This chapter maps to parts of the Developing BizTalk Artifacts section of the exam. It is not an introduction to developing BizTalk Artifacts, instead it will point out some of the most relevant areas where you should have a proven practice today in your BizTalk development; these in turn are areas that you need to know about when taking the exam.

This builds on and leverages the knowledge we acquired in the first chapter about how to compose messaging architectures by involving Schemas and Pipelines instead of just passing untyped messages. The objective of Developing BizTalk Artifacts is split into three logically coherent chapters of manageable size, so that you can focus your effort on the area where you most need to improve. This is the first, and it covers these main areas:

The section in the certification skills measured, called Construct Messages, does not...