Exam 70-234 became available December 10, 2001.
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.
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.
| 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 |
| Install Commerce Server.
Types of installations include complete installations, Web
server–only installations, and custom installations. |
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 errors. |
| 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. |
