Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-247—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery configuring and deploying a private cloud using Microsoft System Center 2012 R2. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status,  focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSE level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Design and deploy System Center
• Configure System Center infrastructure
• Configure the fabric
• Configure System Center integration
• Configure and deploy virtual machines and services

Module 1: Designing For The Cloud

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Designing The Cloud

1.3 Reason For Using The Cloud

1.4 Choosing The Right Cloud Model

1.5 Designing Private Clouds

1.6 Overview Of Virtualization Components

1.7 Windows Server 2012 R2 And Hyper­ V

1.8 System Center 2012 R2­ Part 1

1.9 System Center 2012 R2­ Part 2

1.10 Deploying Highly Available Hyper­ V Hosts

Module 2: Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2

2.1 Overview Of Virtual Machine­ Part 1

2.2 Overview Of Virtual Machine ­Part 2

2.3 Deploying VMM

2.4 Configuring Role Based Access Control

2.5 Managing Hosts

2.6 Configuring Networking­ Part 1

2.7 Configuring Networking­ Part 2

2.8 Configuring Storage

Module 3: Deploying And Maintaining Fabric Resources

3.1 Extending And Maining The Cloud Infrastructure

3.2 Deploying Hyper ­VHost Servers­ Part 1

3.3 Deploying Hyper­ VHost Servers­ Part 2

3.4 Providing Patch Management For Fabric Resources­ Part 1

3.5 Providing Patch Management For Fabric Resources Part 2

Module 4: Building The Private Cloud

4.1 Creating Building Blocks For The Private Cloud­ Part 1

4.2 Creating Building Blocks For The Private Cloud­ Part ­2

4.3 Creating Virtual Machine Templates

4.4 Creating A Private Cloud

4.5 Creating And Deploying Applications ­Part 1

4.6 Creating And Deploying Applications ­­Part 2

4.7 Creating And Deploying Applications ­­Part 3

4.8 Creating And Configuring Services­ Part 1

4.9 Creating And Configuring Services­ ­Part 2

4.10 Configuring Access To The Private Cloud

Module 5: Monitoring And Optimizing The Private Cloud

5.1 Overview Of Operations Manager

5.2 Installing Operations Manager

5.3 Deploying Monitoring Agents

5.4 Configuring Access To Operations Manager

5.5 Creating And Configuring Management Packs

5.6 Configuring System Center Integration

5.7 Extending And Optimizing Monitoring­ Part 1

5.8 Extending And Optimizing Monitoring ­Part 2

Module 6: Planning And Deploying Service Management

6.1 Overview Of Service Manager

6.2 Deploying Service Manager

6.3 Service Manager Work Items­ Part 1

6.4 Service Manager Work Items­ Part 2

6.5 Service Manager Work Items ­Part 3

6.6 Service Manager Notifications

6.7 System Center Integration­ Part 1

6.8 System Center Integration ­Part 2

Module 7: Automating And Standardizing The Private Cloud

7.1 Overview Of Orchestrator

7.2 Deploying Automation Using Orchestrator

7.3 Configuring Integration Packs

7.4 Configuring And Managing Runbooks

Module 8: Disaster Recovery And High Availability For The Private Cloud

8.1 Overview Of Data Protection Manager

8.2 Planning For Data Protection Manager

8.3 Deploying Data Protection Manager

8.4 Configuring Protection For The Private Cloud

8.5 Configuring Protection For Applications­ Part 1

8.6 Configuring Protection For Applications ­Part 2

8.7 Hyper­V Recovery Manager

Module 9: implementing Self­ Service Multi­ Tenant Private Clouds

9.1 Implementing The Cloud Services Process Pack­ Part 1

9.2 Implementing The Cloud Services Process Pack­ Part 2

9.3 Service Provider Foundation

9.4 Configuring The Windows Azure Pack

9.6 Conclusion