      1. Areas of Study

   2. Chapter 18 Study Guide

      1. Network Protocols
      2. Managing TCP/IP
      3. IP Routing
      4. IP Security (IPSec)
      5. Hostname Resolution
      6. NetBIOS Name Resolution
      7. NetWare Connectivity
      8. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
      9. Remote Access Server (RAS)
      10. NAT (Network Address Translation)
      11. Certificate Services
      12. Monitoring Network Performance

   3. Chapter 19 Suggested Exercises

      1. Installing and Configuring TCP/IP
      2. Configuring IP Routing
      3. Managing IPSec
      4. Configuring Name Resolution
      5. Setting up NetWare Connectivity
      6. Installing and Configuring DHCP
      7. Installing and Managing Remote Access
      8. Installing and Using NAT
      9. Installing and Using Certificate Services
      10. Monitoring the Network

   4. Chapter 20 Practice Tests

      1. Comprehensive Test
      2. Case Study
      3. Answers

   5. Chapter 21 Highlighter's Index

      1. Network Protocols
      2. TCP/IP
      3. IP Routing
      4. IPSec (IP Security)
      5. Name Resolution
      6. NetWare Connectivity
      7. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
      8. Remote Access
      9. NAT (Network Address Translation)
      10. Certificate Services
      11. Network Monitoring

6. Designing Active Directory

   1. Chapter 22 Exam Overview

      1. Objectives

   2. Chapter 23 Study Guide

      1. Directory Services Overview
      2. Analyzing the Company
      3. Active Directory Architecture

   3. Chapter 24 Suggested Exercises

      1. Domain Naming
      2. Company IT Mapping
      3. Trust Relationships
      4. DNS
      5. Site Replication

   4. Chapter 25 Practice Tests

      1. Test Questions
      2. Case Study
      3. Answers

   5. Chapter 26 Highlighter's Index

      1. Analyzing Your Company Evaluation Notes
      2. IT Structure Types
      3. Reasons for a Multiple Domain Structure
      4. Security Groups
      5. External Trusts
      6. DNS Naming Conventions
      7. Site Level Traffic Optimization

7. Designing Network Infrastructure

   1. Chapter 27 Exam Overview

      1. Areas of Study

   2. Chapter 28 Study Guide

      1. Designing a Network Infrastructure
      2. Designing TCP/IP Networks
      3. Designing DHCP Services
      4. Designing Name Resolution Services
      5. Designing Internet Connectivity
      6. Designing Routing and Remote Access

   3. Chapter 29 Suggested Exercises

      1. Designing a Network Infrastructure
      2. TCP/IP and DHCP Design
      3. Name Resolution Design
      4. Internet Connectivity
      5. Routing and Remote Access

   4. Chapter 30 Practice Tests

      1. Comprehensive Test
      2. Case Study
      3. Answers

   5. Chapter 31 Highlighter's Index

      1. TCP/IP Design
      2. DHCP Design
      3. Name Resolution Design
      4. Internet Connectivity
      5. Routing and Remote Access

8. Designing Security

   1. Chapter 32 Exam Overview

      1. Areas of Study

   2. Chapter 33 Study Guide

      1. Planning Network Security
      2. Designing Basic Security
      3. Encrypted Filesystem (EFS)
      4. Designing Auditing
      5. Securing Network Services
      6. Designing Secure Connectivity
      7. Planning IP Security

   3. Chapter 34 Suggested Exercises

      1. Planning Network Security
      2. Designing Basic Security
      3. Encrypting Filesystem (EFS)
      4. Designing Auditing
      5. Securing Network Services
      6. Designing Secure Connectivity
      7. Planning IP Security

   4. Chapter 35 Practice Tests

      1. Comprehensive Test
      2. Case Study
      3. Answers

   5. Chapter 36 Highlighter's Index

      1. Planning Network Security
      2. Designing Basic Security
      3. Encrypting Filesystem (EFS)
      4. Designing Auditing
      5. Securing Network Services
      6. Designing Secure Connectivity
      7. Planning IP Security

1. Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal appearing on the cover of MCSE in a Nutshell: The Windows 2000 Exams is an African elephant (Elephas maximus). Elephants are the world's largest terrestrial animals, striking not only for their great size (4 tons), but also their trunk. The trunk is used for both smell and touch, as well as for picking things up and as a snorkel when swimming. The most important use of the trunk is obtaining food and water. Another distinguishing feature is the tusks, modified incisors of durable ivory, for which man has hunted the elephant nearly to extinction. Like right- or left-handed people, elephants favor one tusk.

Elephants spend most of their day—up to 17 hours;mdash;preparing and eating their food, which consists of several hundred pounds per day of bamboo, bark, grass, roots, wood, and other vegetation. They generally sleep standing up for short periods. Elephants also take frequent baths in water or mud, and, when the weather is hot, fan themselves with their ears. They can trumpet loudly, and also often make a kind of relaxed purring or rumbling noise.

The lifespan of an elephant is about 40 to 50 years, though a few live into their sixties. They have keen hearing and can learn verbal commands, increasing their popularity as circus stars and beasts of burden. Elephants have also been used in war, mostly notably by the Carthaginian general Hannibal.

Elephant cemeteries, where old and sick elephants congregate to die, are a myth. Experiments have proved that they are not afraid of mice, but do fear rabbits and some dogs. They have no natural enemies apart from man. Catherine Morris was the production editor, and Paulette Miley was the copyeditor for MCSE in a Nutshell: The Windows 2000 Exams. Linley Dolby was the proofreader. Rachel Wheeler, Claire Cloutier, and Catherine Morris provided quality control. Pamela Murphy wrote the index. Interior composition was done by Molly Shangraw, Gabe Weiss, and Catherine Morris.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is from The Illustrated Natural History: Mammalia. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using the ITC Garamond Condensed font. Melanie Wang and David Futato designed the interior layout based on a series design by Alicia Cech. Anne-Marie Vaduva implemented the design in FrameMaker 5.5.6. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano using Macromedia FreeHand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5. This colophon was written by Nancy Kotary.