Exam Code: 70-564

Course Name: Pro: Designing and Developing ASP.NET Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Vendor: Microsoft

Passing Score: 700

Course Outline: Pro: Designing and Developing ASP.NET Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 For 70-564 Exam

Designing and Implementing Controls For 70-564 Exam (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 For 70-564 Test (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 For 70-564 Test (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 For 70-564 Test (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 For 70-564 Exam (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 For 70-564 Exam (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