WCF Certification (70-503) is mine!!! Now I’m a certified (MCPD) Enterprise Application Developer

If you were wondering why there was a silence on my blog – I was preparing for a battle with the Prometric testing computer And I Won!!! Last week I’ve passed my LAST (for the near future) certification exam: Windows Communication Foundation. This gave me another MCT certification -

And finally enabled my long overdue certification MCPD Enterprise Application Developer.

To those who are looking into passing this certification you may use the following materials that I found very helpful (after the break):

MSDN Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation Top to Bottom

by Michele Leroux Bustamante, writer of the “Learning WCF” book by O’Reilly

Part 01: Overview (Level 100)
Part 02: Contracts (Level 200)
Part 03: Contract Versioning (Level 200)
Part 04: Exceptions and Faults (Level 200)
Part 05: Bindings (Level 200)
Part 06: Hosting (Level 200)
Part 07: Messaging Patterns (Level 200)
Part 08: Instancing Modes (Level 200)
Part 09: Concurrency, Throughput, and Throttling (Level 200)
Part 10: Security Fundamentals (Level 200)
Part 11: Federated Security (Level 200)
Part 12: Reliable Messaging (Level 200)
Part 13: Transactions (Level 200)
Part 14: Message Queuing (Level 200)
Part 15: Extensibility (Level 200)

 

Mike Taulty’s Screencasts: Windows Communication Foundation

Bindings

Type Serialization

DataContract Serialization

Message Encoding
Sessions
Instancing
Message Patterns
Exceptions
Concurrency
Typed and Untyped Messages
HTTPS Transport Security
Transactions
Message Security
Durable Services with WCF V3.5
Using HTTP, XML and JSON in WCF V3.5
Durable Services with WCF V3.5
Offering Syndicated RSS/ATOM Data from WCF V3.5 Services

 

and more …

Using Windows CardSpace with WCF by Dominick Baier

MSDN Webcast: RESTful Services with WCF 3.5 SP1

Part 1: Concepts and Introduction (Level 200)
Part 2: Security and Scalability (Level 200)

 

Great series of articles of fine-tuning WCF performance by Rick Rainey:

WCF Instancing, Concurrency, and Throttling – Part 1
WCF Instancing, Concurrency, and Throttling – Part 2
WCF Instancing, Concurrency, and Throttling – Part 3

 

and much much more … (hint: Google

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