Server Hardware Maintenance (SK0-005)
Welcome to the Server Hardware Maintenance practice lab. In this module, you will be provided with information about the maintenance of server hardware.
This module will introduce you to local hardware solutions and remote options. It will cover hot-swappable hardware and other hardware that helps to keep your servers constantly functioning. You will also talk about the software that allows the hardware to function, be configured, and boot up.
Overview
Learning Outcomes:
In this module, you will complete the following exercises:
- Exercise 1 – Local Hardware Administration
- Exercise 2 – Out-of-Band Management
- Exercise 3 – Hot-Swappable Hardware
- Exercise 4 – BIOS and EUFI
After completing this module, you should have further knowledge of:
- Keyboard video mouse (KVM)
- Crash cart
- Serial connectivity versus parallel connectivity
- Console connection
- Virtual Machine Administration Console
- Remote drive access
- Remote console access
- Remote power on/off
- Internet Protocol keyboard video mouse (IP KVM)
- Hard drives
- Network Attached Storage cages
- Network interface cards (NICs)
- Power supplies
- Fans and cooling
- BIOS
- UEFI
- Firmware updates
Exam Objectives:
The following exam objectives are covered in this module:
1.3 Given a scenario, perform server hardware maintenance
- Out-of-band management
- Local hardware administration
- Components
- Drives
- Hot-swappable hardware
- Basic input/output system (BIOS)/Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)