TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Communication Foundation

Exam 70-503:

• TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Communication Foundation

Audience Profile

Candidates for Exam 70-503: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Communication Foundation Application Development work on a team in a development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 to build distributed applications. Candidates should have at least one year of experience developing distributed applications by using technologies such as XML Web services, .NET Remoting, and Windows enterprise services. Additionally, candidates should be able to demonstrate the following by using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

• A solid understanding of WCF in the context of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 solution stack
• Experience creating service model elements
• Experience using WCF to support Web services specifications standards
• Experience integrating WCF services with Windows enterprise services such as Message Queuing (MSMQ) and COM+
• Experience configuring and deploying WCF applications

Credit Toward CertificationExam 70-503: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Communication Foundation: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):

• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Communication Foundation Applications
• Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD): Enterprise Application Developer 3.5

Skills Being Measured

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.

Creating Services (19 percent)

• Define Service contracts.
• Define Data contracts.
• Define Operation contracts.
• Define Message contracts.
• Process generic messages.

Exposing and Deploying Services (23 percent)

• Create and configure service endpoints.
• Manage consistency between life cycle, sessions, concurrency, and bindings.
• Host a service in a managed application.
• Host a service on a Web server.
• Create custom behaviors.

Instrumenting and Administering Services (11 percent)

• Implement end-to-end service tracing.
• Monitor service health.
• Log messages.
• Dynamically configure the service by using the service model.
• Implement inspectors.

Consuming Services (16 percent)

• Create a service proxy.
• Configure the client endpoint.
• Call a service by using a service proxy.
• Handle exceptions on clients.
• Consume non-WCF services.

Securing Services (16 percent)

• Implement transport-level security.
• Implement message-level security.
• Authenticate clients.
• Authorize clients.
• Impersonate clients.

Managing the Service Life Cycle (15 percent)

• Manage instances.
• Manage sessions.
• Manage transactions.
• Manage concurrency
• Manage consistency between instances, sessions, transactions, and concurrency.