Preface

Welcome to Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide!

This book is designed to give you a thorough understanding of fundamental installation skills and vital services in Windows Server 2016 to prepare you for Exam 70-740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016, which is part of the MCSA Windows Server 2016 Certification and MCSE Core Infrastructure Certification. The book will start with the installation of Windows Server 2016. Appropriate requirements and usage scenarios will be covered, followed by Windows Server Imaging and Deployment, where updates and image management will be covered. Next, configuration, implementation, and storage management will be described, after which virtualization with Hyper-V and virtualization building blocks in Windows Server 2016 will be explained. Afterward, Windows Containers will be introduced, and, subsequently, how to support business-critical workloads with high availability will be covered. Finally, implementing highly-available solutions with clustering will be explained, along with an outline of monitoring and maintaining server environments.