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Exam 70-230 became available October 16, 2001.
Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam operate in medium to very large
computing environments that use Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000.
Candidates have a minimum of one year's experience designing and
developing distributed applications by using Microsoft
technologies. Candidates must have expertise with XML, and
experience with XSLT is recommended. Candidates must have a
working knowledge of COM+, including development tools such as
Microsoft Visual Basic® and Microsoft Visual C++®, and a working
knowledge of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), ASP,
and Microsoft SQL Server™ Enterprise Edition. Environmental
characteristics include:
- Document interchange via HTTP, SMTP, Message Queuing, and
FTP
- Transactional and multi-tier applications
- Help protect protocols such as SSL and S/MIME that use
public-key infrastructure (PKI)
- Relational database management system (RDBMS)
- Distributed networks
Skills Being Measured
This certification exam measures your ability to implement,
administer, and troubleshoot information systems that
incorporate Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000. This exam also
measures your ability to analyze, design, build, and implement
integrated business process solutions by using Microsoft BizTalk
Server 2000. Before taking the exam, you should be proficient in
the job skills listed below.
| Planning and
Designing BizTalk Server Solutions |
Plan and design the
security architecture.
- Design the BizTalk Server environment.
- Design certificate services. Considerations include
certificate placement and encryption strategy.
- Design Microsoft SQL Server database security.
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Plan and design BizTalk
Server for performance, maintainability, extensibility,
availability, scalability, and reliability. Considerations
include number of transactions per time increment,
bandwidth, capacity, peak versus average usage requirements,
response-time expectations, barriers to performance,
processes per server, maintenance expectations, location and
knowledge level of maintenance staff, impact of third-party
maintenance agreements, hours of operation, level of
availability, impact of downtime, growth of the partners,
growth of the company, volume of documents, and cycle of
use.
- Design self-routing documents.
- Design receive services.
- Distribute systems and applications across a BizTalk
Server group.
- Design and formulate hardware needs. Considerations
include types of computers and number of computers.
- Design architecture segmentation and strategy.
- Design multiple-server work processing.
- Design BizTalk Server group architecture.
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Plan and design integration
with existing applications.
- Analyze requirements for integrating a solution with
existing applications. Considerations include format and
location of existing data, connectivity to existing
applications, data conversion, and data enhancement
requirements.
- Analyze requirements for integrating a solution with
an existing network architecture.
- Design integration solutions to meet the requirements.
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Derive the physical design.
- Design the properties, methods, and events of COM+ and
script components.
- Design Message Queuing architecture.
- Design document interchange schemas and
transformations.
- Design business process orchestration.
- Design messaging ports and channels architecture.
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| Installing
BizTalk Server |
| Install BizTalk Server.
Considerations include attended and unattended
installations. |
Troubleshoot failed
installations.
- Diagnose and resolve problems that involve the
operating system configuration.
- Diagnose and resolve problems that involve network
configuration.
- Diagnose and resolve problems that involve SQL Server
configuration.
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| Building
Document Interchanges |
| Configure organizations and
applications. |
| Configure document
definitions. |
Create and configure
messaging ports. Considerations include name, type, and
definition.
- Configure a messaging port for an organization or
application.
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| Select and create
envelopes. Considerations include name, type, and definition
such as reliable, electronic data interchange (EDI),
flat-file, custom XML, and custom. |
Create and configure
channels.
- Specify an organization or application.
- Override messaging port defaults.
- Configure an inbound and outbound document definition.
- Select a map.
- Configure tracking and logging options.
- Configure a channel from an organization or
application.
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Configure receive
architecture. Considerations include receive functions and
scripts.
- Configure receive functions to receive documents via
FTP.
- Configure receive functions to receive documents via
Message Queuing.
- Configure message tracking and logging by using
BizTalk Messaging Manager.
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| Creating
Auxiliary Components for BizTalk Server Solutions |
Create a COM+ component
that implements custom transport logic.
- Create application integration components (AICs).
- Create pipeline components.
- Submit documents programmatically.
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| Identify situations for
applying custom components. |
| Administering
BizTalk Server Solutions |
Monitor and optimize
BizTalk Server performance. Tools include performance
counters, Event Viewer, BizTalk Server Administration,
Document Tracking and Activity (DTA), XLANG Event Monitor,
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), and SQL Server
Enterprise Manager.
- Monitor SQL Server for BizTalk Server performance.
- Monitor and optimize Microsoft Windows 2000 Server for
BizTalk Server performance.
- Monitor BizTalk Server by using Document Tracking and
Activity (DTA).
- Optimize BizTalk Server for receive and submit
processing.
- Monitor BizTalk Orchestration Services by using the
XLANG Event Monitor.
- Monitor BizTalk Server queues.
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| Audit business documents by
using BizTalk Document Tracking. |
Diagnose and resolve
BizTalk Server implementation errors.
- Diagnose and resolve Windows 2000 security problems.
- Diagnose and resolve BizTalk Server errors.
- Diagnose and resolve documents in the Suspended
queue.
- Diagnose and resolve receive function errors.
- Diagnose and resolve envelope errors.
- Diagnose and resolve parsing errors.
- Diagnose and resolve messaging port errors.
- Monitor and analyze error logs for transaction
failure. Considerations include error logs, Windows 2000
event logs, and System Monitor counters.
- Diagnose and resolve ancillary service errors.
Considerations include WebDAV, SQL Server, Message
Queuing, HTTP, HTTPS, and SMTP services.
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| Creating
Schemas and Transformations |
| Import and modify schemas
by using BizTalk Editor. |
Create new schemas by using
BizTalk Editor.
- Create schemas for flat files.
- Create XDR schemas to match the electronic data
interchange (EDI) specification.
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| Create schema mapping by
using BizTalk Mapper. Considerations include functoids and
validation. |
| Implementing
Business Processes by using BizTalk Orchestration Designer |
Design the business process
by using Flowchart shapes.
- Implement business process error handling.
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| Bind business process
Implementation shapes. Considerations include the
Message Queuing shape, the Script Component
shape, the COM Component shape, and the BizTalk
Messaging shape. |
Create transactional
business processes.
- Create long-running and short-lived transactions.
- Diagnose and resolve transactional and component
errors.
- Create correlations back to long-running business
processes.
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| Map the data flow between
messages. |
| Configure orchestration
ports for communication between business processes and
transport bindings. |
| Diagnose and resolve
orchestration errors by using the XLANG Event Monitor. |
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