Useful links for Exam 70-667: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring

Note: The objective of the post is to find all the useful links for the 70-573 exam. I would keep on adding as I find them.

Installing and Configuring a SharePoint Environment (25 percent)

• Deploy new installations and upgrades.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: running Visual Upgrade, performing an in-place upgrade, performing a database attach upgrade, analyzing a PreUpgradeCheck report, installing language packs, and scripting installations; analyzing ULS logs, installation error logs, and event logs to identify installation problems; and repairing installation errors
• Configure SharePoint farms.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring inter-server communications, server roles, high availability, InfoPath Forms Services (IPFS), Alternate Access Mappings (AAM), external sites, host headers, and applying and managing patches

• Configure service applications.

  • This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring service applications such as Business Connectivity Services (BCS), Access Services, Visio Services, Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, user profiles, Microsoft Office Excel services, Managed Metadata Services (MMS), and IPFS
• Configure indexing and search.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring FAST Search for SharePoint, crawl schedules, iFilters, crawl rules, content sources, scopes, managed properties, content types, search components, index partitioning, and federated search locations

Managing a SharePoint Environment (26 percent)

• Manage operational settings.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring logging, quotas, monitoring levels, health reports, security, and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) integration
• Manage accounts and user roles.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: managing user accounts, group accounts, managed accounts, computer accounts, and service accounts; and delegating site collection administration
• Manage authentication providers.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: managing NTLM, Kerberos, claims-based, and forms-based authentication; and configuring Secure Store Service (SSS) and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)

Deploying and Managing Applications (24 percent)

• Manage Web Applications.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: managing databases, Web Application settings, security, and policies
• Manage site collections.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: managing site collection policies, features, caching, and auditing; configuring site collection security; configuring multi-tenancy; and configuring site collection quotas and locks
• Deploy and manage SharePoint solutions.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: deploying and managing SharePoint solution packages, managing sandbox solutions, and managing user solutions

Maintaining a SharePoint Environment (25 percent)

• Back up and restore a SharePoint environment.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring backup settings; backing up and restoring content, search, and service application databases; detaching and attaching databases; and exporting lists and sites
• Monitor and analyze a SharePoint environment.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: generating health, administrative, and Web analytics reports; interpreting usage and trace logs; identifying and resolving health and performance issues
• Optimize the performance of a SharePoint environment.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring resource throttling (large list management, object model override); configuring remote Binary Large Objects (BLOB) storage and BLOB and object caching; and optimizing services

Useful links for Exam 70-573: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development

Note: The objective of the post is to find all the useful links for the 70-573 exam. I would keep on adding as I find them.

Working with the SharePoint User Interface (19%)

• Manage SPSite and SPWeb programmatically by using Visual Studio 2010

This objective may include but is not limited to: creating sub webs, referencing SPFiles, manipulating property bag, when to call Update, referencing SPContext, SPSite, SPWeb,  SPSite.OpenWeb, SPWeb.Webs, feature activiation and deactivation. This objective does not include: trivial cases such as setting title and other loose properties of the objects

• Implement a dialog by using the Dialog Framework

This objective may include but is not limited to: Create dialogs from JavaScript or from server side, display dialogs

• Create a custom ribbon object

This objective may include but is not limited to: adding custom actions to the ribbon, customizing groups, customizing tabs, customizing the existing ribbon

• Customize navigation programmatically
  This objective may include but is not limited to: TopNav bar, quick launch, custom actions

This objective does not include: custom menu controls, custom site map providers

• Create and apply branding to a SharePoint site
  This objective may include but is not limited to: applying custom master pages to content pages and application pages, placeholders, page layouts, programmatically working with themes, deploying CSS, CSSlink, ScriptLink

This objective does not include: graphic design, creating a CSS

Developing Web Parts and Controls (21%)

• Create Web Parts
  This objective may include but is not limited to: including properties, controls using Render vs. CreateChildControl, life cycle,  visual, standard Web Parts,  

This objective does not include: trivial case where developer uses Visual Web Part project template

• Create connectable Web Parts

This objective may include but is not limited to: Implement consumer/provider interfaces

• Debug Web Parts

This objective may include but is not limited to: ULS log, and event log, debug.log tracing, developer dashboard

• Create and implement delegate controls

This objective may include but is not limited to: overriding existing controls with lower sequence, developing and using .ascx files

Developing Business Logic (19%)

• Implement a custom workflow in Visual Studio 2010
  This objective may include but is not limited to: work with inititation data or association data to create a SharePoint task, extend a workflow imported from SharePoint Designer 2010, use a HandleExternalEvent and CallExternalMethod to interact with a custom local service, work with inititation data or association data in a site workflow, corelation token

This objective does not include: trivial cases such as workflows with no custom actions, initiation data, association data.

• Create a custom workflow action

This objective may include but is not limited to: create a custom SPD action, create and add a custom activity to a Visual Studio workflow, define an action.xml file

• Create and implement event receivers

This objective may include but is not limited to: accessing event properties, list, item, site, email, avoiding recursion, cancelling events, choosing synchronization state

• Customize Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
  This objective may include but is not limited to: creating a content type that inherit from appropriate parent, creating and implementing a custom publishing field control that is page mode aware, activating a master page programmatically including token usage

This objective does not include: page layouts, formatting

• Create, implement and debug a Timer Job

This objective may include but is not limited to: configuration, programmatic scheduling, queueing, attaching debugger to the Timer service

• Create and modify Business Connectivity Service model in Visual Studio 2010

This objective may include but is not limited to: create a BDC model in Visual Studio 2010, define insert, update and delete methods, create and read items, make data searchable

• Manage Users, Groups, Permissions

This objective may include but is not limited to: SPGroups, SPUser, permission inheritance, all securable objects, SPRoleDefinition, SPRole, SPRoleAssignment

Working With SharePoint Data (22%)

• Access list data by using the Server object model

This objective may include but is not limited to: SPQuery, LINQ, SPList, SPSiteDataQuery, schema management, working with a query Governor, create LINQ query that includes a join statement, SPQuery Vs. SPSiteDataQuery

• Access SharePoint Data by using WCF Data Services

This objective may include but is not limited to: WCF ListData.svc, RESTFUL URLs conventions, create and use a client service reference

• Access (CRUD) data by using the Client Object Model

This objective may include but is not limited to: Javascript, .NET, Silverlight, Build Silverlight User Interface for SharePoint using Client Object Model, Query data by using CAML over the Client Object Model in Silverlight, non data API (site, web, list, access)

• Work with documents programmatically

This objective may include but is not limited to: SPFile, SPFolder, SPVersion, upload document and set meta data

• Work with the meta data

This objective may include but is not limited to: Access data from user profiles, taxonomy, folksonomy

• Extending SharePoint Search

This objective may include but is not limited to: creating a custom query using full text query or keyword query, customize the look and feel of the search result using XSLT

• Implement and debug code that executes in an alternative security context

This objective may include but is not limited to: create code that uses the RunWithElevatedPrivileges delegate (including debugging), create code that uses the System Account, create code that impersonate a different user

• Create and modify a custom content type

This objective may include but is not limited to: declaratively and programmatically creating and upgrading content type using Visual Studio 2010, modifying an exisiting content type, site columns

Stabilizing and Deploying SharePoint Components (19%)

• Manage a solution in Visual Studio 2010

This objective may include but is not limited to: modify the contained features in the solution, add an assembly that is not included in the visual studio solution, manage mapped folders for localization, sandbox and farm solutions, customize manifest.xml 

• Manage a feature by using Visual Studio 2010
  This objective may include but is not limited to: upgrading, localizing, versioning, developing features, feature receivers (activating and installing) that interact with their parent object, customizing feature.xml

This objective does not include: features without elements

• Store and retrieve configuration data

This objective may include but is not limited to:  App config, web config, persisted object, list, xml, file system, cookies, property bag

• Create a site definition by using Visual Studio 2010
  This objective may include but is not limited to: feature activation, site provisioning, localization

This objective does not include: list definitions and modules defined in ONET.xml, SharePoint Designer

• Manage SharePoint object life cycle by using the Dispose API

This objective may include but is not limited to: SPWeb, SPContext, IDisposable, Try…Catch…Finally, using blocks

• Develop, debug, and deploy sandboxed solutions

This objective may include but is not limited to: APIs that are allowed or not allowed in sandbox, use a full trust proxy