Book description
This book does exactly what it says on the cover, giving in-depth guidance to intermediate BizTalk developers on how to pass the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) exam. It’s your essential aid to success.
In Detail
Microsoft BizTalk Server is an integration and connectivity server solution that enables organizations to easily connect disparate systems.
Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions by Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) is the certification exam for professionals who need to integrate multiple disparate systems, applications, and data, as well as automate business processes using BizTalk Server. The Microsoft Partner Network BizTalk Technical Competency Assessment for Application Integration is part of the requirements for individuals employed at partners seeking the Silver or Gold Application Integration competency.
Microsoft BizTalk Server (70-595) Certification and Assessment Guide Second Edition will show you how to prepare for and pass the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) exam and become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010. This book will also help you if you are a Microsoft partner wanting to achieve the Silver or Gold Application Integration competency requirements.
This book is a hands-on certification guide with practical examples and sample questions and answers that aims to help BizTalk developers pass the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) exam or the BizTalk Server 2013 technical competency assessment. The book starts by showing you how to configure a messaging architecture. The book then dives into BizTalk artifacts such as creating schemas and pipelines, creating maps, and creating orchestrations. It also covers topics such as debugging and exception handling, deploying, tracking, and administrating a BizTalk Server solution, integrating web services and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services, and implementing extended capabilities. It wraps up by discussing BizTalk Server and BizTalk Services in Windows Azure.
Microsoft BizTalk Server (70-595) Certification and Assessment Guide Second Edition includes certification test tips and tricks and sample certification test questions that will enable you to not only learn about the topics, but practice them, as well as review the code that makes it happen. After reading this book, you can approach the exam as well as the assessment with improved confidence.
What You Will Learn
- Understand the core architecture of BizTalk, including publish/subscribe, context and content-based routing, receive and send ports, and other administrative artifacts
- Create rich and useful schemas with restrictions and reusable types
- Create maps and apply logic such as conditional mapping, looping, scripting and external assemblies, and other map and functoid logic
- Create orchestrations and work with messages, scopes, transactions, binding, correlation, and other shapes and processing logic
- Handle exceptions in messaging and orchestration scenarios and recover from them using catch, compensation, and failed message routing
- Perform administrative tasks such as installing, configuring, tuning, deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting BizTalk Server 2010 groups and solutions
- Work with web services and WCF, expose and consume services, and apply custom configurations and behaviours
- Use the additional features in BizTalk, such as Business Rules Engine (BRE), EDI, RFID, and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
- Create and run BizTalk Server virtual machines in the Windows Azure infrastructure as a service environment
Table of contents
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(MCTS) Microsoft BizTalk Server (70-595) Certification and Assessment Guide Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- (MCTS) Microsoft BizTalk Server (70-595) Certification and Assessment Guide Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. Configuring a Messaging Architecture
- Understanding the publish or subscribe model
- Getting started with the BizTalk Platform Settings and Applications
- Setting up and managing Ports
- Configuring core Adapters
- Configuring content-based routing
- Implementing messaging patterns
- Testing your knowledge
- Summary
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2. Developing BizTalk Artifacts – Creating Schemas and Pipelines
- Creating Schemas
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Creating Pipelines
- Pipeline Stages
- Receive Pipelines
- Default Pipelines
- Custom Pipelines
- Configuring Pipelines and Pipeline components
- Working with XML messages
- Working with XML envelopes
- Working with Flat File messages
- Working with secure data
- Custom Pipeline Components
- Testing your knowledge
- Summary
- 3. Developing BizTalk Artifacts – Creating Maps
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4. Developing BizTalk Artifacts – Creating Orchestrations
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Developing Orchestrations
- Basic shapes and configuration
- Orchestration activation
- Persistence
- Transactions
- Transaction reach
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Storing configuration information
- Orchestration variables
- Configuration placed in BTSNTSvc.exe.config
- Configuration placed in web.config for Isolated Hosts
- Configuration placed in machine.config
- Some configuration can be placed on the Adapter Handlers
- Through the message
- Through the message context
- Business Rules
- SSO
- Using a .NET helper component
- Integrating with .NET assemblies
- Configuring Orchestration bindings
- Configuring correlation
- Testing your knowledge
- Summary
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Developing Orchestrations
- 5. Testing, Debugging, and Exception Handling
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6. Deploying, Tracking, and Administrating a BizTalk Server 2010 Solution
- Installing and configuring a multiserver BizTalk environment
- Deploying BizTalk applications
- Sample deployment through an MSI package
- BizTalk Application states
- Tracking events in BizTalk Server
- Tracking Promoted Properties
- Managing BizTalk applications using BizTalk Administration Console
- BizTalk Settings Dashboard
- Testing your knowledge
- Summary
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7. Integrating Web Services and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services
- Out of the box WCF Adapters
- Configuring a WCF Adapter
- Understanding Custom behaviors
- Exposing Schemas and Orchestrations as WCF Services
- Exposing WCF Services to Windows Azure Service Bus
- Exposing only Service Metadata
- Consuming WCF Services from BizTalk Server
- Manually importing WSDL files
- Handling web exceptions
- Testing your knowledge
- Summary
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8. Implementing Extended Capabilities
- Business Rules Engine
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Electronic Data Interchange
- Finding and deploying the EDIFACT Schema
- Adding a reference to BizTalk EDI Application
- Set up a Receive Port, Receive Location, and a Send Port
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Setting up Parties and Agreements
- Examine an unrecognized message
- Set up the Parties and the Agreement for receiving
- Changing the Schema
- Set up an alternate namespace for the Agreement
- Deploy an alternate Schema
- Debatching and Error handling
- Setting up a Party and Agreement for sending
- Setting up a new Party for sending
- Send Port control
- Batching
- Business Activity Monitoring
- Testing your knowledge
- Summary
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9. Using Azure BizTalk Features
- Understanding the Windows Azure BizTalk Services
- Running BizTalk on a Windows Azure Virtual Machine
- Testing your knowledge
- Summary
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10. Test-taking – Tips and Tricks
- Understanding the difference between the exam and the assessment
- Preparing for taking a test
- At the test center
- Examining the exam structure
- Managing your time
- Answering questions
- Summary
- A. Sample Certification Test Questions
- B. Sample Certification Test Questions – Answers
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C. Testing Your Knowledge – Answers
- Chapter 1: Configuring a Messaging Architecture
- Chapter 2: Developing BizTalk Artifacts – Creating Schemas and Pipelines
- Chapter 3: Developing BizTalk Artifacts – Creating Maps
- Chapter 4: Developing BizTalk Artifacts – Creating Orchestrations
- Chapter 5: Testing, Debugging, and Exception Handling
- Chapter 6: Deploying, Tracking, and Administrating a BizTalk Server 2010 Solution
- Chapter 7: Integrating Web Services and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services
- Chapter 8: Implementing Extended Capabilities
- Chapter 9: Using Azure BizTalk Features
- Index
Product information
- Title: (MCTS) Microsoft BizTalk Server (70-595) Certification and Assessment Guide Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782172109
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