70-162 Forefront Protection for Endpoints and Applications Resource Guide

Claymoore

Resources and study guide for the 70-162 TS: Forefront Protection for Endpoints and Applications, Configuring exam

Product Sites
Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection: Home
Forefront Endpoint Security Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Webcasts and Videos
TechNet Webcast: Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010: Technical Overview
TechNet Webcast: Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010: Features and Protection Technologies
TechNet Webcast: Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 and System Center Configuration Manager
TechNet Webcast: Security and Anti-malware Management with Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
Forefront Endpoint Protection: New Protection Feature Demos
Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010: Simplified Policy Management Demo

Skills Measured

Deploying Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010, Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server, and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (24 percent)

Plan and implement a Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) topology.
Prerequisites for Installing Forefront Endpoint Protection on a Server
About Configuration Manager Site Topologies and FEP 2010
About Basic Setup
About Basic with Remote Reporting Database Setup
Planning for Definition Updates
Software Updates and Windows Server Update Services Definition Updates

Design and install Forefront Protection for Exchange Server (FPE) and Forefront Protection for SharePoint (FPSP) components.
Forefront Protection Server Management Console
Protecting your Exchange servers
Capacity guidance for Exchange server roles
Install forefront protection on an Exchange server
Installing Forefront Protection on clustered Exchange servers
Installing on a clustered system
Exporting and importing configuration settings
Installing Forefront protection for SharePoint and MOSS

Customize the System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Operations Manager configuration for FEP implementations.
Prerequisites for Importing the Forefront Endpoint Protection Security Management Pack
Software Updates and Windows Server Update Services Definition Updates
Retrieving the Effective Endpoint Protection Settings
Using Desired Configuration Management to Monitor Client Compliance
FEP 2010 Security Management Pack

Deploy the FEP client.
Prerequisites for Deploying Forefront Endpoint Protection on a Client
Deploying by Using Configuration Manager Packages
Deploying Manually
Deploying the Client Software by Using the Command Prompt
Deploying the Client Software by Using Disk Images
Enforcing the Client Software Deployment

Maintaining Endpoint and Application Protection (26 percent)

Configure Operations Manager Management Pack for FEP
FEP 2010 Security Management Pack Reporting
Creating Reports
Managing Reporting in Operations Manager 2007
FEP Monitoring
FEP 2010 Security Management Pack Monitoring
Configuring Notification in Operations Manager 2007 SP1

Configure alerts, notifications, and monitoring for FEP by using Configuration Manager
Using Alerts to Monitor Malware Detections
Reports Overview
Dashboard Overview
FEP 2010 Reports
Subscribing to Reports
How to: Subscribe to a Report (Report Manager)
Configuring a Report Server for E-Mail Delivery
Monitoring Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 - FEP operational reports - Forefront Endpoint Security Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Remediate FEP client issues
Validating Deployment
Enforcing the Client Software Deployment
Uninstalling

Configure alerts, notifications, monitoring, and quarantine for FPE and FPSP.
Monitoring performance and health
Configuring e-mail notifications
Viewing incidents
Managing quarantine
Importing the management pack

Configuring the FEP Client (25 percent)

Configure FEP clients by using Configuration Manager
FEP Policies
FEP Policy Templates

Configure the FEP client by using Group Policy
Converting FEP Policies to Group Policy
Merging Settings from Multiple Policy Files
Exporting Policy Settings to a FEP Policy File
Configuring and Viewing FEP Group Policy Settings
Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Tools

Configure FEP clients manually
Applying Policies from the Command Prompt

Configuring FPE and FPSP Application Protection (25 percent)

Configure anti-spam protection by using FPE
Using antispam filtering in Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange
Configuring content filtering
Creating a keyword filter list
Creating a file filter list
Using connection filtering
Configuring sender filtering
Configuring backscatter filtering
Configuring recipient filtering
Configuring sender ID filtering
Best practices for configuring forefront protection for exchange

Configure anti-malware protection by using FPE
Configuring antimalware scanning
Scanning specific mailboxes for malware on-demand
Scanning mailboxes and public folders for malware in real time
Selecting the scan engines used for each scan
Bypassing virus and spam scanning for messages already scanned
Configuring engine and definition updates
Configuring the number of scan engines used for each scan

Configure application protection with FPSP.
Best practices
Creating a keyword filter list
Creating a file filter list
Viewing and managing filter lists
Configuring the realtime scan
Scanning specific sites for malware on demand
Selecting the scan engines used for each scan
Configuring maximum file sizes and other threshold levels
Configuring engine and definition updates

Diagnose and resolve malware and spam outbreaks.
Managing incidents
Deleting corrupted compressed files
Purging viruses
Purging worm-infected messages
Monitoring performance and health

Claymoore

Microsoft recently announced that Forefront Endpoint Protection will be moving from the Enterprise CAL to the Core CAL on Aug 1, 2011. Without getting too deep into licensing (and likely drowning in confusion), some customers can start using the new features now. We are starting to get clients asking us about FEP and there isn't much information out there. I may not take the test for this unless it is required for some POC funding, but the Skills Measured on the exam is the best breakdown I could find for the required FEP skills.

Jharl

Thanks for putting this together. This was a big help in solving the issues that I was having getting Forefront up and going.

Budzy

Hi Claymoore, thank you very much for posting this - was finding it hard to find resources for this exam.

Has anyone here taken it yet?

Will be looking to undertake this exam as it's been added as a requirement for the Identity and Security Microsoft Partner Competency.

colemic

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skyberx

Thank you very much