Windows Server Administration — Lesson 3: Virtualization, Security, Monitoring, Backup, and Recovery

Learning Objectives

• Manage Hyper-V hosts, virtual machines, virtual networks, storage, checkpoints, and resources
• Apply security baselines, privileged access, auditing, encryption, updates, and endpoint protection
• Monitor events, performance, capacity, availability, backup, restore, and disaster recovery

Detailed Topics

• Manage Hyper-V hosts: Manage Hyper-V hosts, virtual machines, virtual networks, storage, checkpoints, and resources
• Apply security baselines: Apply security baselines, privileged access, auditing, encryption, updates, and endpoint protection
• Monitor events: Monitor events, performance, capacity, availability, backup, restore, and disaster recovery

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Secure and recover a virtualized server workload using documented procedures.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Virtualization, Security, Monitoring, Backup, and Recovery in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.