Officially, the University of Maryland requires a student to have passed CMIT265M and CMIT367 or have equivalent practical work experience and Permission of the Instructor. You are expected to be familiar with the workings of personal computers and have at least a basic idea of what data networking is and why it's useful. In addition, you should be familiar with installing and maintaining a Windows 2000 Server and clients.
(Designed to help prepare students to take Microsoft Certification Exam 70-217.) This course will introduce you to Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory and prepare you to plan, configure, and administer your Active Directory infrastructure. You will learn how to configure the Domain Name System (DNS) to manage name resolution, schema, and replication. You will also learn how to use Active Directory to centrally manage users, groups, shared folders, and network resources, and to administer the user environment and software with group policy. This course shows you how to implement and troubleshoot security in a directory services infrastructure, and monitor and optimize Active Directory performance. You also learn how to deploy Windows 2000 remotely using Remote Installation Services (RIS).
The syllabus for this course is located here: CMIT377 - Term 4 Syllabus - Ramstein Air Base, Germany
CMIT377 Course Materials are located here: Course Materials, Lectures Notes, and Project Files Downloading Area
Microsoft Corporation provides many, many resources for certification information. Try the link below.
Microsoft Training and Certification Web Site
The publisher of our textbook is Osborne Press. You can get more information about other technical books and updates to the software CD included with the textbook. Try the link below.
I have placed a Cramsession PDF file in the course materials section. It contains all the highlights and info for required test knowledge. I have added the Cramsession web site so you can query the AD testing section to see what others say about the difficulty of the test and it also has some useful study information. Try the links below.
All Microsoft Certification tests are administered by Thompson-Prometric corporation or Vue corporation. You can take them locally in Germany at a Prometric Testing Center or a Vue Testing Center. Try the links below. By the way, there is a testing site called Tri-X at Hohenecken, Germany which is within 5 miles of Ramstein Air Base. It is located near Vogelweh shopping complex.
Thompson-Prometric Testing Company Web Site
This link will take you to my favorite mapping web site. Just put in the country, zip code and city name and you will get complete driving instructions. Just so you know this class is being held near Kaiserslautern, Germany at Ramstein Air Base - Building 2116, room 6.
You can also find directions from the UMUC Europe web site.