What the Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework Exam (70-310) Covers

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The Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework exam covers four major topic areas: Creating and Managing Microsoft Windows Services, Serviced Components, .NET Remoting Objects, and XML Web Services; Consuming and Manipulating Data; Testing and Debugging; and Deploying Windows Services, Serviced Components, .NET Remoting Objects, and XML Web Services. The exam objectives are listed by topic area in the following sections.

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.

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, Microsoft .NET Passport, custom authentication, and none.
Configure and control authorization. Authorization methods include file-based authorization and URL-based authorization.
Configure and implement identity management.

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