Product Description

Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit EXAM PREP GUIDE Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-503—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time. Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to: • Define and implement service contracts • Configure client and service endpoints across transport protocols • Customize service behavior; host and expose services • Add instrumentation to services, including end-to-end tracing • Implement transport, message, and user level security • Consume services through proxies and agents • Manage the service life cycle—instances, sessions, transactions, concurrency PRACTICE TESTS Assess your skills with the practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies. Your kit includes: • 15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/13. • Official self-paced study guide. • Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results. • 225+ practice and review questions. • Code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# on CD. • 90-day trial of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. • Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices. • Fully searchable eBook of this guide. 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53350 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 640 pages

Customer Reviews

Good Study Aid
I bought this book as study guide to help in preparation for the corresponding MCTS exam (70-503). The book provides a good overview of most of the important aspects of the WCF framework and is for the most part very clear. The two chapters on security really let this book down however, they are very badly constructed and explain the concepts very poorly. Security is a very important topic which is sure to feature highly on the exam and it is for this reason I have only given 3 stars. For those targeting the MTCS certification this book provides a good guide on what to study although for a much better explanation of the various security options within WCF (and for anyone wishing to learn WCF without specifically wanting to attain the MCTS certification) I would highly recommend Michele Leroux Bustamante's book Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide.