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Audience Profile
Questions that contain code will be presented in either VB or
C#. Candidates can select one of these languages when they start
the exam.
Candidates for this exam work on a team in a development
environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2008 and the
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 to build ASP.NET applications.
Candidates should have a minimum of three years of experience
developing Web-based applications including one to two years of
experience developing ASP.NET-based applications and a thorough
understanding of the ASP.NET technologies in the .NET Framework
3.5.
Additionally, candidates should be able to demonstrate the
following by using the .NET Framework 3.5:
•
A solid understanding of the ASP.NET applications
event model
•
Experience creating ASP.NET applications that access
data
•
Experience planning and designing user interaction
solutions
•
Experience in the full cycle of software
applications
Credit Toward CertificationExam
70-564: Pro: Designing and Developing ASP.NET Applications Using the
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5: counts as credit toward the following
certification(s):
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD): ASP.NET
Developer 3.5
Skills
Being MeasuredThis 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.
The information after “This
objective may include but is not limited to” is intended to further
define or scope the objective by describing the types of skills and
topics that may be tested for the objective. However, it is not an
exhaustive list of skills and topics that could be included on the exam
for a given skill area. You may be tested on other skills and topics
related to the objective that are not explicitly listed here.
Designing and Implementing
Controls (13 percent)
Choose appropriate controls based on business requirements.
May include but is not limited to: user controls, server
controls, built-in controls, custom controls, third-party
controls, Web parts
Design controls for reusability.
May include but is
not limited to: user controls, server controls, inheritance
for changing behavior
Manage states for controls.
May include but is not
limited to: control state, view state, accessing form
elements
Leverage data-bound controls.
May include but is not
limited to: use gridviews, use sorting and paging callbacks
when available, when to use custom sorting and paging,
server-side pagination
Choose appropriate validation controls based on business
requirements.
May include but is not limited to:
server-side page validation (Page.IsValid), custom
validator, validation groups, validation summary
Identify the appropriate usage of ASP.NET AJAX.
May
include but is not limited to: implementing partial page
updates with update panel, using ASP.NET AJAX controls,
script services
Manage JavaScript dependencies with server controls.
Designing the Presentation
and Layout of an Application (16 percent)
Design complex layout with Master Pages.
May include
but is not limited to: strongly typed master pages, nested
master pages
Plan for various user agents.
May include but is not
limited to: markups for different browsers for mobile
devices, screen readers, accessibility
Design a brandable user interface by using themes.
May include but is not limited to: shared themes across
multiple applications, run time master page selection
Design site navigation.
May include but is not
limited to: when to extend site map provider, treeview menu
vs. site map path, programmatically manipulating site map
nodes, overriding menu rendering by using control adapters,
filtering site map nodes based on user roles
Plan Web sites to support globalization.
May include
but is not limited to: custom resource provider vs. resource
files, localize applications
Accessing Data and Services
(18 percent)
Plan vendor-independent database interactions.
May
include but is not limited to: IDBconnection, IDBcommand,
IDBadapter, IdataReader, Datareader vs. dataset
Identify the appropriate usage of data source controls.
May include but is not limited to: SQLDataSource,
ObjectDataSource, XMLDataSource
Leverage LINQ in data access design.
May include but
is not limited to: LINQtoSQL, lambda expressions,
LINQtoObjects, LINQtoXML
Identify opportunities to access and expose Web services.
May include but is not limited to: WCF, ASMX, REST
Establishing ASP.NET
Solution Structure (13 percent)
Determine when to use the Web Site model vs. a Web
Application Project.
May include but is not limited
to: project file, references, namespace, user profile
object, precompilation
Establish an error-handling strategy.
May include but
is not limited to: Global.asax events, Web.config elements,
TRY/CATCH blocks, error logging
Manipulate configuration files to change ASP.NET behavior.
May include but is not limited to: machine key, tracing,
encrypting Web configuration data, custom configuration
sections
Identify a deployment strategy.
May include but is
not limited to: mangement application pools, Web deployment
projects, pre-compilation, custom action classes
Leveraging and Extending
ASP.NET Architecture (17 percent)
Design a state management strategy.
May include but
is not limited to: Cache, ViewState, Application object,
Session object, cookies, cookieless session
Identify the events of the page life cycle.
May
include but is not limited to: appending controls, PostBack
model, accessing state, data binding
Write HttpModules and HttpHandlers.
May include but
is not limited to: URL rewriting, SSO application,
dynamically retrieve data
Debug ASP.NET Web applications.
May include but is
not limited to: debug JavaScript, tracing, debug tools in
IDE, examining HTTP headers
Plan for long-running processes by using asynchronous pages.
May include but is not limited to:
AddonPreRenderCompleteAsync, RegisterAsyncTask
Applying security
principles (23 percent)
Identify appropriate security providers.
May include
but is not limited to: membership, role, profile, extending
custom providers
Decide which user-related information to store in a profile.
May include but is not limited to: create user profile
properties, extend membership objects, custom types
Establish security settings in Web.config.
May
include but is not limited to: identity/impersonation,
authentication, authorization (location nodes in Web.config)
Identify vulnerable elements in applications.
May
include but is not limited to: SQL injection, cross-site
scripting, protecting against bots
Ensure that sensitive information in applications is
protected.
May include but is not limited to: hash
and salt passwords, encrypting information
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