How to prepare for 70-503 exam.

The Microsoft test 70-503 measures an individual’s ability to develop distributed applications by using technologies such as XML Web services, .NET remoting, and Windows enterprise services. The individual must have a sound knowledge of Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 to build distributed applications. Before taking the 70-503 test, you should practice the following:

1. Define Service, Data, Operation, and Message contracts.
2. Process generic messages.
3. Create and configure service endpoints.
4. Manage consistency between life cycle, sessions, concurrency, and binds.
5. Host a service in a managed application.
6. Host a service on a Web server.
7. Create custom behaviors.
8. Implement end-to-end service trace.
9. Monitor service health and log messages.
10. Dynamically configure the service by using the service model.
11. Implement inspectors.
12. Create a service proxy.
13. Configure the client endpoint.
14. Call a service by using a service proxy.
15. Handle exceptions on clients.
16. Consume non-WCF services.
17. Implement transport-level and message-level security.
18. Authenticate, authorize, and impersonate clients.
19. Manage instances, sessions, transactions, and concurrency.
20. Manage consistency between instances, sessions, transactions, and concurrency.

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