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Module 1: Course Overview
- Business Solutions Design Curriculum
- Overview of this course
- Project Life Cycle
- Looking Forward
Skills
- Describe how the course fits into the entire Business Solutions Design Curriculum.
- Describe where designing solutions fits into the MSF Process Model for Application Development.
- Describe how they will use the case study to apply the principles they will learn in the course.
- Describe the benefits they will gain by completing the course.
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Module 2: Solution Design Using the MSF
- Design Overview
- MSF Design Process
- Benefits of the MSF Design Process
- Review
Skills
- Describe the role of design in developing effective solutions to business challenges.
- Describe the MSF Process Model for Application Development.
- Explain the roles of the conceptual, logical, and physical design phases in the design process.
- Explain the benefits of using the MSF Process Model for Application Development.
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Module 3: A Services-based Approach to Solution Design
- Services-based Approach
- Value of a Services-based Approach
- Review
Skills
- Describe the principles of the MSF Application Model.
- Identify the service layers of the MSF Application Model.
- Explain the value of the MSF Application Model in designing solutions.
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Module 4: Business Solution Conceptual Design
- Conceptual Design Basics
- Conceptual Design Process
- Conceptual Design Research
- Conceptual Design Analysis
- Conceptual Design Optimisation
- Review
Skills
- Explain the need for conceptual design in the process of designing a business solution.
- Describe the role of conceptual design in the MSF Design Process Model.
- Describe the steps of conceptual design.
- Develop a future-state description of a business solution created through the conceptual design process.
- Develop a conceptual design for a business solution from the gathered and analysed information.
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Module 5: Business Solution Logical Design
- Logical Design Basics
- Logical Design Process
- Logical Design Analysis: Business Objects and Services
- Logical Design Analysis: Attributes and Relationships
- Logical Design Analysis: Rationalization
- Review
Skills
- Explain the need for a logical design in the process of designing a business solution.
- Describe the role of logical design in the MSF Design Process.
- Describe the steps of logical design.
- Identify the principles of modular design.
- Assess the impact of implementation consideration on the logical design.
- Design the objects and services of a business solution.
- Derive a logical design for a business solution from a conceptual design.
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Module 6: Beginning Physical Design
- Physical Design Basics
- Physical Design Process
- Physical Design Research
- Physical Design Analysis
- Review
Skills
- Explain the need for physical design in the process of designing a business solution.
- Describe the role of physical design in the MSF Design Process.
- Describe the steps of physical design.
- Create a preliminary services topology.
- Identify the risks in conflicts between solution requirements and physical constraints.
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Module 7: Selecting Solution Technologies
- Overview
- Distributed Applications Using Microsoft Windows Distributed interNet Applications Architecture (Windows DNA)
- Technology Selection Process
- Considerations by Type of Technology
- Review
Skills
- Describe Windows DNA and how it applies to an application's development.
- Describe a process for selecting solution technologies for implementing the designed solution.
- Evaluate implementation technologies from the perspective of the solution requirements, business considerations, enterprise architecture considerations, and whether the technology should be reused, purchased, or built.
- Evaluate the technology implications of solution requirements.
- Identify technology types and their evaluation criteria.
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Module 8: Solution Design and the Component Object Model
- Component Object Model (COM) Basics
- Application Development and COM
- Distributed COM Basics
- COM-Based Design
- Review
Skills
- Describe the Microsoft COM standard.
- Describe COM classes, components, objects, and interfaces.
- Explain the relationship between COM and application development.
- Describe DCOM and its relationship to COM.
- List the benefits of using COM in a solution design
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Module 9: Designing Solutions with Microsoft Technologies
- Operating Systems
- System Services
- Development Tools
- Data Access
- Data Storage
- Security
- Review
Skills
- Assess the feasibility of a proposed technical architecture based on the selected technologies, business requirements, and physical design.
- Assess the operating system support for a proposed candidate technology.
- Determine system service features for a proposed candidate technology.
- Determine the appropriate development tools for implementing the solution.
- Identify useful data access techniques.
- Assess data storage options.
- Identify different application security methods.
- Identify the characteristics of development platforms, languages, and tools for a proposed business solution.
- Evaluate technologies to be used in developing a business solution.
- Identify the technology options for connecting solutions to existing (legacy) data and systems.
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Module 10: Completing Physical Design
- Physical Design Rationalization Basics
- Rationalization: Distribution and Packaging
- Physical Design Specification
- Review
Skills
- Complete the rationalization step of physical design.
- Derive a physical design from a logical design.
- Describe the deliverables of a physical design specification.
- Describe a component specification.
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Module 11: Designing the Presentation Layer
- Application Presentation Layer
- User Interface Design Basics
- User Interface Design Process
- Selecting the Client Environment
- User Services Design Basics
- Review
Skills
- Determine the appropriate user interface metaphors for the business solution.
- Design a user interface that accommodates user needs and business requirements.
- Create an initial design of a user interface.
- Identify the methods of providing feedback to users.
- Identify the methods of providing user assistance.
- Identify the technology options and considerations for the client environment.
- Determine the user services—validation, navigation, and error processing—that are required for a user interface of a business system.
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Module 12: Introduction to Functional Specifications
- Functional Specification Basics
- Functional Specification Creation
- Functional Specification Validation
- Review
Skills
- Describe the purpose and benefits of functional specifications.
- Describe the contents of a functional specification.
- Describe the purpose and methods of validating a functional specification.
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Exams:
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There are no exams directly associated with this course
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Price Options ex VAT:
Classroom Training
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Distance Learning
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eLearning Options
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Book Learning
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£
1750
(€2486)
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£
995.00
(€1413)
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No Books Supported for Course at present
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Last Modified 01 May 2008
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