Exam MB2-876 - Extending Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.
Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.
Plan to deploy Microsoft Dynamics CRM (11%)
- Identify the layers in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 architecture
- Application layer; Platform layer; Database layer
- Identify the deployment considerations
- Describe the deployment model, identify support for Microsoft Outlook clients, identify the extensibility points, identify types of reporting, identify the web resources
Perform common platform operations (12%)
- Describe how to use IDiscoveryService
- What is the IDiscoveryService used for?
- Describe how to use IOrganizationService
- What is the IOrganizationService used for?
- Describe how to use early-bound entry classes
- What is an early-bound entry class used for?
- Describe how to use late-bound entry classes
- What is a late-bound entry class used for?
- Describe data types
- Describe how to use methods
- Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete, RetrieveMultiple
- Describe how to handle SOAP exception
Perform advanced platform operations (12%)
- Identify different ways to query data
- QueryExpression, QueryByAttribute, LINQ queries, FetchXML, filtered views
- Save queries
- Identify how to use the Execute() method
- Identify how to use requests and responses
- Identify how to use late-bound versus early-bound
- Identify how to use the Entity class
- Identify how to use the IOrganizationService web service
Create custom workflow activities and utilize Windows Workflow Foundation (10%)
- Describe process architecture
- Describe workflow
- Actions and conditions, input arguments, variables
- Describe dialog
- Rules, events, pages, prompts and responses, actions and conditions
- Set up custom workflow activity assemblies
- Create custom workflow activities
- Debug custom workflow activities
- Create and modify workflows in Windows Workflow Foundation
Create plug-ins (11%)
- Describe plug-ins
- What is a plug-in, when to use a plug-in, cascading events, information available in plug-ins, plug-ins and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 for Microsoft Office Outlook
- Describe event framework
- Key features, event execution pipeline
- Describe plug-in isolation, trusts, and statistics
- Sandbox
- Develop plug-ins
- Data context, exception handling, impersonation, registration and deployment
- Describe the Entity class and its uses
- Describe the integration of Microsoft Azure with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
- Overview of the Azure platform, integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, creation of a Listener for an Azure solution, send data over the AppFabric Service Bus, create an Azure–aware plug-in
Implement application events (11%)
- Describe the use of JScript web resources and how they are used for client-side events
- Overview of web resources, reference web resources, use the Jscript web resource
- Describe form and field events
- OnChange, OnLoad, OnSave, TabStateChange, OnReadyStateComplete
- Describe form event handler execution context
- Set event dependencies
- Identify best practices in writing client-side code
- Debug client-side code
- Request external data
- Pass parameters
- Access Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 web services
Program application events (11%)
- Describe form types
- Describe global variables and functions
- Implement XrmPagecontext
- Implement XrmPagedataentity
- Implement XrmPageui
- Implement GetGlobalContext
Customize application integration (11%)
- Describe ways to customize the user interface
- Customize the site map XML
- Customize the ribbon XML
- Customize the form XML
- Describe how customizations impact Microsoft Outlook
- Implement IFrames in entity forms
- Describe IFrame considerations, retrieve data by using parameters, dynamic IFrame
- Describe URL-addressable forms and views
- Describe application integration with Microsoft SharePoint Server
Implement web resources (11%)
- Implement webpage (HTML) web resources
- Creation, limitations, passing parameters
- Implement data (XML) web resources
- Creation, limitations, referencing
- Implement style sheet (CSS) web resources
- Creation, limitations, referencing
- Implement style sheet (XSL) web resources
- Creation, limitations, referencing
- Implement image (PNG, JPG, GIF, ICO) web resources
- Creation, limitations, referencing
- Implement Silverlight (XAP) web resources
- Create Silverlight web resources, access context data, pass data to a Silverlight web resource, use the REST endpoint, test and debug