Exam 70-489: Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Advanced Solutions

Design and implement search (15–20%)

• Query search
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: build search queries using FAST Query Language (FQL) and Keyword Query Language (KQL), execute search queries using client-side object model (CSOM), Web Services, and REST
• Customize search results
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: create custom result sources, create display templates, create result types, create custom refiner definitions, implement query rules
• Customize content processing
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: feed external content types, implement content processing extensions (entity extraction), configure out-of-the box content processing, create content mappings

Implement Business Connectivity Services (BCS) (10–15%)

• Create a model
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: optimize queries for performance and throttling, use naming conventions, use batching, create filters, implement methods, create associations
• Create external content types
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: use SQL data sources, use Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web Services, use OData, use .NET connector
• Implement authorization and authentication
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: use pass-through, use BCS Identity and User Identity, use a custom model
• Create custom connectors
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: implement methods (including Search), implement security trimming, implement configuration properties, implement caching, implement external event receiver
• Access BCS data
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: use BCS Web Parts, use BCS data in workflows, use BCS CSOM, use the server-side object model, use BCS REST
• Implement client-side BCS
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: use caching, use Microsoft Office apps, use Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office, use SQL replication, implement authorization and authentication

Implement user profiles and customize social workload (15–20%)

• Manage user profile properties
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: create and update user profile properties, update privacy filters, map properties to external data, use managed metadata term sets, update profile picture
• Manage feeds
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: use CSOM to follow documents, people, sites, get feeds, create posts, and manage like, reply, mention, tag, link, add pictures
• Access user profile data
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: use CSOM, use the object model, use REST, use Web Services

Implement Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Web Content Management (WCM) (15–20%)

• Implement a multilingual site
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: submit a page or batch of pages for translation, publish pages, create source and target labels, create channels, implement multi-language site navigation
• Implement e-discovery
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: create a new hold, integrate with Microsoft Exchange Web Services, specify content sources and Search criteria, export discovery sets, manage permissions for hold
• Implement Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: create a site map, customize a site map, maintain SEO configuration properties, maintain robots.txt file, maintain SEO properties on term
• Implement content management
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: create information management policies, create content organizer rules, create document sets, create document ID providers
• Implement a publishing page
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: add field controls to a page layout, add web parts to a page layout, create a publishing page layout, inherit content types

Design for performance and troubleshooting (15–20%) Implement Managed Metadata Service (MMS) (15–20%)

• Design solutions to handle a high-traffic site
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: combine images, implement caching, minimize number of queries, optimize JavaScript loading, use Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), create a scalable aggregator
• Design client applications for performance
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: leverage health score rules, optimize number of batch server requests, use client-side cache, minimize amount of data requested
• Monitor and mitigate performance and scalability issues
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: diagnose application stability issues, debug the server side and app code on the client side, create application diagnostics, measure and test application performance

Implement Managed Metadata Service (MMS) (15-20%)

• Manage term sets
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: import and export term sets, create multilingual labels, reuse terms, manage term properties, perform translation, create groups, and assign permissions
• Create solutions by using MMS
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: use Profile Pages, use the Product Catalog, use cross-site publishing, integrate with Search, implement metadata-driven navigation
• Use an MMS API
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: use CSOM in client applications, use REST in client applications, use managed fields, use server-side object model