Exam 70-513:

TS: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4

Published:July 02, 2010
Language(s):English
Audience(s):Developers
Technology:Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Type:Proctored Exam

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Exam Topics Covered
This exam is designed to test the candidate's knowledge and skills for developing applications using Windows Communication Foundation and the .NET Framework 4.
 
Questions that contain code will be presented in either VB or C#. Candidates can select one of these languages when they start the exam.
Audience Profile
 The candidate works on a team in a development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 to build distributed applications.  This candidate should have at least one year of experience developing Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)–based applications, including at least six months of experience with .NET Framework 4.  The candidate should also be able to demonstrate the following:
  • A solid understanding of WCF in the context of the .NET Framework 4 solution stack
  • Experience creating service model elements
  • Experience using WCF to support open and .NET communication
  • Experience configuring and deploying WCF applications
  • Experience using Visual Studio tools, tracing tools, SvcUtil, WCF performance monitoring, and IIS/WAS for hosting services
  • Experience securing WCF applications
  • A solid understanding of concurrency   
Credit Toward CertificationWhen you pass Exam 70-513: TS: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4, you complete the requirements for the following certification(s):
  • MCTS: .NET Framework 4, Service Communication Applications
Exam 70-513: TS: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):
  • MCPD: Windows Developer 4
  • MCPD: Web Developer 4
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Skills Being MeasuredThis exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.

The information after “This objective may include but is not limited to” is intended to further define or scope the objective by describing the types of skills and topics that may be tested for the objective. However, it is not an exhaustive list of skills and topics that could be included on the exam for a given skill area. You may be tested on other skills and topics related to the objective that are not explicitly listed here.
Creating Services (20%)
  • Create service and operation contracts.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: one-way, duplex, and request reply; creating and specifying  fault contracts; configuration-based contracts; exposing service metadata; selecting serialization (e.g., data contract serializer vs. XML serializer)
    This objective does not include: designing service and operation contracts; transactions, instantiation, security-related attributes
  • Create data contracts.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: managing Known Types; controlling data serialization; using required and order attributes on data members; implementing versioning using IExtensibleDataObject; POCOs
    This objective does not include: using custom serializer (ISerializationSurrogate)
  • Create message contracts.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: body and header elements; using required and order attributes on members
  • Implement generic message handling.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: creating a catch-all contract; reading and writing messages; working with properties; working with headers
    This objective does not include: inheriting from Message class; using BodyWriter; creating Fault messages
  • Implement RESTful services.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: accessing HTTP context; WebGet/WebInvoke, UriTemplates; JSON/POX
  • Create and configure a Routing service.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: filters, static and dynamic, context-based routing, content-based routing; router interfaces
  • Create and configure a Discovery service.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring ad hoc and managed modes; Discovery scopes; service announcements
Hosting and Configuring Services (18%)
  • Create and configure endpoints.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: default and standard bindings; custom bindings created from standard binding elements; standard endpoints; transports including HTTP, TCP, named pipes, UDP, MSMQ code-based service configuration; message encoding
    This objective does not include: creating a custom binding element; creating new standard endpoints, loading configuration from a location other than the default application configuration file, security, transaction, reliable sessions
  • Configure Behaviors.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: applying service, endpoint, and operation behaviors in configuration and code
    This objective does not include: creating a custom behavior; creating and using dispatch behaviors,loading configuration from a location other than the default application configuration file
  • Implement self hosting.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring and instantiating a service host
    This objective does not include: implementing a custom service host
  • Implement Web server hosting.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring IIS/WAS for WCF; deploying to IIS/WAS; file-less configuration; specifying a ServiceHost
    This objective does not include: Windows Application Server
Consuming Services (18%)
  • Create a service proxy.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: using a proxy class or channel factory to create a proxy; creating a proxy for an asynchronous communication; creating a proxy for a duplex communication
    This objective does not include: SvcUtil command-line switches
  • Configure client endpoints.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: standard bindings, custom bindings created from standard binding elements, configuring behaviors; code-based and configuration-based bindings; configuring addresses
    This objective does not include: security; creating custom behaviors
  • Invoke a service.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: invoking a service operation synchronously and asynchronously; handling service faults ; using the Message class; managing the life cycle of the proxy (open channels, close channels, abort channels, handle faulted channels); implementing duplex communication
  • Consume RESTful services.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: access HTTP context; JSON/POX
  • Implement service Discovery.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring target scope; monitoring service announcements
Securing Services (17%)
  • Configure secure Bindings.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: transport, message, mixed mode
  • Configure message security.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: specifying protection levels on different message parts
  • Implement Authentication.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: Microsoft ASP.NET Membership Provider, Custom Provider, Windows Integrated Security, certificates (X.509), Federated Authentication endpoint identity; configuring client credentials; Custom Validator
    This objective does not include: Geneva Framework
  • Implement Authorization.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: role based, claim based; configuring role providers for endpoints; principal permission attribute
    This objective does not include: rights-management authorization such as Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
  • Implement Impersonation.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: configuration and code; configuring WCF-specific Internet Information Services (IIS) impersonation properties; configuring impersonation options; operation-based and service-based
  • Implement security auditing.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: using serviceSecurityAudit behavior, service auditing, audit log
Managing the Service Instance Life Cycle (13%)
  • Manage service instances.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: per call; per session; single; code and configuration; activation and deactivation; durable services; throttling
  • Manage sessions.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: code and configuration; session management attributes; throttling; reliable sessions; transport-level and application-level sessions; invoking a callback contract
  • Implement transactions.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: distributed transactions; transactional queues;transaction flow; configuring transaction binding attributes; WS-AtomicTransaction (WS-AT); transactional behavior attributes at the service and operation level; using transactions in code
  • Manage concurrency.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: single, multiple, and reentrant concurrency modes; SynchronizationContext and CallbackBehavior
    This objective does not include: deadlocks and other multithreading issues
  • Manage consistency between instances, sessions, transactions, and concurrency.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: possible combinations between instances, sessions, transactions, and concurrency (for example, instance mode single with concurrency mode multiple)
Monitoring and Troubleshooting Distributed Systems (13%)
  • Configure message logging.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring message listeners; logging level; message filters; configuring logging known PII
    This objective does not include: secure message logs
  • Configure diagnostics.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: WMI; performance counters; event logging
  • Debug client-service interactions.
    This objective may include but is not limited to: sending server exception details to client; end-to-end tracing; interpreting output from the trace viewer (single message and end to end)
    This objective does not include: tracing viewer features outside of viewing traces
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