Microsoft® Commerce Server 2000 Design and Implementation Part 2: Users, Objects and Catalogs CBT Training CD

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Summary: Microsoft® Commerce Server 2000 Design and Implementation
Review: Course Overview
This is the second course in a five part series that covers the importance of user authentication and how to set up identification, authentication, and profiling systems for anonymous and registered users. The course also focuses on catalogs in a Commerce Server Web site, the tools used to create one, and the skills required to build Web pages to browse and search catalogs.

Learn To

Identify benefits of user identification, authentication, and profiling in Commerce Server 2000.
Identify features of authentication systems in Commerce Server 2000.
Identify properties and default profiles for user authentication in the Commerce Server 2000 (CS) Authentication resource.
Identify features of the Commerce Server 2000 object model.
Match general purpose programming objects with their functions.
Identify features of Commerce Server 2000 dictionaries.

Audience
The intended audience for this course includes Professional Web Developers. These developers will have experience creating Web sites by using Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic Scripting Edition or JavaScript, data connectivity, client-server concepts and technologies (Internet Information services (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server (tm)) and COM+. Suggest knowledge of Web development, databases, datawarehousing, VB, COM and e-commerce concepts. This course prepares learners for exam 70-234. In addition, learners should have taken the first part of this series 74116.

Deployment Options
e-Learning

Accreditation
NASBA credits: 4 CPE Credits
CEU credits: 0.70 CEUs

Language Options
US English

Total Learning Time
6 to 8 hours

Objectives
Unit 1: Identifying and Authenticating Users 3 - 4 hours

Identify benefits of user identification, authentication, and profiling in Commerce Server 2000.
Identify features of authentication systems in Commerce Server 2000.
Identify properties and default profiles for user authentication in the Commerce Server 2000 (CS) Authentication resource.
Sequence the steps in the anonymous user authentication process.
Identify features of AuthManager and AuthFilter.
Set AuthFilter to Autocookie mode by using Commerce Server Manager.
Sequence the steps to create an MSCSProfile cookie.
Identify the syntax used to create a user profile with the CreateProfile method of the ProfileService object.
Enable Internet Information Services (IIS) logging by using Internet Services Manager.
Add a user profile by using the User module of Business Desk.
Update an organization profile.
Extend a profile by adding a property.
Identify considerations for managing stale accounts.
Identify the syntax for retrieving user information from cookies.
Identify features of the registered user system.
Sequence the stages to add properties to the user profile object.
Identify requirements for creating a signup page.
Sequence the steps to build a login page.
Identify features of state management in Commerce Server 2000.

Unit 2: Commerce Server Objects and Catalogs 3 - 4 hours

Identify features of the Commerce Server 2000 object model.
Match general purpose programming objects with their functions.
Identify features of Commerce Server 2000 dictionaries.
Identify syntax for using the Dictionary object.
Create a site term by using the Site Term Editor.
Identify features of catalog design in Commerce Server 2000.
Sequence the steps to define a catalog schema.
Create a property definition to describe the products in a catalog.
Create a product definition by using Business Desk.
Create a category definition by using Business Desk.
Create a new catalog from a catalog schema.
Add a category to a catalog by using Business Desk.
Add a product to a catalog by using Business Desk.
Identify considerations for managing products by using Catalog Editor.
Create a custom catalog by using Business Desk.
Identify guidelines for importing product data into catalog files.
Import an existing catalog into Commerce Server 2000.
Create a catalog set.
Match the Commerce Server 2000 objects used to display catalogs with their features.
Identify the syntax used to read a catalog connection string.
Identify syntax for displaying catalog lists.
Identify syntax to display root categories in a catalog.
Identify syntax to display a product list.
Identify syntax to display product details.
Identify syntax to display product details by using product attributes.
Identify features of the CatalogManager object properties and methods.
Identify features of Commerce Server 2000 error pages.
Identify features of search types.
Identify syntax to create a form for performing free-text searches on a Web site.
Identify syntax to perform a specification search in a catalog.
Identify features of the Least Recently Used (LRU) cache.
Sequence the steps to initialize the Least Recently Used (LRU) cache.
Identify syntax to use the Least Recently Used Cache (LRU) Cache.