Exam 98-363 - Web Development Fundamentals
Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam. View video tutorials about thevariety of question typeson Microsoft exams.
Prerequisties:
Microsoft Training40363 -Web Development Fundamentals
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Programming web applications (20-25%)
- Customize the layout and appearance of a web page
- CSS; tables; embedding images; page layout for navigation
- Understand ASP.NET intrinsic objects
- Request; Server; Application; Session; Response; HttpContext
- Understand state information in web applications
- Understand how state is stored based on application design and hardware; understand different types such as session state, view state, control state, and application state
- Understand events and control page flow
- Application and page life cycle events; page events; control events; application events; session events; cross-page posting; Response.Redirect; Server.Transfer; IsPostBack; setting AutoEventWireup
- Understand controls
- Understanding various types of controls, including user, server, web, and validation controls; know which is the appropriate type of control for a scenario
- Understand configuration files
- Understanding the usage of web.config and machine.config, and the settings that can be made
Preparation resources
- Introduction to ASP.NET web applications in Visual Studio
- ASP.NET intrinsic objects
- Configuration files
Working with data and services (20-25%)
- Read and write XML data
- Understanding XML, XML validation
- Does not include: Web services; XPath syntax; XmlDocument; XPathNavigator; XPathNodeIterator; XPathDocument; XmlReader; XmlWriter; XmlDataDocument; XmlNamespaceManager
- Distinguish between DataSet and DataReader objects
- The ability to choose the proper data object to use based on application requirements/design
- Call a service from a web page
- Creating a basic WCF service or web service so that it can be consumed; App_WebReferences; configuration
- Understand DataSource controls
- LinqDataSource: ObjectDataSource; XmlDataSource; SqlDataSource
- Bind controls to data by using data binding syntax
- Ensure that data is updated and displayed in data-aware controls
- Manage data connections and databases
- Database connections; connection objects; connection pools; transaction objects
Preparation resources
- Contrasting the ADO.NET DataReader and DataSet
- Data source controls overview
- Data-binding expression syntax
Troubleshooting and debugging web applications (20-25%)
- Debug a web application
- Use in conjunction with custom error pages to display appropriate error information to the appropriate user; implement tracing of a web application, Trace.axd, Trace=True on @Page directive
- Handle web application errors
- HTTP error codes
Preparation resources
- ASP.NET Troubleshooting and debugging
- How to: Debug web applications
- How to: Handle application-level errors
Working with client-side scripting (15-20%)
- Understand client-side scripting
- Purpose of client-side scripting; various client-side scripting languages
- Understand AJAX concepts
- ASP.NET AJAX implementation; working with client-side libraries, EnablePartialRendering, Triggers, ChildrenAsTriggers, Scripts, Services, UpdateProgress, Timer, ScriptManagerProxy, extender controls
Preparation resources
- Client script in ASP.NET web pages
- Microsoft Ajax overview
- AJAX application architecture, Part 1
Configuring and deploying web applications (15-20%)
- Configure authentication and authorization
- Forms authentication, Windows authentication; authorization; file authorization; impersonation
- Does not include: Windows Cardspace authentication, Passport (Windows Live ID) authentication, Custom authentication
- Configure projects, solutions, and reference assemblies
- Local assemblies; shared assemblies (GAC); web application projects; solutions; configuration files; AppSettings
- Publish web applications
- Choosing the appropriate method to deploy an application based on existing or intended environment; updatable vs. not updateable; MSI deployment; Internet Information Server (IIS) installation and configuration
- Understand application pools
- Purpose of application pools; effect of application pools on web applications
- Does not include: Configuring or assigning application pools
Preparation resources
- ASP.NET web application security
- Working with Assemblies and the Global Assembly Cache
- How to: Publish web application projects