Recommended Cisco offerings that may help you meet these prerequisites:

CVPD Scripting Part 1 or Call Studio experience.

TOPICS:  Begin with a Call Studio Review that includes tips and tricks not covered in Part 1.

JavaScript:  Add a large amount of functionality that was not formerly available:

• String functions: substring, string length, string replace, toUpper, toLower, charAt, etc.
• Math functions: round, floor, ceiling, truncate, random numbers, etc.
• Date functions: date or time arithmetic, validate dates, create formatted date/time variables
• Customize alphanumeric strings for playback using Say It Smart
• Remove invalid characters from data that would otherwise cause errors upon returning it to ICM

REST Web Service calls and XML: Learn to work with RESTful web services

• Use Post Man to test RESTful web service interface
• Learn XPath syntax to parse XML response and test using Notepad++ and free online tools
• Learn XPath expressions that select specific data from XML arrays
• How to use the Studio REST Client Element  and to parse XML responses in Studio           
• Set fetching properties for the voice browser      

REST Web Service calls and JSON: JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) reponses from web services

• Learn JSON syntax, how to parse JSON responses, and test using JSONPath.com free online tools
• Learn JSON path expressions to select specific data from JSON arrays
• Use the Studio Rest Client element and  JavaScript in Studio to parse JSON results           

SOAP Web Services: Understand how to invoke a SOAP and WSDL based web services

• SOAPUI to test web service connection outside of Studio 
• Using the Studio Web Services Element
• Learn to parse SOAP responses manually using XPath expressions

Database: Use the SQL Database element in Studio

• Select data and execute stored procedures on a SQL-based database
• Select multiple rows from SQL DB and parse the result using XPath expressions
• Event Handling to catch exceptions and switch to backup database

Modularization  and Multiple applications

• SubFlows – Subroutines (or ‘functions) for reusability and readability       
• Subdialogs – Calling another Studio application as a subroutine
• Application Transfers – Go to another Studio application without returning

Event Handling: Review of adding event handling globally, in subflows, or element-level

• LastException variable 
• Adding Your Own Event Handling for Java Exceptions, VoiceXML Events, Custom Exceptions
• Creating an Error Element to catch any unhandled exceptions    

Speech Recognition: Working with Nuance Speech Recognition

• Understanding grammars: builtin, inline, external
• Using Studio Digits, Number, Currency, YesNoMenu elements, Confirm if necessary
• Studio Form Element to build a menu, invoke builtin grammars, point to URI-based grammars
• Work with multiple results (N-Best list) Global Commands (HotLinks)
   

Record with Confirm

• Learn to write a prompt recorder application to take a recording and allow re-recording
• FTP the recording to one or more media servers
• Understand voice browser cache algorithm
• Understand how to configure cache expiration times on IIS media server

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