Candidates for this exam design and deploy SharePoint Online and on-premise SharePoint 2010 SP1 infrastructures. These candidates might be senior administrators who act as the technical lead over a team of administrators. Candidates should have a minimum of two years of experience administering, deploying, managing, monitoring, upgrading, migrating, and designing SharePoint solutions. Candidates typically plan, design, and maintain: • Physical topologies and services architecture • Disaster recovery (backup and restore) and availability • Infrastructure capacity (users, licenses, and topology) • Farm performance and availability • Migration, coexistence, and upgrade • Security and compliance requirements • Information architecture (interprets taxonomy) • Information search strategy integration with other data sources (LOB, third-party products) • Client application services deployment Candidates should have a thorough understanding of the following: • Windows PowerShell scripting • Server availability and performance concepts (SQL mirroring, load balancing) • Security concepts and authentication methods • Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory administration • Networking infrastructure services including DNS and IIS