Preparation Guide for Exam 70-310

Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework

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	Exam news
	Audience profile
	Credit toward certification
	Preparation tools and resources
	Skills measured

Exam news

Exam 70-310 became available in August 2002.

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Audience profile

Candidates for this exam work on a team in a medium-sized or large development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Candidates have at least one year of experience developing middle-tier components. Candidates should have a working knowledge of Microsoft Visual Basic .NET.

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Credit toward certification

When you pass Exam 70-310: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework, you achieve Microsoft Certified Professional status.

You also earn credit toward the following certifications:

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Preparation tools and resources

To help you prepare for this exam, Microsoft Learning recommends that you have hands-on experience with the product and that you use the following training resources. These training resources do not necessarily cover all of the topics listed in the "Skills measured" section.

Classroom training

E-Learning courses

Microsoft Press self-paced training products

Microsoft certified practice tests

Microsoft online resources

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Skills measured

This certification exam measures your ability to develop and implement middle-tier components, server components, and XML Web services by using Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Before taking the exam, you should be proficient in the job skills listed in the following table. The table shows which Official Microsoft Learning Products may help you reach competency in the skills being tested in the exam.

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= The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work     = The course includes some material to prepare you for this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work     = The course includes material to prepare you for this task

Skills measured by Exam 70-310	Course 2389	Course 2524	Course 2557	Course 2663
Creating and Managing Microsoft Windows Services, Serviced Components, .NET Remoting Objects, and XML Web Services
Create and manipulate a Windows service. • Write code that is executed when a Windows service is started or stopped.
Create and consume a serviced component. • Implement a serviced component. • Create interfaces that are visible to COM. • Create a strongly named assembly. • Register the component in the global assembly cache. • Manage the component by using the Component Services tool.
Create and consume a .NET Remoting object. • Implement server-activated components. • Implement client-activated components. • Select a channel protocol and a formatter. Channel protocols include TCP and HTTP. Formatters include SOAP and binary. • Create client configuration files and server configuration files. • Implement an asynchronous method. • Create the listener service. • Instantiate and invoke a .NET Remoting object.
Create and consume an XML Web service. • Control characteristics of Web methods by using attributes. • Create and use SOAP extensions. • Create asynchronous Web methods. • Control XML wire format for an XML Web service. • Instantiate and invoke an XML Web service.
Implement security for a Windows service, a serviced component, a .NET Remoting object, and an XML Web service.
Access unmanaged code from a Windows service, a serviced component, a .NET Remoting object, and an XML Web service.
Consuming and Manipulating Data
Access and manipulate data from a Microsoft SQL Server database by creating and using ad hoc queries and stored procedures.
Create and manipulate DataSets. • Manipulate a DataSet schema. • Manipulate DataSet relationships. • Create a strongly typed DataSet.
Access and manipulate XML data. • Access an XML file by using the Document Object Model (DOM) and an XmlReader. • Transform DataSet data into XML data. • Use XPath to query XML data. • Generate and use an XSD schema. • Write a SQL statement that retrieves XML data from a SQL Server database. • Update a SQL Server database by using XML. • Validate an XML document.
Testing and Debugging
Create a unit test plan.
Implement tracing. • Configure and use trace listeners and trace switches. • Display trace output.
Instrument and debug a Windows service, a serviced component, a .NET Remoting object, and an XML Web service. • Configure the debugging environment. • Create and apply debugging code to components and applications. • Provide multicultural test data to components and applications. • Execute tests.
Use interactive debugging.
Log test results. • Resolve errors and rework code. • Control debugging in the Web.config file. • Use SOAP extensions for debugging.
Deploying Windows Services, Serviced Components, .NET Remoting Objects, and XML Web Services
Plan the deployment of and deploy a Windows service, a serviced component, a .NET Remoting object, and an XML Web service.
Create a setup program that installs a Windows service, a serviced component, a .NET Remoting object, and an XML Web service. • Register components and assemblies.
Publish an XML Web service. • Enable static discovery. • Publish XML Web service definitions in the UDDI.
Configure client computers and servers to use a Windows service, a serviced component, a .NET Remoting object, and an XML Web service.
Implement versioning.
Plan, configure, and deploy side-by-side deployments and applications.
Configure security for a Windows service, a serviced component, a .NET Remoting object, and an XML Web service. • Configure authentication type. Authentication types include Windows authentication, Windows Live ID (formerly Passport Network account), custom authentication, and none. • Configure and control authorization. Authorization methods include file-based authorization and URL-based authorization. • Configure and implement identity management.

Note This preparation guide is subject to change at any time without prior notice and at the sole discretion of Microsoft. Microsoft exams might include adaptive testing technology and simulation items. Microsoft does not identify the format in which exams are presented. Please use this preparation guide to prepare for the exam, regardless of its format.

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