Microsoft 98-361

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Understanding core programming (15-20%)

• Understand computer storage and data types
  How a computer stores programs and the instructions in computer memory, memory stacks and heaps, memory size requirements for the various data storage types, numeric data and textual data
  
• Understand computer decision structures
  Various decision structures used in all computer programming languages; If decision structures; multiple decision structures, such as If…Else and switch/Select Case; reading flowcharts; decision tables; evaluating expressions
  
• Identify the appropriate method for handling repetition
  For loops, While loops, Do...While loops, and recursion
  
• Understand error handling
  Structured exception handling
  

Understanding object-oriented programming (20-25%)

• Understand the fundamentals of classes
  Properties, methods, events, and constructors; how to create a class; how to use classes in code
  
• Understand inheritance
  Inheriting the functionality of a base class into a derived class
  
• Understand polymorphism
  Extending the functionality in a class after inheriting from a base class, overriding methods in the derived class
  
• Understand encapsulation
  Creating classes that hide their implementation details while still allowing access to the required functionality through the interface, access modifiers
  

Understanding general software development (15-20%)

• Understand application life cycle management
  Phases of application life cycle management, software testing
  
• Interpret application specifications
  Reading application specifications and translating them into prototypes, code, select appropriate application type, and components
  
• Understand algorithms and data structures
  Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, and sorting algorithms; performance implications of various data structures; choosing the right data structure
  

Understanding web applications (15-20%)

• Understand web page development
  HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript
  
• Understand Microsoft ASP.NET web application development
  Page life cycle, event model, state management, client-side versus server-side programming
  
• Understand web hosting
  Creating virtual directories and websites, deploying web applications, understanding the role of Internet Information Services
  
• Understand web services
  Web services that will be consumed by client applications, accessing web services from a client application, SOAP and Web Service Definition Language (WSDL)
  

Understanding desktop applications (15-20%)

• Understand Windows Store apps
  UI design guideline categories, characteristics and capabilities of Store Apps, identify gestures
  
• Understand console-based applications
  Characteristics and capabilities of console-based applications
  
• Understand Windows Services
  Characteristics and capabilities of Windows Services
  

Understanding databases (15-20%)

• Understand relational database management systems
  Characteristics and capabilities of database products, database design, Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), normalization concepts
  
• Understand database query methods
  Structured query language (SQL), creating and accessing stored procedures, updating data and selecting data
  
• Understand database connection methods
  Connecting to various types of data stores, such as flat file; XML file; in-memory object; resource optimization