Appendix B: Exam 70-300 Objective Mapping Document

The following table is designed to help focus your exam preparation. Each exam objective is listed in the left column, with the corresponding chapter where that objective is addressed in the right column. These objectives were current on the Microsoft site at the time of the creation of this table. Because Microsoft reserves the right to change objectives without notice, you should check the exam site prior to finalizing your exam preparation.

Exam 70-300: Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures

Microsoft Exam Objective	Located in Chapter
Envisioning the Solution
Develop a solution concept	chapter 2
Analyze the feasibility of the solution	chapter 2
Analyze the business feasibility of the solution	chapter 2
Analyze the technical feasibility of the solution	chapter 2
Analyze available organizational skills and resources	chapter 2
Analyze and refine the scope of the solution project	chapter 2
Identify the key risks	chapter 2
Gathering and Analyzing Business Requirements
Gather and analyze business requirements
Analyze the current business state	chapter 3
Analyze business processes	chapter 3
Analyze the organizational structure, both current and projected	chapter 3
Analyze vertical market position and industry position	chapter 3
Analyze personnel and training needs	chapter 3
Analyze the organizational political climate	chapter 3
Analyze business reach or scope	chapter 3
Analyze current and future regulatory requirements	chapter 3
Analyze business requirements for the solution
Identify business requirements	chapter 3
Identify dependencies, both inside and outside the company	chapter 3
Identify features of the solution	chapter 3
Define design goals, such as extensibility requirements	chapter 3
Define data requirements, types, and flows	chapter 3
Create data flow diagrams
Gather and analyze user requirements
Identify use cases	chapter 3
Identify usage scenarios for each use case
Identify globalization requirements	chapter 3
Identify localization requirements	chapter 3
Identify accessibility requirements	chapter 3
Gather and analyze operational requirements	chapter 3
Identify maintainability requirements	chapter 3
Identify scalability requirements	chapter 3
Identify availability requirements	chapter 3
Identify reliability requirements
Identify deployment requirements	chapter 3
Identify security requirements	chapter 3
Gather and analyze requirements for hardware, software and network infrastructure
Identify integration requirements	chapter 3
Analyze the IT environment, including current and projected applications, and current and projected hardware, software, and network infrastructure	chapter 3
Analyze the impact of the solution on the IT environment	Chapter 3
Developing Specifications
Transform requirements into functional specifications. Considerations include performance, maintainability, extensibility, scalability, availability, deployability, security, and accessibility	Chapter 4
Transform functional specifications into technical specifications. Considerations include performance, maintainability, extensibility, scalability, availability, deployability, security, and accessibility	Chapter 4
Select a development strategy	Chapter 4
Select strategies for auditing and logging	chapter 4
Select strategies for error handling	chapter 4
Select strategies for integration	chapter 4
Select strategies for globalization	chapter 4
Select strategies for localization	chapter 4
Select strategies for data storage	chapter 4
Select strategies for state management	chapter 4
Include constraints in the development plan to support business rules. Constraints include data validation	chapter 4
Select a deployment strategy	chapter 4
Select strategies for deployment, such as coexistence strategies	chapter 4
Select strategies for licensing	chapter 4
Select strategies for data migration	chapter 4
Select a security strategy	chapter 4
Select strategies to ensure data privacy, such as encryption, signing, and sealing	chapter 4
Select strategies to ensure secure access	chapter 4
Select an operations strategy
Select strategies for data archiving and data purging
Select strategies for upgrades
Create a support plan
Create a test plan	chapter 4
Create a user education plan	chapter 4
Creating the Conceptual Design	chapter 6
Create a conceptual model of business requirements or data requirements. Methods include Object Role Modeling (ORM)	chapter 6
Transform external information into elementary facts	chapter 6
Apply a population check to fact types	chapter 6
Identify primitive entity types in the conceptual model	chapter 6
Apply uniqueness constraints to the conceptual model	chapter 6
Apply mandatory role constraints to the conceptual model	chapter 6
Add value constraints, set comparison constraints, and subtype constraints to the conceptual model	chapter 6
Add ring constraints to the conceptual model	chapter 6
Validate the conceptual design	chapter 6
Creating the Logical Design	chapter 7
Create the logical design for the solution	chapter 7
Create the logical design for auditing and logging	chapter 7
Create the logical design for error handling	chapter 7
Create the logical design for exception handling	chapter 7
Create the logical design for integration	chapter 7
Create the logical design for globalization	chapter 7
Create the logical design for localization	chapter 7
Create the logical design for security	chapter 7
Create the logical design for data privacy. Options include encryption, signing, and sealing.	chapter 7
Include constraints in the logical design to support business rules	chapter 7
Create the logical design for the presentation layer, including the user interface (UI)	chapter 7
Create the logical design for services and components	chapter 7
Create the logical design for state management	chapter 7
Create the logical design for synchronous or asynchronous architecture	chapter 7
Create the logical data model	chapter 7
Define tables and columns	chapter 7
Normalize tables	chapter 7
Define relationships	chapter 7
Define primary and foreign keys	chapter 7
Define XML schema	chapter 7
Validate the proposed logical design	chapter 7
Review the effectiveness of the proposed logical design in meeting business requirements. Business requirements include performance, maintainability, extensibility, scalability, and accessibility	chapter 7
Validate the proposed logical design against usage scenarios	chapter 7
Create a proof of concept for the proposed logical design	chapter 7
Creating the Physical Design
Select the appropriate technologies for the physical design of the solution
Create the physical design for the solution
Create specifications for auditing and logging	chapter 8
Create specifications for error handling	chapter 8
Create specifications for physical integration	chapter 8
Create specifications for security	chapter 8
Specifications can apply to strategies for physical data privacy, such as encryption, signing, and sealing	chapter 8
Include constraints in the physical design to support business roles	chapter 8
Design the presentation layer, including the UI and online user assistance	chapter 8
Design services and components	chapter 8
Design the data flow between services	chapter 8
Design state management	chapter 8
Define the look-up data and the configuration data used by the application	chapter 8
Create the physical design for deployment
Create deployment specifications, which can include coexistence and distribution	chapter 8
Create licensing specifications	chapter 8
Create data migration specifications	chapter 8
Design the upgrade path	chapter 8
Create the physical design for maintenance	chapter 8
Design application monitoring	chapter 8
Create the physical design for the data model	chapter 8
Create an indexing specification	chapter 8
Partition Data	chapter 8
Denormalize tables	chapter 8
Validate the physical design	chapter 8
Review the effectiveness of the proposed physical design in meeting the business requirements. Business requirements include performance, maintainability, extensibility, scalability, availability, deployability, security, and accessibility	chapter 8
Validate use cases, scenario walkthroughs, and sequence diagrams	chapter 8
Create a proof of concept for the proposed physical design	chapter 8
Creating Standards and Processes
Establish standards. Standards can apply to development, documentation, coding, code review, UI, and testing	Chapter 9
Establish processes. Processes include reviewing development documentation, reviewing code, creating builds, tracking issues, managing source code, managing change, managing release, and establishing maintenance tasks. Methods include Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Templates	chapter 9
Establish quality and performance metrics to evaluate project control, organizational performance, and return on investment	chapter 9