Microsoft 70-498

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This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.

Define an effective end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (15‒20%)

• Understand the value of an end-to-end view of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools and practices
  Understand that an observable problem may be indicative of a more general process issue; explain the difference between optimizing a piece of the ALM process, such as manual testing, and optimizing the entire ALM process
  
• Explain the benefits of fast feedback
  Explain the importance of fast feedback related to communicating requirements, explain the benefits of end customer feedback to early software iterations
  
• Implement strategies to reduce end-to-end cycle time
  Identify bottlenecks in the delivery process, identify metrics that highlight bottlenecks, create potential solutions whose effectiveness can be validated, understand the relationship between work in process (WIP) and cycle time
  
• Implement strategies to improve software quality
  Identify process steps that introduce defects, understand the end-to-end quality process, bring quality efforts early in the development cycle
  
• Implement strategies to reduce waste
  Identify wasteful activities, create strategies to eliminate waste, measure the effectiveness of waste removal activities
  
• Create a process improvement plan
  Create strategies for implementing organizational change, identify key metrics to be tracked during the improvement effort, create consensus for the change
  

Define the ALM process (15‒20%)

• Role of different ALM processes
  Understand the cost and benefits of the key ALM processes, including agile, scrum, waterfall, and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
  
• Implement a scrum/agile process
  Establish self-organizing teams; holding a scrum/agile planning meeting, hold daily scrums/stand-up meetings, hold retrospective meetings, hold scrum review meetings
  
• Define a scrum/agile process for a team
  Establish criteria on when to cancel a sprint/iteration, establish tooling and process for scrum/agile artifacts, establish the scrum definition of "done," determine sprint/iteration length, determine how to handle backlog items/user stories not completed in a sprint/iteration, determine how to monitor sprint/iteration progress, use collaborative tools
  
• Implement Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) for CMMI process improvement
  Establish project drivers (scope-driven, date-driven), assign product requirements to iterations, manage changes, manage issues
  

Define a software iteration (15‒20%)

• Plan a release
  Identify a flexibility matrix, identify releases based on priority items in flexibility matrix and release criteria, resource planning (scrum team is responsible for allocating team members), identify techniques to optimize a team that is geographically distributed, select a project methodology, risk management
  
• Define a project-tracking process
  Plan and manage a portfolio of multiple projects, identify a project tracking tool and an associated process (triage process, bug management), define how to manage effort, determine team forecast management, define a prioritization scheme, determine how to validate project health
  
• Scope a project
  Scope the effort for a release, define an architecture design process, define scope boundaries (is/is not list), determine the definition of “done,” define a process when effort estimates are significantly inaccurate
  

Define end value for the software iteration (15‒20%)

• Elicit requirements
  Define project requirements, review and clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, define UI platform requirements (web, mobile), assign a business value
  
• Estimate requirements
  Manage and assign effort estimates (assign story points); resize user requirements into smaller, manageable pieces; execute task breakdown; estimate the requirements baseline
  
• Document requirements
  Define acceptance criteria, list requirements, add requirement details, design UI storyboards
  
• Prioritize requirements
  Identify requirements that are critical path, identify must-have requirements, enable the entire team (including customers) to participate in requirements prioritization, identify dependencies
  

Develop customer value with high quality (15‒20%)

• Define code quality indicators
  Perform code review, including security and performance analysis; analyze code for common defects; calculate code coverage; perform architecture validation
  
• Incorporate unit testing
  Establish unit test standards, develop a strategy for adding unit tests to existing applications, select the unit test type, establish the code coverage target
  
• Develop code
  Develop maintainable code; define coding standards; define application architecture; define configuration management process and tooling, including source control tree, branching strategy, solution structure, source control/check-in policy; manage multiple repositories using Git; use architecture, model, and design tools; use quality and diagnostic tools
  
• Validate quality
  Organize test artifacts, such as test cases, suites, plans, and requirements; define test strategy; manage test execution; perform cloud-based load testing; identify test types and associated tools; identify and configure environments; analyze test runs
  
• Customize a team project
  Customize a work item, customize work item queries, customize Team Portal, identify areas and iterations, manage roles and associated permissions
  

Integrate development and operations (15‒20%)

• Implement an automated deployment process
  Architect an automated build and deploy workflow, integrate automated tests, automate deployment into both test and production environments, review diagnostic logs for builds, manage releases
  
• Implement pre-production environments
  Automate the creation of virtual test lab environments, automate deployment into virtual test environments
  
• Manage feedback between development and operations
  Implement tools to simplify communication; identify, measure, and report key analytics and performance indicators, such as cycle time and mean time to repair (MTTR); create appropriate shared artifacts and process to facilitate communication; standardize required artifacts for defect reports; create strategies for test case reuse (both automated and manual) in production; monitor an application in production to optimize usage and performance
  
• Troubleshoot production issues
  Gather defect data from bugs in a production setting, provide actionable data to the development team, monitor applications running in production for potential issues, manage incident response times collaboratively between development and operations
  

This exam is designed to provide candidates with an assessment of their knowledge of fundamental server administration concepts. It can also serve as a stepping stone to the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist exams. It is recommended that candidates become familiar with the concepts and the technologies described here by taking relevant training courses. Candidates are expected to have some hands-on experience with Windows Server, Windows-based networking, Active Directory, account management, and system recovery tools and concepts.