Audience Profile
Candidates are typically Job Role Professionals who design and develop Web applications by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. These professional developers should have a minimum of three years of experience using Microsoft ASP.NET technologies to develop compelling user experiences. Candidates should be able to demonstrate the following by using .NET Framework:
- Experience designing and developing modern Web user experiences by using such technologies as AJAX and jQuery
- Experience consuming business and data services such as REST, WS-*, Windows Communications Foundation (WCF), and Microsoft ADO.NET Data Services
- Experience with the full software development life cycle
In addition, candidates should have a solid understanding of:
- Web application architectures such as ASP.NET MVC and Web Form
State management for Web applications by using ASP.NET
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| Credit Toward CertificationExam 70-519: Pro: Designing and Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):
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This exam is designed to test the candidate's knowledge and skills on making the appropriate job role decisions around Windows-based applications on the desktop using Windows Forms and WPF.
Questions that contain code will be presented in either VB or C#. Candidates can select one of these languages when they start the exam.
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Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam work on a team in a development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 to develop desktop applications. Candidates should have a minimum of three years of experience developing applications, including one to two years of experience developing Windows-based applications. Candidates should have a thorough understanding of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Forms technologies in the .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.
Additionally, candidates should be able to demonstrate the following by using the .NET Framework 4:
- Experience designing Windows client applications that access data and services
- Experience designing data access layers and service layers for a Windows client application
- Experience planning and designing user interaction solutions
- Experience with the full development life cycle of Windows client applications
Experience developing and deploying to multi-tier environments
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Credit Toward CertificationExam 70-518: Pro: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):
- MCPD: Windows Developer 4
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This exam is designed to test the candidate's knowledge and skills on accessing data sources using ADO.NET and the .NET Framework.
Questions that contain code will be presented in either VB or C#. Candidates can select one of these languages when they start the exam.
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Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and ADO.NET 4 to develop the data access layer of an application. Candidates should have a minimum of two to three years of experience developing application components that interact with a variety of data sources. In addition, candidates should have a thorough understanding of relational database concepts and should have a minimum of one to two years of experience using a relational database management system.
Candidates should also have a good grasp of the following:
- ADO.NET 4 coding techniques and framework components
- ADO.NET Data Services LINQ
- LINQ to SQL
- Entity Framework technologies
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
- stored procedures
- Database Structures/Schemas (Objects) XML
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Credit Toward CertificationWhen you pass Exam 70-516: TS: Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4, you complete the requirements for the following certification(s):
- MCTS: .NET Framework 4, Data Access
Exam 70-516: TS: Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):
- MCPD: Windows Developer 4
- MCPD: Web Developer 4
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Audience Profile
The candidate works on a team in a development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 to build distributed applications. This candidate should have at least one year of experience developing Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)–based applications, including at least six months of experience with .NET Framework 4. The candidate should also be able to demonstrate the following:
- A solid understanding of WCF in the context of the .NET Framework 4 solution stack
- Experience creating service model elements
- Experience using WCF to support open and .NET communication
- Experience configuring and deploying WCF applications
- Experience using Visual Studio tools, tracing tools, SvcUtil, WCF performance monitoring, and IIS/WAS for hosting services
- Experience securing WCF applications
- A solid understanding of concurrency
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Credit Toward CertificationWhen you pass Exam 70-513: TS: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4, you complete the requirements for the following certification(s):
- MCTS: .NET Framework 4, Service Communication Applications
Exam 70-513: TS: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):
- MCPD: Windows Developer 4
- MCPD: Web Developer 4
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| Exam Topics Covered
This exam is designed to test the candidate's knowledge and skills for developing applications using Windows Forms, WPF and the .NET Framework 4.
Questions that contain code will be presented in either VB or C#. Candidates can select one of these languages when they start the exam.
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Audience Profile
The candidate works in a development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create WinForms and WPF applications. The candidate should have at least one year of experience developing Windows-based applications by using Visual Studio, including at least six months of experience with Visual Studio 2010 Professional.
In addition, the candidate should be able to demonstrate the following:
- a solid understanding of the .NET Framework 4.0 solution stack for WPF and WinForm applications
- experience in creating data-driven user interfaces for WPF and WinForm applications
- experience in creating layouts by using Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
- experience in programming against the WPF and WinForm object model
- experience with unit testing using MSTest
- experience with setup and deployment projects
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Credit Toward CertificationWhen you pass Exam 70-511: TS: Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4, you complete the requirements for the following certification(s):
- MCTS: .NET Framework 4, Windows Applications
Exam 70-511: TS: Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):
- MCPD: Windows Developer 4
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About this Course
This instructor-led course provides the knowledge and skills to design, optimize, and maintain a database administrative solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
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Audience Profile
The primary audience of this course is IT professionals who design and maintain SQL Server databases. The audience can also comprise technical architects and consultants who design and implement SQL Server solutions. Students taking this course are expected to have three or more years of experience working on databases for two or more of the following phases in the product lifecycle - design, development, deployment, optimization, maintenance, or support.
The students should have experience in the following areas:
- Administering databases
- Designing logical database schema solutions
- Defining high-availability solutions
- Automating administrative tasks
- Defining security solutions
- Monitoring and troubleshooting the database server
- Designing and executing deployments
- Defining the infrastructure (storage, hardware, and number of servers or instances, etc.)
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At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Implement an administrative solution for SQL Server 2008.
- Deploy SQL Server 2008.
- Design the physical structure for SQL Server 2008.
- Design a strategy for maintaining SQL Server 2008.
- Design a strategy for managing SQL Server 2008.
- Automate the database managing strategy for SQL Server 2008.
- Design a strategy for securing databases in SQL Server 2008.
- Design a strategy for monitoring SQL Server 2008.
- Design a strategy for content distribution in SQL Server 2008.
- Design a strategy for replication in SQL Server 2008.
- Design a high availability solution for SQL Server 2008.
- Design a strategy for backup and recovery in SQL Server 2008.
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Audience Profile
Candidates should have one to two years of experience using SQL Server 2008 or two to three years of experience using a previous version of SQL Server. Candidates for this exam are IT professionals who have jobs in which database administration is their main area of responsibility, or they work in environments in which databases are central to their job roles. These job roles include the following:
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IT generalists who work in environments in which SQL Server 2008 R2 is part of an overall solution
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IT professionals who manage systems that run SQL Server 2008 R2
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IT professionals who work with third-party applications that are built on SQL Server 2008 R2
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Developers who build applications that use SQL Server 2008 R2
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Audience Profile
A server administrator is responsible for the operations and day-to-day management of an infrastructure of Windows Server 2008 R2 servers for an enterprise organization. Windows server administrators manage the infrastructure, Web, and IT application servers. The Windows server administrators use scripts and batch files written by others or those that they occasionally write themselves to accomplish tasks on a regular basis. They conduct most server management tasks remotely by using Remote Desktop Server or administration tools installed on their local workstation. A server administrator’s primary tasks include:
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Managing the server operating system, file, and directory services
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Software distribution and updates
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Profiling and monitoring assigned servers
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Troubleshooting
Server administrators also support engineering projects. Server administrators are responsible for server builds and configuration. Their job role involves 60 percent operations, 20 percent engineering, and 20 percent support tasks.
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Audience Profile
The enterprise administrator is responsible for the overall Windows Server 2008 R2 environment and architecture. The enterprise administrator translates business goals into technology decisions and designs mid-range to long-term strategies. Enterprise administrators also make key decisions and recommendations about the following:
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Network infrastructure
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Directory services, identity management, and authentication
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Security policies
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Business continuity (disaster recovery, personnel, equipment, and data)
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Design of IT administrative structure (delegation models)
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Best practices, standards, and service level agreements (SLAs)
The enterprise administrator is responsible for infrastructure design and global configuration changes. The enterprise administrator's job role involves 20 percent operations, 60 percent engineering, and 20 percent support tasks.
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Audience Profile
The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) on Windows Server 2008 credentials are intended for information technology (IT) professionals who work in the complex computing environment of medium to large companies. The MCTS candidate should have at least one year of experience implementing and administering Windows Server 2008 R2 in an environment that has the following characteristics:
- 250 to 5,000 or more users
- multiple physical locations
- multiple domain controllers
- network services and resources such as messaging, databases, file and print, a firewall, Internet access, an intranet, Public Key Infrastructure, remote access, remote desktop, virtualization, and client computer management
- connectivity requirements such as connecting branch offices and individual users in remote locations to corporate resources and connecting corporate networks
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