How to prepare for the BizTalk 2006 Exam. (70-235)
Well at first I started with the Testking exam. After completing the Real exam I can tell that it was a real waste of money.
The questions were completely different and in the testking exams BAM is only touched where in the real exam there where quite some questions about BAM.
Ok now ... how to prepare for this exam.
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Create a nice BizTalk solution
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Make sure you use party resolution in this solution
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Make sure you use correlation in it.
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Send a message to a webservice that require authentication.
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Use a business rule with a database fact.
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Use business rules that assert and retract
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make sure you deploy the solution
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Run messaages through it.
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See what happens if the orchestrations are not started.
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See what happens if the Rules are not deployed.
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Remeber the name of each tool you use
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Know the stages of the pipelines
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Finally Create a BAM view in Excel
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Deploy the BAM View and deploy the tracking profile
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See if it works in the BAM WebSite
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Now modify the BAM view Slightly
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Update the BAM view
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See if it works with the modified View in the BAM WebSite
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Try to do some BAMMING with continuations.
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Know your persistency points
Sometimes you are really asked of the name how a thing is called inside the designer. So you should remember them. What's the name of the BAM function (you know where you export and defina activities). What is the actual name of the place where you defina a correlation Type / Set etc.
I passed mine today. And I am happy with it.