Developing and Implementing Web Applications - Exam Overview
Current Status:
Beta, July 5th - July 19th
Exam Number:
71-315 (Release version will be 70-315)
Exam Name:
Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Number of Questions:
~90
Time Limit:
180 mins
Topics Covered
Creating User Services
Create ASP.NET Pages
Add and set directives on ASP.NET pages
Separate user interface resources from business logic
Add Web server controls, HTML server controls, user controls, and HTML code to ASP.NET pages.
Set properties on controls.
Load controls dynamically.
Apply templates.
Set styles on ASP.NET pages by using cascading style sheets.
Instantiate and invoke an ActiveX control.
Implement navigation for the user interface.
Manage the view state.
Manage data during postback events.
Use session state to manage data across pages.
Validate user input.
Validate non-Latin user input.
Implement error handling in the user interface.
Configure custom error pages.
Implement Global.asax, application, page-level, and page event error handling.
Implement online user assistance.
Incorporate existing code into ASP.NET pages.
Display and update data.
Transform and filter data.
Bind data to the user interface.
Use controls to display data.
Instantiate and invoke Web services or components.
Instantiate and invoke a Web service.
Instantiate and invoke a COM or COM+ component.
Instantiate and invoke a .NET component.
Call native functions by using platform invoke.
Implement globalization.
Implement localizability for the user interface.
Convert existing encodings.
Implement right-to-left and left-to-right mirroring.
Prepare culture-specific formatting.
Handle events.
Create event handlers.
Raise events.
Implement accessibility features.
Use and edit intrinsic objects. Intrinsic objects include response, request, session, server, and application.
Retrieve values from the properties of intrinsic objects.
Set values on the properties of intrinsic objects.
Use intrinsic objects to perform operations.
Creating and Managing Components and .NET Assemblies
Create and modify a .NET assembly.
Create and implement satellite assemblies.
Create resource-only assemblies.
Create Web custom controls and Web user controls.
Consuming and Manipulating Data
Access and manipulate data from a Microsoft SQL Server database by creating and using ad hoc queries and stored procedures.
Access and manipulate data from a data store. Data stores include relational databases, XML documents, and flat files. Methods include XML techniques and ADO.NET.
Handle data errors.
Testing and Debugging
Create a unit test plan.
Implement tracing.
Add trace listeners and trace switches to an application.
Display trace output.
Debug, rework, and resolve defects in code.
Configure the debugging environment.
Create and apply debugging code to components, pages, and applications.
Provide multicultural test data to components, pages, and applications.
Execute tests.
Resolve errors and rework code.
Deploying a Web Application
Plan the deployment of a Web application.
Plan a deployment that uses removable media.
Plan a Web-based deployment.
Plan the deployment of an application to a Web garden, a Web farm, or a cluster.
Create a setup program that installs a Web application and allows for the application to be uninstalled.
Deploy a Web application.
Add assemblies to the global assembly cache.
Maintaining and Supporting a Web Application
Optimize the performance of a Web application.
Diagnose and resolve errors and issues.
Configuring and Securing a Web Application
Configure a Web application.
Modify the Web.config file.
Modify the Machine.config file.
Add and modify application settings.
Configure security for a Web application.
Select and configure authentication type. Authentication types include Windows Authentication, None, forms-based, Microsoft Passport, Internet Information Services (IIS) authentication, and custom authentication.
Configure authorization. Authorization methods include file-based methods and URL-based methods.
Configure role-based authorization.
Implement impersonation.
Configure and implement caching. Caching types include output, fragment, and data.
Use a cache object.
Use cache directives.
Configure and implement session state in various topologies such as a Web garden and a Web farm.
Use session state within a process.
Use session state with session state service.
Use session state with Microsoft SQL Server.
Install and configure server services.
Install and configure a Web server.
Install and configure Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions.
