Asp.Net Certification Syllabus

Developing web forms pages (19%)

• Configure web forms pages
  • Page directives such as ViewState, request validation, event validation, MasterPageFile; ClientIDMode; using web.config; setting the html doctype
  • This objective does not include: referencing a master page; adding a title to a web form
• Implement master pages and themes
  • Creating and applying themes; adding multiple content placeholders; nested master pages; control skins; passing messages between master pages; switching between themes at runtime; loading themes at run time; applying a validation schema
  • This objective does not include: creating a master page; basic content pages
• Implement globalization
  • Resource files, browser files, CurrentCulture, currentUICulture, ASP:Localize
• Handle page life cycle events
  • IsPostback, IsValid, dynamically creating controls, control availability within the page life cycle, accessing control values on postback, overriding page events
• Implement caching
  • Data caching; page output caching; control output caching; cache dependencies; setting cache lifetimes; substitution control
  • This objective does not include: distributed caching (Velocity)
• Manage state
  • Server-side technologies, for example, session and application; client-side technologies, for example, cookies and ViewState; configuring session state (in proc, state server, Microsoft SQL Server; cookieless); session state compression; persisting data by using ViewState; compressing ViewState; moving ViewState

Preparation resources

• ASP.NET web pages
• ASP.NET page lifecycle overview
• Caching in .NET Framework applications

Developing and using web forms controls (18%)

• Validate user input
  • Client side, server side, and via AJAX; custom validation controls; regex validation; validation groups; datatype check; jQuery validation
  • This objective does not include: RangeValidator and RequiredValidator
• Create page layout
  • AssociatedControlID; Web parts; navigation controls; FileUpload controls
  • This objective does not include: label; placeholder, panel controls; CSS, HTML, referencing CSS files, inlining
• Implement user controls
  • Registering a control; adding a user control; referencing a user control; dynamically loading a user control; custom event; custom properties; setting toolbox visibility
• Implement server controls
  • Composite controls, INamingContainer, adding a server control to the toolbox, global assembly cache, creating a custom control event, globally registering from web.config; TypeConverters
  • This objective does not include: postback data handler, custom databound controls, templated control
• Manipulate user interface controls from code-behind
  • HTML encoding to avoid cross-site scripting, navigating through and manipulating the control hierarchy; FindControl; controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion; URL encoding; RenderOuterTable
  • This objective does not include: visibility, text, enabled properties

Preparation resources

• Walkthrough: Validating user input in a web forms page
• ASP.NET user controls
• ASP.NET web server controls overview

Implementing client-side scripting and AJAX (16%)

• Add dynamic features to a page by using JavaScript
  • o Referencing client ID; script manager; script combining; Page.clientscript.registerclientscriptblock; Page.clientscript.registerclientscriptinclude; sys.require (scriptloader)
  • This objective does not include: interacting with the server; referencing JavaScript files; inlining JavaScript
• Alter a page dynamically by manipulating the DOM
  • Using jQuery, adding, modifying, or removing page elements, adding effects, jQuery selectors
  • This objective does not include: AJAX
• Handle JavaScript events
  • DOM events, custom events, handling events by using jQuery
• Implement ASP.NET AJAX
  • Client-side templating, creating a script service, extenders (ASP.NET AJAX control toolkit), interacting with the server, Microsoft AJAX client library, custom extenders; multiple update panels; triggers; UpdatePanel.UpdateMode; timer
  • This objective does not include: basic update panel and progress
• Implement AJAX by using jQuery
  • $.get, $.post, $.getJSON, $.ajax, xml, html, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), handling return types
  • This objective does not include: creating a service

Preparation resources

• Client script in ASP.NET web pages
• Walkthrough: Creating an Ajax-enabled web site
• Creating custom client events

Configuring and extending a web application (15%)

• Configure authentication and authorization
  • Using membership, using login controls, roles, location element, protecting an area of a site or a page
  • This objective does not include: Windows Live; Microsoft Passport; Windows and forms authentication
• Configure providers
  • Role, membership, personalization, aspnet_regsql.exe
  • This objective does not include: creating custom providers
• Create and configure HttpHandlers and HttpModules
  • Generic handlers, asynchronous handlers, setting MIME types and other content headers, wiring modules to application events
• Configure initialization and error handling
  • Handling Application_Start, Session_Start, and Application_BeginRequest in global.asax, capturing unhandled exceptions, custom error section of web.config, redirecting to an error page; try and catch; creating custom exceptions
• Reference and configure ASMX and WCF services
  • Adding service reference, adding web reference, changing endpoints, wsdl.exe, svcutil.exe; updating service URL; shared WCF contracts assembly
  • This objective does not include: creating WCF and ASMX services
• Configure projects and solutions, and reference assemblies
  • Local assemblies, shared assemblies (global assembly cache), web application projects, solutions, settings file, configuring a web application by using web.config or multiple .config files; assemblyinfo
• Debug a web application
  • Remote, local, JavaScript debugging, attaching to process, logging and tracing, using local IIS, aspnet_regiis.exe
• Deploy a web application
  • Pre-compilation, publishing methods (e.g., MSDeploy, xcopy, and FTP), deploying an MVC application
  • This objective does not include: application pools, IIS configuration

Preparation resources

• ASP.NET authentication
• HTTP handlers and HTTP modules overview
• ASP.NET debugging overview

Displaying and manipulating data (19%)

• Implement data-bound controls
  • Advanced customization of DataList, Repeater, ListView, FormsView, DetailsView, TreeView, DataPager, Chart, GridView
  • This objective does not include: working in design mode
• Implement DataSource controls
  • ObjectDataSource, LinqDataSource, XmlDataSource, SqlDataSource, QueryExtender, EntityDataSource
  • This objective does not include: AccessDataSource, SiteMapDataSource
• Query and manipulate data by using LINQ
  • Transforming data by using LINQ to create XML or JSON, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to entities, LINQ to objects, managing DataContext lifetime
  • This objective does not include: basic LINQ to SQL
• Create and consume a data service
  • WCF, web service; server to server calls; JSON serialization, XML serialization
  • This objective does not include: client side, ADO.NET data services
• Create and configure a dynamic data project
  • Dynamic data controls, custom field templates; connecting to DataContext and ObjectContext

Preparation resources

• ASP.NET data-bound web server controls overview
• Data source controls overview
• Walkthrough: Manipulating data (Visual Basic) (LINQ to SQL)

Developing a web application by using ASP.NET MVC 2 (13%)

• Create custom routes
  • Route constraints, route defaults, ignore routes, custom route parameters
• Create controllers and actions
  • Visual Studio support for right-click context menus; action filters (including Authorize, AcceptVerbs, and custom) and model binders; ActionResult sub-classes
• Structure an ASP.NET MVC application
  • Single project areas (for example, route registration, Visual Studio tooling, and inter-area links); organizing controllers into areas; shared views; content files and folders
• Create and customize views
  • Built-in and custom HTML helpers (for example, HTML.RenderAction and HTML.RenderPartial), strongly typed views, static page checking, templated input helpers, ViewMasterPage, ViewUserControl
  • This objective does not include: Microsoft.Web.Mvc futures assembly

Preparation resources

• ASP.NET MVC 2
• Controllers and action methods in ASP.NET MVC applications
• Developer Review – Four ASP.NET MVC view engines