IT Certification
(MCSE, A+, CCIE, etc)

Microsoft MCSD Exam 70-320

Video Instructor-Led Format

Audience	Administrators, Application developers, programmers, project leaders and other technical individuals that need to acquire the necessary skills to pass the Microsoft Certified Systems Developer exam 70-320 series.
Duration	6 CDs
Course Abstract	In this course, you will build a solid foundation for the development of Web services and gain an understanding of how commonly used protocols can impact your development effort. You will learn how to create and consume ASP.NET Web services, describe your Web service so that others can use it, and publish the details of your Web services exposed method. You will also discover how current and evolving standards, such as XML Schema and WS-Security, can be integrated into Web service development.
Price	Single User (CDROM) $595.00 Singe User (eLearning Portal) $425.00 Multi-User LAN (2-5 users) $1019.00 more than 5 users Call for Pricing
Program Includes	The following components are included in this course: 6 CDs featuring live instructor-led classroom sessions with full audio, video and demonstration components Over 400 pages of corresponding Courseware on CD-ROM Hands-on labs to reinforce important concepts Focused on practical solutions to real-world development problems Comprehensive, understandable, and reusable as reference material Certificate of Completion
Course Experts	Scott Anderson, MCT, CTT+, MCSD.NET, MCSE, MCDBA, MCSA Scott Anderson of IT Centers, LLC has over 10 years training and consulting experience in the IT industry. He has developed software solutions for Fortune 1000 companies in America and Europe. His client list includes Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Northern New Jersey, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina, CIGNA, Prudential Insurance Company and New York Life Insurance Company. Scott's experience in the IT industry has stemmed from developing solutions from a vendor neutral stance, thereby providing the best possible technology result. Scott instructs MCSD.NET classroom-based Boot Camps and Seminars across the United States.
Course Topics	The following list represents the sections and topics discussed in this virtual instructor-led course offering.
	Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPING XML WEB SERVICES USING MICROSOFT ASP.NET OVERVIEW MICROSOFT OFFICIAL CURRICULUM COURSE OUTLINE Chapter 1: The Need for XML Web Services Chapter 2: XML Web Service Architectures Chapter 3: The Underlying Technologies of XML Web Services Three foundational technologies: HTTP, XML, SOAP .NET Framework built-in support for these technologies Chapter 4: Consuming XML Web Services How to implement a web service consumer Description documents: WSDL, DISCO Chapter 5: Implementing a Simple XML Web Service Chapter 6: Deploying and Publishing XML Web Services Deployment using a Web Setup project How to publish in the UDDI registry Chapter 7: Securing XML Web Services Chapter 8: Designing XML Web Services Chapter 9: Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) Limitations of the current specification Anticipating future specifications and features THE NEED FOR XML WEB SERVICES OVERVIEW Evolution of Distributed Applications Unique design considerations of distributed applications Introducing Web Services The Web Technology Stack and .NET The .NET Alternatives to Web Services Common Web Service Scenarios   EVOLUTION OF DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS Introduction What is a distributed application? Why do we need distributed applications? Cost of mainframes Data ownership Security This led to Distributed applications being used as service providers The next step was to enable Distributed applications to utilize the Web Problems with Traditional Distributed Applications Introduction Two of the architectures that enabled dist app dev RPC-Based Architectures Message-Based Architectures Web Standards and their effect on dist apps Design Considerations for Distributed Applications Introduction Data types that are not compatible across different systems Server failures or loss of server response Client failures Retrying a call Security Synchronizing clocks between multiple computers   RPC-BASED ARCHITECTURES Introduction What is a Remote Procedure Call (RPC)? All calls are Synchronous calls Problems with RPC-based architectures Building redundancy Aggregate availability Load balancing and fail over Prioritization Load spikes   MESSAGE-BASED ARCHITECTURES Introduction Asynchronous processing based on the exchange of messages Message calls can be routed based on load and priority Allow the client to continue working while waiting on a response Problems with message-based architectures Message payload processing Interoperability Workflows and message sequencing   WEB STANDARDS Introduction Problems with binary protocols DCOM, Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI), and common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) rely on binary protocols Firewalls Interoperability Data Formats This led to the development of Web protocols and data formats   HTML HTTP XML Problems with the Web protocols Security Performance   WEB SERVICES Introduction What are Web services? Based on Internet technologies   HTTP XML Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Governed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Building blocks No restriction on the level of granularity. Can provide access to static resources or be fully interactive applications Can aggregate other web services Are the future of distributed applications Provide interoperability through the use of SOAP Multilanguage support Promote reuse Based upon industry supported standards   THE WEB TECHNOLOGY STACK AND .NET Introduction TCP/IP Sockets HTTP XML or binary formats SOAP   .NET ALTERNATIVES TO WEB SERVICES Introduction Stand-alone listeners Can use a pre-written ISAPI filter to handle low-level communication Can write a server application to monitor the port Custom protocol handlers .NET remoting   COMMON WEB SERVICE SCENARIOS ASP/Hosted applications tend have the following characteristics App is viewed as a portal App exists in an isolated environment Each subscriber has their own instance of the app Subscribers do not share data ASPs usually require hosted apps to Application integration Chapter 2 OVERVIEW SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE Introduction To build flexible, robust dist apps, you should ensure: Meeting these requirements, results in: Primary roles in a service-oriented architecture Service provider Service consumer Service broker These roles interact to perform three basic operations Find services ? service consumers find services by using a service broker   WEB SERVICES ARCHITECTURES AND SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE Introduction Overview of Web Service Architectures Basic elements in a web service are Web Services as an Implementation of a Service-Oriented Architecture Demonstration: An Electronic Funds Transfer Web Service   ROLES IN A WEB SERVICES ARCHITECTURE Introduction The Web Service Provider Must support the .NET Common Language Runtime Examples of Web service providers The Web Service Consumer Must be able to locate the web service Must be able to use WSDL documents to generate Proxy classes Must support Asynchronous calls Example of Web service consumers The Web Service Broker Interaction between brokers and providers Interaction between brokers and consumers UDDI registries   THE WEB SERVICES PROGRAMMING MODEL Chapter 3 OVERVIEW Introduction HTTP Fundamentals Using HTTP with the .NET Framework XML Essentials XML Serialization in the .NET Framework SOAP Fundamentals Using SOAP with the .NET Framework   HTTP FUNDAMENTALS Overview of HTTP Resources are located through a URL. Syntax HTTP is a Stateless protocol Structures of HTTP Requests and Responses HTTP Requests use the following format Supported methods include GET, POST, TRACE, CONNECT HTTP Responses use the following format: The GET and POST Methods Introduction   HTTP GET HTTP POST USING HTTP WITH THE .NET FRAMEWORK .NET Classes for Working with HTTP   XML ESSENTIALS Introduction Overview of XML XML documents contain elements and attributes XML documents must be Well-formed Schema XSD Fundamentals Introduction Simple and complex types Groups Compositors Derivation Restriction Extension   XML SERIALIZATION IN THE .NET FRAMEWORK Introduction Caveat   SOAP FUNDAMENTALS Overview of SOAP SOAP messages Parts of a SOAP message SOAP envelope SOAP encoding rules SOAP RPC representation Protocol bindings for HTTP and HTTP-EF SOAP Envelope SOAP Header SOAP Body SOAP Fault   CONTROLLING THE SOAP MESSAGE FORMAT Introduction SOAP encoding definitions Formatting the SOAP body RPC encoding Document encoding (default) Formatting parameters Chapter 4 OVERVIEW Introduction WSDL Documents Web Service Discovery Web Service Proxies Implementing a Web Service Consumer Using Visual Studio .NET   WSDL DOCUMENTS What is WSDL? Primary child elements of a WSDL document The types element The message element The portType element Primary child elements of a WSDL document The binding element The service element   WEB SERVICE DISCOVERY What is Disco? Two ways to discover available web services Static discovery Dynamic discovery Dynamic discovery disabled WS-Inspection Locating Discovery Documents Using Disco.exe Introduction Syntax Uses for Disco.exe Programmatic Discovery   WEB SERVICE PROXIES Introduction Proxies and WSDL Introduction Why are proxies needed? Using WSDL to generate proxies Generating Proxies Using Wsdl.exe Syntax for invoking Wsdl.exe Proxy class details Configuring Proxies Url property Credentials property Timeout property Proxy property AllowAutoRedirect property   IMPLEMENTING A WEB SERVICE CONSUMER USING VISUAL STUDIO .NET Implementing a Console Client Create a console application Add a Web reference Invoke the Web service by using the proxy Implementing a Web Forms Client Create an ASP.NET Web application Add a Web reference Invoke the Web service by using the proxy Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Clients Introduction Limitations of synchronous calls Making asynchronous calls using the proxy Implementing an XML Web Service Consumer Using Visual Studio .NET Chapter 5 IMPLEMENTING A SIMPLE XML WEB SERVICE OVERVIEW CREATING A WEB SERVICE PROJECT Creating a Web Service Project Examining the Parts of a Web Service Project Introduction References System namespace System.Web namespace System.Data namespace System.Web.Services namespace System.XML namespace .asmx file Service Help page Serice Method Help page Service Description page Global.asax Web.config The .vsdisco file AssemblyInfo (.cs or .vb) The /bin folder   IMPLEMENTING WEB SERVICE METHODS Exposing Web Service Methods Specify that the method is public Apply the WebMethod attribute to the method. Web Method Attributes BufferResponse CacheDuration Description EnableSession MessageName TransactionOption Examining Data Types and Parameter Lists Introduction Simple data types Input and output parameters Variable length parameter lists Complex data types Classes and structures Arrays Collections DataSets Creating a Typed DataSet Using the Component Designer Generate a SqlDataAdapter Use the SqlDataAdapter to create a typed DataSet Creating a Typed DataSet Using the XML Designer Add an XML schema to the project Add an XML simpleType element to the schema Add an XML complexType element to the schema Creating a Typed DataSet Using the XML Designer Add an XML element to the project Generate the typed DataSet class View the generated DataSet   MANAGING STATE IN AN ASP.NET WEB SERVICE Introduction Application State ASP.NET provides support for application state through: Using application state Contents and StaticObjects Application state synchronization Session State ASP.NET provides the following support for session state: Identifying a session Using session state Session state collections Session state configuration Cookieless sessions   DEBUGGING WEB SERVICES Debug, Trace, and Switch Classes Debug Trace Switches Listeners TextWriterTraceListener ? output to a stream EventLogTraceListener ? output to an event log DefaultTraceListener ? output to the output window Configuring Debug and Trace Settings Interactive debugging Tracing Configuring a TraceSwitch Configuring listeners SOAP Extensions and Tracing Introduction SOAP extensions Tracing using SOAP extensions Performing Tracing Using a SoapExtension View a SoapExtension class View the output from a SoapExtension class Tools for Debugging Web Applications Introduction Page-level tracing Application-level tracing Writing to an event log Performance counters Chapter 6 DEPLOYING AND PUBLISHING XML WEB SERVICES OVERVIEW DEPLOYING WEB SERVICES Introduction Files Required for Deploying Web Service Deploying Web Services Manually When to deploy Web services manually Web services can be deployed manually by using: IIS settings are not copied to target Web server Deploying Web Services Using Windows Installer Files Creating a Web Setup Project   OVERVIEW OF UDDI Introduction What Is UDDI? A collection of specifications UDDI Programmer?s API Specification UDDI Data Structure Specification UDDI registry implementations Why Use UDDI? Information provided by UDDI   PUBLISHING A WEB SERVICE ON AN INTRANET Custom publish/discover solutions Implement UDDI Services in Windows Server 2003 Hard-coded endpoints Overview of Using UDDI UDDI Data Structures Installing the UDDI SDK Privately on an intranet Jointly on an extranet Publicly on the Internet Setting a Reference to the UDDI DLL Set a reference to the Microsoft.Uddi.dll file Include the UDDI namespaces in you code files   PUBLISHING A WEB SERVICE Introduction Configuring a Web Service for Publication Configuring discovery Permissions and security policy Configuring assemblies Localizing a Web service Publishing a Web Service Programmatically USING UDDI Finding a UDDI Registry Retrieving Array Contents of UddiSiteLocation Object Connecting to a UDDI Registry The UddiConnection object supports two methods of authentication Windows Integrated Authentication UDDI Authentication Locate a business Finding a Web Service Retrieve binding information Bind to the Web service Chapter 7 OVERVIEW OVERVIEW OF SECURITY Authentication vs. Authorization Authentication Authorization Types of Authentication IIS Authentication ASP .NET authentication Forms authentication Passport authentication Custom SOAP header authentication Types of Authorization Windows NT security Role-based security Code access security Configured ASP .NET authorization Methods of Encryption Introduction   BUILT-IN AUTHENTICATION Introduction Basic and Digest Authentication Basic authentication Digest authentication Integrated Windows Authentication Limitations Characteristics Using IIS Authentication on a Web Server IIS Server must be configured to support authentication Configuring an ASP.NET Web service Accessing user identity in a Web service Providing credentials   CUSTOM AUTHENTICATION USING SOAP HEADERS Introduction Using a SOAP Header in a Web Service Consumer SOAP headers are specified in the WSDL document Web service proxies and SOAP headers Remember to disable other authentication types   AUTHORIZATION USING ROLE-BASED SECURITY Introduction Identities Introduction Generic Identity WindowsIdentity Principals What are roles? Custom principal Principals and call context Using WindowsIdentity and WindowsPrincipal Objects Using GenericIdentity and GenericPrincipal Objects Introduction Creating and initializing a GenericIdentity object Creating and initializing a GenericPrincipal object Saving the current principal Authentication and Authorization with Http Modules Introduction Http Application events and Http Modules Authentication using HttpModules Authorization after authentication   AUTHORIZATION USING CODE ACCESS SECURITY Introduction Code Access Security Fundamentals Evidence-based security Code access permissions Code groups Policy levels Named permission sets Code Access Security in ASP.NET Web Services Identifying permissions required by your code Requesting permissions in your code   ENCRYPTION Introduction Using SSL What are X.509 certificates? How to enable SSL on a Web server Using Custom SOAP Extensions Introduction The DESCryptoServiceProvider class The CryptoStream class Encryption using SOAP extensions   SECURING XML WEB SERVICES Chapter 8 OVERVIEW DATA TYPE CONSTRAINTS Introduction Protocol constraints Structures vs. classes Typed vs. untyped datasets Arrays vs. collections Exceptions   PERFORMANCE Introduction General Considerations Caching Guidelines Locking Making asynchronous calls Measuring performance and behavior Unnecessary code .NET-Specific Considerations Disable session state Choose an appropriate state provider Avoid exceptions Use native database providers Use ASP.NET Web gardening Disable debug mode Caching in Web Services Output caching Data caching Controlling caching File and key-based dependencies Expiration policies Item priorities Removal notification Scenarios Asynchronous Server-Side Methods Implementing asynchronous WebMethods Appropriate uses   RELIABILITY Introduction Availability Process isolation to reduce the risk of unintended interactions Process recovery model Measurement Performance counters WMI   VERSIONING Introduction Versioning assemblies Versioning WSDL documents Versioning request or response payload   AGGREGATING WEB SERVICES Introduction Aggregated Web Service Scenarios Gateways to Web services Simple interfaces to complex Web services Portals to Web services Designing a Web Service for Aggregation Protocol considerations Handling non-interactive clients Designing for ISPs & ASPs Self-repair and remote repair Implementing an Aggregated XML Web Service Chapter 9 OVERVIEW INTRODUCTION TO GXA Limitations of Web Services Web services are used today to Tomorrow?s Web services need to Interoperate across multiple organizations Problems that baseline standards (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI) do not solve Overview of Global XML Web Services Architecture Design tenets of GXA Released specifications (October 2001) Future protocols Global XML Web Services Architecture   ROUTING AND REFERRAL WS-Routing and WS-Referral SOAP message processing model WS-Routing WS-Referral Routing Scenario   SECURITY AND LICENSING WS-Security and WS-License WS-Security WS-License Security Factoring and Authorization Scenario