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Follow my SOA certification studies on Twitter

To compensate for my lack of time to write some decent blog posts I’ll twitter about my study activities. So follow me on @explorenet.

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Passed Exam S90.03: SOA Design & Architecture

Finally I had the time to take the S90.03 exam (SOA Design & Architecture ), I know you’ve all been waiting for some info on this. For the moment I don’t have the time to go into detail about it … Continue reading

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Silverlight 4 Relative Service Paths

Silverlight 4 supports relative paths for your service references, no more silly workarounds to deploy to different environments. The relative path is based on the location of the xap file, so if you xap is located on http://www.mysite.com/ClientBin/MyApp.xap and your … Continue reading

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Certified SOA Professional

It’s official now…

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Passed Exam S90.02: SOA Technology Concepts

Today I successfully passed exam S90.02 and with that I earned my Certified SOA Professional rank The exam format is the same as S90.01, 50 questions (true/false, single choice or multiple choice questions), 1 hour to finish and the pass … Continue reading

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Scheduled exam S90.02

I’ve scheduled the second exam, SOA Technology Concepts, in my pursuit of becoming a Certified SOA Consultant for March 29. This exams covers the basic technologies to implement a SOA solutions, specially through the use of web services. To prepare … Continue reading

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Understanding SOA – A Word On Services

Introduction A service is the essential artifact in SOA, everything revolves around it, you’ll be analyzing, modeling, designing, implementing, governing and versioning services. A service is a specialized piece of business logic, a piece of software that is designed by … Continue reading

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Passed Exam S90.01: Fundamental SOA & Service-Oriented Computing

This morning I went to take the exam S90.01 and passed without too much difficulties, 96/100 isn’t that bad I guess This exam is to test your basic understanding of Service-Orientation, here is a list of the things you have … Continue reading

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Understanding SOA – Principles – Service Loose Coupling

Introduction Service Loose Coupling means that each service is an isolated entity with limited dependencies on other (shared) resources. These resources could be technologies, (legacy) applications, databases, components, API’s, infrastructure… The more a service is isolated from external resources the … Continue reading

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Understanding SOA – Principles – Service Contract

IntroductionThe service contract is probably the most important thing/document/artifact that you’ll be creating or using concerning a SOA implementation. This is what technically defines a service, what it will look like, what it is capable of doing and how it’s … Continue reading

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