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Preparation Guide for Exam 70-234

Designing and Implementing Solutions with Microsoft Commerce Server 2000

Updated: May 13, 2008
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Exam news

Exam 70-234 became available on December 10, 2001.

•This exam retired in March 2008

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Audience profile

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 of experience developing e-commerce Web sites and two years of 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 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.

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Credit toward certification

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

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Elective credit toward Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Microsoft Windows 2000 certification

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Elective credit toward Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for Microsoft .NET certification

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Elective credit toward Microsoft Certified Solution Developer certification

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Elective credit toward Microsoft Certified Application Developer for Microsoft .NET certification

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Preparation tools and resources

In addition to your hands-on experience working with the product, we recommend that you use the following tools and training to help you prepare for this exam.

Classroom training for this exam

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Course 2185: Deploying and Managing Microsoft Commerce Server 2000

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Course 2341: Fundamentals of Developing a Business-to-Consumer Solution with Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 (no longer available)

Microsoft Press self-paced training products

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Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 Pocket Consultant

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Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 Resource Kit

Microsoft certified practice tests

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MeasureUp: Visit the MeasureUp Web site to take a practice test.

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Self Test Software: Visit the Self Test Software Web site to take a practice test.

Microsoft online resources

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TechNet: Designed for IT professionals, this site includes how-to instructions, best practices, downloads, technical chats, and much more.

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MSDN: The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is a reference for developers. It features code samples, technical articles, newsgroups, chats, and more.

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Training and certification newsgroups: There is a newsgroup for every Microsoft certification. By participating in the ongoing dialogue, you take advantage of a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with and ask questions of others, including more than 750 Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) worldwide.

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Skills measured

This 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 in the following matrix. The matrix shows which Official Microsoft Learning Products may help you reach competency in the skills being tested in the exam.

KEY:The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work. = 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 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. = The course includes material to prepare you for this task.
Skills measured by Exam 70-234Course 2185Course 2341
Analyzing Business Requirements   

Analyze architecture requirements.

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Analyze the scope of a project.

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Analyze performance requirements.

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Analyze maintainability requirements.

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Analyze availability requirements.

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Analyze scalability requirements.

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Analyze reliability requirements.

The course includes some material to prepare you for 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.

Analyze security requirements.

The course includes some material to prepare you for 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.

Analyze integration requirements.

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Analyze current architecture.

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Analyze current business processes.

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Plan migration strategy.

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Analyze partner requirements.

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Analyze existing company methodologies, standards, and limitations.

The course includes some material to prepare you for 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.

Analyze functional requirements.

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Analyze profile requirements.

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Analyze catalog requirements.

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Analyze campaign requirements.

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Analyze deployment requirements.

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Analyze data-analysis requirements.

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.

Designing a Commerce Server Solution   

Develop the site design.

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Design user profiles.

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Design catalog structure.

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Design targeting strategy.

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Design shopping strategy and checkout strategy.

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Design a Data Warehouse and reporting model.

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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.

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Design a state-management strategy.

The course includes some material to prepare you for 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.

Design the security infrastructure.

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Design the perimeter-network architecture.

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Design an authentication and authorization strategy.

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.

Design the deployment architecture. Considerations include security, performance, maintainability, extensibility, availability, scalability, and reliability.

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Design the development, test, staging, and production environments, including source code management.

The course includes some material to prepare you for 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.

Installing and Configuring Commerce Server 2000   

Install Commerce Server. Types of installations include complete installations, Web server–only installations, and custom installations.

The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

 The course includes some material to prepare you for this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

Configure Microsoft SQL Server and Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0.

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Configure SQL Server. Considerations include network protocols, security, database locations, and whether to enable full-text searching.

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Configure IIS. Considerations include security, manageability, ports, Web server log files, application settings, and performance.

The course includes some material to prepare you for 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.

Install and configure Commerce Server Solution Sites.

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Install the Commerce Server Solution Sites.

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Unpack the Solution Sites by using Commerce Server Site Packager.

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Install, configure, and help protect the Commerce Server Business Desk client.

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Configure resources. Resources include the Predictor resource, SQL Server Profiler, the Direct Mailer resource, the Data Warehouse, and the CS Authentication resource.

The course includes some material to prepare you for 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.

Diagnose and resolve Commerce Server and Solution Site installation errors, including Business Desk installation errors.

The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

Developing a Commerce Server Solution   

Create profile definitions.

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Create SQL tables.

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Add data sources.

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Add data objects.

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Create and edit profile definitions.

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Add a new property or property group.

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Map logical definition to physical source.

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Create and modify site terms.

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.

Create a catalog by using Business Desk, XML, or the application programming interface (API).

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Create a schema. Considerations include creating category definitions, creating product definitions, and creating property definitions.

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Create catalog entries. Considerations include importing catalogs and adding new categories and items.

The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

 The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

Create campaigns.

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Create catalog expressions, target expressions, and target groups.

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Create discount, advertising, and direct mail campaigns.

 The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

 The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

Develop a Commerce Server site.

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Display site content by using Commerce Server objects.

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Authenticate and profile users by using Commerce Server objects.

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Display catalog data by using Commerce Server objects.

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Complete transactions by using Commerce Server Order pipeline components.

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Complete site operations by using Commerce Server general-purpose objects.

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Create a form to gather data.

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Display data from a data source.

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Provide a personalized user experience that is based on the Content Selection Framework and the Predictor resource.

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Integrate a third-party service on the Commerce Server site. Services include Microsoft Passport and a credit card authorization service.

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Create and implement pipelines.

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.

Customize Business Desk.

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Develop modules.

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Add modules to Business Desk.

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Debug modules in Business Desk.

The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

Develop business Internet analytics.

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Extend the Data Warehouse schema.

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Create custom data cubes.

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Create Data Transformation Services (DTS) packages.

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Select and execute DTS tasks.

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Import data, and process cubes.

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Diagnose and resolve Data Warehouse errors.

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Run reports by using Business Desk. Types of reports include static, dynamic, and custom.

The course includes some material to prepare you for this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

Deploying a Commerce Server Solution   

Use Commerce Server Site Packager.

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Create a package.

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Unpack the site.

The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

 The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

Add and configure servers.

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Implement SSL.

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Configure databases. Databases include Campaigns, Product Catalog, Profiles, Transactions, Administration, Direct Mailer, and Data Warehouse.

The course includes some material to prepare you for 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.

Deploy Business Desk.

The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

 The course includes some material to prepare you for this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

Troubleshoot Business Desk deployment.

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Diagnose and resolve AuthFilter and AuthManager errors.

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Diagnose and resolve catalog errors.

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Diagnose and resolve campaign errors.

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Diagnose and resolve Business Desk errors.

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Diagnose and resolve application startup errors.

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Trace pipeline components by using pipeline log files.

The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

Maintaining and Supporting Your Commerce Server Solution   

Manage campaigns.

The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

 The course includes some material to prepare you for this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

Manage catalogs. Considerations include managing deleted items and updating items.

The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

 The course includes some material to prepare you for this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

Manage orders.

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Define shipping methods and shipping rates.

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Enter tax rates.

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Monitor order status.

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Manage abandoned baskets.

The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

 The course includes some material to prepare you for this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

Manage profiles.

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Manage accounts that have not been used within a specified time frame.

 The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

Manage content.

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Implement content replication.

The course includes some material to prepare you for this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

Monitor performance counters and event logs.

 The course includes material to prepare you for this task.

The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work.

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