Re: Is there any UML in 70-300

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. It cleared many confusions. All this
means that I need to have a real life practical knowledge of how to provide
solutions to customers using different MS Technologies/Products.

About the testing question. Why it is not correct to ask about? I am not
very clear on NDA but all I wanted to know is that if I need to have the
practical working knowledge of using various testing tools available in the
market (and there are many). Just like you said that only SQL Server 2000 is
used in the exam so now I know that I need to study SQL Server in depth and
not to worry too much about Oracle.

Thanks again. Take care.

"Mark" <" wrote:

1. Is it required to have the knowledge of SQL Server Management/Maintenance?

the case studies are sure to include the use of sql server 2000, as this
is the recommended rdbms to be used in .net/msf solutions. you need
real world expereience of including this dbms in your solution designs.

2. Apart from RDBMS, what other Data Models are included in the exam?

not sure what you mean by this. i don't think there'd be much on
hierarchical DBMSs or OODBMSs/ORDBMSs, if that's what you mean. only
sql server's used (specifically 2000 for this exam) and as far as i
know, sql server only supports the relational model.

3. How much stress is given on MSF? I have some links to sites/blogs on MSF
and I have downloaded the MSF Whitepapers from MS site but I dont have any
book specially devoted to MSF.

lots! see http://www.codeclinic.com/70-300skills.htm you really need
to know msf and should really have a couple of years real world
experience using it on real projects. that's what the exam expects of
you. i feel this exam is much different from the others (i've just
failed it --first exam of 5 in a row that i passed well on). with the
others you could (if you chose) just learn the material and take the
exam, but this exam really does test your real world experience of
*using* all these technologies together in concert to provide real world
mission critical sytems.

4. How much in depth should I know about testing? Are there questions based
on specific testing tools?

be careful asking people this type of question, as you're effectively
asking people that have sat the exam to disclose (part of) the content
of one or more questions.

you need to know your msf stuff, which covers testing in depth.

5. What about technologies like BizTalk Server, Exchange Server, Commerce
Server etc.?

very good question. i was caught out a bit by this. i came across a
questions in a practice test that assumed working knowledge of MS Host
Integration Server and a couple of others i forget now. this goes some
way to prove that you not only need to know your stuff, but also have
the experience of integrating w/ other MS products such as those you
mention. so the answer is "yes".

a strong element of the exam is knowing how to best serve a customer's
needs. it might be better, for example, for a client to maintain some
of their legacy mainframe computers and use MS HIS to interface w/ them
whilst only replacing part of their overall suite of systems/apps w/ a
new .net solution.


mark

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