Microsoft® Commerce Server 2000 Design and Implementation Part 3: Pipelines CBT Training CD

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Summary: Microsoft® Commerce Server 2000 Design and Implementation
Review: Course Overview
This is the third course in a five part series that focuses on pipelines and their use in running ad campaigns. It covers how to define and run a pipeline in Microsoft Commerce Server 2000, and how to create custom components - Scriptor and Compiled - that can be added to a pipeline. The course also covers the code used to implement campaigns built and designed by Commerce Server 2000.

Learn To

Identify features of a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline.
Match Commerce Server 2000 pipeline types with their functions.
Create a new Commerce Server 2000 pipeline.
Configure a Scriptor component property.
Add script to a Scriptor component.
View the Scriptor component code.
Identify the stages of the Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
Create a new Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
Identify characteristics of the advertising selection process.

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 two parts of this series 74116 and 74117.

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: Commerce Server 2000 Pipelines 2 - 3 hours

Identify features of a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline.
Match Commerce Server 2000 pipeline types with their functions.
Create a new Commerce Server 2000 pipeline.
Insert a new stage into a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline.
Add a prebuilt component to a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline stage.
Add a custom built component to a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline stage.
Configure a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline component.
Match Product pipeline stages with their descriptions.
Match the stages of the Plan pipeline with their descriptions.
Match the stages of the Purchase pipeline with their descriptions.
Identify considerations for setting pipeline component values.
Identify the syntax of the RunPipe method for running an Order Processing pipeline.
Add a component to a Plan pipeline.
Identify steps to test components of a new Plan pipeline.
Identify the syntax to run a pipeline component by using the MicroPipe object.
Create a pipeline component log file.

Unit 2: Creating Pipeline Components 2 - 3 hours

Configure a Scriptor component property.
Add script to a Scriptor component.
View the Scriptor component code.
Sequence the steps to customize a Scriptor pipeline component.
Match Compiled Pipeline Component Wizards with their functions.
Identify the syntax to register the Visual Basic Pipeline Component Wizard.
Run the Visual Basic Pipeline Component Wizard.
Match Pipeline Component Type Library interfaces with their descriptions.
Identify syntax to implement the IPipelineComponent interface.
Identify syntax to implement the IPipelineComponentAdmin interface.
Identify the syntax for registering a pipeline component as a Component Object Model (COM) component.
Sequence the stages to register a pipeline component for stage affinity.

Unit 3: Implementing Advertising Campaigns 2 hours

Identify the stages of the Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
Create a new Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
Identify characteristics of the advertising selection process.
Identify the syntax to initialize the CacheManager for use with a Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
Identify the syntax to initialize an Expression Evaluator Engine (EEE) for a Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
Identify the syntax to create a Content Selection Pipeline (CSP) object.
Identify the syntax to run the Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
Sequence the steps in using the redirection page with a Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
Identify features of Commerce Server 2000 advertising infrastructure.
Identify syntax for applying discounts by using discount pipeline components.
Match discount pipeline component fields with their output descriptions.
Identify syntax to display a discount to users.
Identify steps to apply a discount to an item in a shopping basket.