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Exam News
Exam 70-234 became available August 14, 2002.
Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam operate in small to very large
computing environments that use Microsoft Commerce
Server 2000. Candidates have a minimum of one year's
experience developing e-commerce sites and two years'
experience designing applications by using Microsoft
technologies. Candidates have a working knowledge of
development tools such as Microsoft Visual Basic®,
Microsoft Visual C++®, COM+, and ASP. Candidates also
have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows® 2000,
Active Directory™, Internet Information Services (IIS),
SSL, Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000 database management
system (DBMS), and SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services.
Candidates have a conceptual knowledge of network load
balancing and firewalls.
Preparation Tools and Resources
We make a wealth of preparation tools and resources
available to you, including courses, books, practice
tests, and Microsoft Web sites. When you are ready to
prepare for this exam, here's where you should start.
Instructor-led Courses for This Exam
- Course 2185: Deploying and Managing Microsoft
Commerce Server 2000
- Course 2341: Fundamentals of Developing a
Business-to-Consumer Solution with Microsoft Commerce
Server 2000
Microsoft Online Resources
- TechNet: Designed for IT professionals, this site
includes How-tos, best practices, downloads, technical
chats, and much more.
- MSDN: The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is a
reference for developers, featuring code samples,
technical articles, newsgroups, chats, and more.
- Training & Certification Newsgroups: A newsgroup
exists for every Microsoft certification. By
participating in the ongoing dialogue, you take
advantage of a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with
and ask questions of others, including more than 750
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) worldwide.
Skills Being Measured
This certification exam measures your ability to
design and implement solutions by using Microsoft
Commerce Server 2000. Before taking the exam, you should
be proficient in the job skills listed below.
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Analyzing Business Requirements |
Analyze
architecture requirements.
- Analyze the scope of a project.
- Analyze performance requirements.
- Analyze maintainability
requirements.
- Analyze availability requirements.
- Analyze scalability requirements.
- Analyze reliability requirements.
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| Analyze
security requirements. |
Analyze
integration requirements.
- Analyze current architecture.
- Analyze current business
processes.
- Plan migration strategy.
- Analyze partner requirements.
- Analyze existing company
methodologies, standards, and
limitations.
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Analyze
functional requirements.
- Analyze profile requirements.
- Analyze catalog requirements.
- Analyze campaign requirements.
- Analyze deployment requirements.
- Analyze data-analysis
requirements.
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Designing a Commerce Server Solution |
Develop
the site design.
- Design user profiles.
- Design catalog structure.
- Design targeting strategy.
- Design shopping strategy and
checkout strategy.
- Design a Data Warehouse and
reporting model.
- Design site navigation and the
user interface. Considerations include
identifying input validation
procedures that should be integrated
into the user interface, and
evaluating methods of providing online
user assistance, such as HTML Web
forms and client-side scripts.
- Design a state-management
strategy.
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Design
the security infrastructure.
- Design the perimeter-network
architecture.
- Design an authentication and
authorization strategy.
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Design
the deployment architecture.
Considerations include security,
performance, maintainability,
extensibility, availability,
scalability, and reliability.
- Design the development, test,
staging, and production environments,
including source code management.
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Installing and Configuring Commerce
Server 2000 |
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Commerce Server. Types of installations
include complete installations, Web
server–only installations, and custom
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Configure Microsoft SQL Server and
Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0.
- Configure SQL Server.
Considerations include network
protocols, security, database
locations, and whether to enable
full-text searching.
- Configure IIS. Considerations
include security, manageability,
ports, Web server log files,
application settings, and performance.
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Install
and configure Commerce Server Solution
Sites.
- Install the Commerce Server
Solution Sites.
- Unpack the Solution Sites by using
Commerce Server Site Packager.
- Install, configure, and help
protect the Commerce Server Business
Desk client.
- Configure resources. Resources
include the Predictor resource, SQL
Server Profiler, the Direct Mailer
resource, the Data Warehouse, and the
CS Authentication resource.
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Diagnose and resolve Commerce Server and
Solution Site installation errors,
including Business Desk installation
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Developing a Commerce Server Solution |
Create
profile definitions.
- Create SQL tables.
- Add data sources.
- Add data objects.
- Create and edit profile
definitions.
- Add a new property or property
group.
- Map logical definition to physical
source.
- Create and modify site terms.
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Create
a catalog by using Business Desk, XML,
or the application programming interface
(API).
- Create a schema. Considerations
include creating category definitions,
creating product definitions, and
creating property definitions.
- Create catalog entries.
Considerations include importing
catalogs and adding new categories and
items.
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Create
campaigns.
- Create catalog expressions, target
expressions, and target groups.
- Create discount, advertising, and
direct mail campaigns.
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Develop
a Commerce Server site.
- Display site content by using
Commerce Server objects.
- Authenticate and profile users by
using Commerce Server objects.
- Display catalog data by using
Commerce Server objects.
- Complete transactions by using
Commerce Server Order pipeline
components.
- Complete site operations by using
Commerce Server general-purpose
objects.
- Create a form to gather data.
- Display data from a data source.
- Provide a personalized user
experience that is based on the
Content Selection Framework and the
Predictor resource.
- Integrate a third-party service on
the Commerce Server site. Services
include Microsoft Passport and a
credit card authorization service.
- Create and implement pipelines.
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Customize Business Desk.
- Develop modules.
- Add modules to Business Desk.
- Debug modules in Business Desk.
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Develop
business Internet analytics.
- Extend the Data Warehouse schema.
- Create custom data cubes.
- Create Data Transformation
Services (DTS) packages.
- Select and execute DTS tasks.
- Import data, and process cubes.
- Diagnose and resolve Data
Warehouse errors.
- Run reports by using Business
Desk. Types of reports include static,
dynamic, and custom.
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Deploying a Commerce Server Solution |
Use
Commerce Server Site Packager.
- Create a package.
- Unpack the site.
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Add and
configure servers.
- Implement SSL.
- Configure databases. Databases
include Campaigns, Product Catalog,
Profiles, Transactions,
Administration, Direct Mailer, and
Data Warehouse.
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| Deploy
Business Desk. |
Troubleshoot Business Desk deployment.
- Diagnose and resolve AuthFilter
and AuthManager errors.
- Diagnose and resolve catalog
errors.
- Diagnose and resolve campaign
errors.
- Diagnose and resolve Business Desk
errors.
- Diagnose and resolve application
startup errors.
- Trace pipeline components by using
pipeline log files.
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Maintaining and Supporting Your Commerce
Server Solution |
| Manage
campaigns. |
| Manage
catalogs. Considerations include
managing deleted items and updating
items. |
Manage
orders.
- Define shipping methods and
shipping rates.
- Enter tax rates.
- Monitor order status.
- Manage abandoned baskets.
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Manage
profiles.
- Manage accounts that have not been
used within a specified time frame.
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Manage
content.
- Implement content replication.
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| Monitor
performance counters and event logs. |
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