Preparation Guide for Exam 70-230

Designing and Implementing Solutions with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000, Enterprise Edition

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	Skills measured

Exam news

Exam 70-230 became available on October 16, 2001.

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Audience profile

Candidates for this exam operate in medium-sized to very large computing environments that use Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000. Candidates have a minimum of one year of experience in 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:

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Credit toward certification

When you pass the Designing and Implementing Solutions with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000, Enterprise Edition exam, you achieve Microsoft Certified Professional status. You also earn credit toward the following certifications:

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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.

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Skills measured

This 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 in the following table.

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Skills measured by Exam 70-230	Course 2379
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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