Get ahead with the MCITP Certification in Database Administration

Been working as a database administrator for two years or more? Yet, you want to achieve more in the work place? An MCITP certification in database administration could be for you.

The Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional certificate will grant you a professional qualification, which reinforces your I.T skills to your employer and other future employers. It validates your knowledge as a trained and experienced professional. Furthermore, it allows to get to grips, out of the work place, with the ever advancing Microsoft technologies that are available – enabling you to advance your skills in the work place, and hopefully get that much needed promotion! An MCITP course also helps to suggest your commitment to the profession to your employers and clients, which is extremely important in the increasingly tougher job market.

The Lowdown -  Database Administration (SQL Server 2005):

What is being tested?

A variety of skills will be tested in the following modules:

1. Database implementation and maintenance:

This module focuses on your ability to install and configure Microsoft’s very own SQL server 2005, implement high availability and disaster recovery so as to protect your database, support data consumers, maintain databases, create and implement database objects, as well as assessing monitoring and troubleshooting SQL server performance. This will all be tested by an exam.

 

After completing this module, you will gain a certificate known as the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2005. This acts as one credit towards the MCITP database administrator certification – you must complete the other two modules before you can gain this certificate.

 

2. Designing a Database Server Infrastructure:

The central aim of this second module is to teach you how to optimise the performance of database servers and databases. It focuses mainly on design elements, which will enhance your databases’ efficiency and security. You will be taught how to design a database server infrastructure, design security solutions – enabling you to make the best choice of security; design the database so that you can improve performance, efficiency and choose the most appropriate view. Further testing includes: designing a database solution for high availability, data recovery and a structure for data archiving. As before, this is tested by an exam. 

3. Optimising and maintaining a database                                                                             This module continues to study database performance optimisation and maintenance using SQL Server 2005. It will analyse the performance of the database, the server and queries. One of the main focuses of this module will be – the implementation of a database recovery plan, so as to protect the database from any disasters. This module will then continue to analyse in depth strategies to maintain and monitor a database solution, which includes content management; will cultivate the ability to design a strategy to manage data, as well as security.

The MCITP certification will enable you to utilise the skills you need to optimise the database’s performance and security, which will in turn improve your company’s performance and effectiveness.

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