Exam 70-576:

PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications

Published:July 12, 2010
Language(s):English
Audience(s):Developers
Technology:Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Type:Proctored Exam

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Exam Topics Covered
This exam is designed to test the candidate's knowledge and skills on designing developing applications on the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 platform.
Audience Profile
The candidate is responsible for designing custom code for projects that are deployed to SharePoint servers. This includes technology selection across the many ways to build code in SharePoint, ensuring the team development environment is configured, creating a strategy for code deployment, versioning, configuration, or structure.
The candidate also leads a team of SharePoint developers, has at least two years of SharePoint development experience, has at least three years of ASP.NET development experience
Credit Toward CertificationExam 70-576: PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):
MCPD: SharePoint Developer 2010
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Skills Being MeasuredThis exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.

The information after “This objective may include but is not limited to” is intended to further define or scope the objective by describing the types of skills and topics that may be tested for the objective. However, it is not an exhaustive list of skills and topics that could be included on the exam for a given skill area. You may be tested on other skills and topics related to the objective that are not explicitly listed here.
Creating an Application Design (19%)
  • Evaluate application data access and storage
    This objective may include but is not limited to: SharePoint List and relationships, Document Library, SQL Database, BCS, web service, file system, remote BLOB storage, and all other external data sources
  • Identify artifacts from application requirements
    This objective may include but is not limited to: web parts, event receivers, list definitions, list templates, workflows, site definitions, custom actions, content types, site columns, mapping artifacts to application requirements
  • Select a deployment model
    This objective may include but is not limited to: identifying artifacts and execution appropriate for sandbox and farm (i.e. GAC vs. BIN) implementation, designing solutions for single server or multi-server environments, dividing artifacts between sandbox and farm
  • Select the appropriate execution method
    This objective may include but is not limited to: in-page, workflow, event receiver (asynchronous vs. synchronous), timer job, and service application, selecting which logic execution model to use for a problem, determining where code or artifact runs
Designing UX (17%)
  • Determine presentation page type
    This objective may include but is not limited to: Web Part page, application Page, publishing page, page layout, static page
  • Determine SharePoint visual components
    This objective may include but is not limited to: web parts, silverlight, AJAX, ribbon, visual web parts, delegate controls, custom field types, dialog
  • Plan branding strategy
    This objective may include but is not limited to: determining usage of themes, templates, enforce consistency via site definitions, master pages and page layouts, determining usage of CSS styles and JavaScript, designing usage and role of Styles Library or Site Collection Library
  • Design application customization strategy
    This objective may include but is not limited to: supportable customizations allowed through SharePoint UI, SharePoint Designer 2010, VS 2010 (site columns, content types, page customization, themes, page layouts, personalization)
  • Design navigation strategy
    This objective may include but is not limited to: identify inclusion of navigational items (global/current/custom), consume an existing site map provider vs. create a custom provider, determine depth and inclusion of pages/sites, dynamic vs. static navigation, consume an existing navigation control vs. create a custom navigation control
Managing Application Development (18%)
  • Design for localization and globalization
    This objective may include but is not limited to: use and implementation of resource files, variations (content creation and workflow, multilingual content), selecting locales, date and time, regional settings, RTL vs. LTR
  • Develop a security approach
    This objective may include but is not limited to: authentication (NTLM, Kerberos, Forms-based Authentication, claims, Single Sign-On, Anonymous), authorization (SharePoint groups, AD groups, claims, permission levels) enterprise-wide security policies
  • Define application configuration approach
    This objective may include but is not limited to: defining "web.config" modifications, Lists as a configuration option, Property bags, declarative vs. programmatic, SP persisted objects
Optimizing SharePoint Application Design (15%)
  • Optimize page performance
    This objective may include but is not limited to: View State, Inline JS, Inline  CSS, HTML output, AJAX, Client side cache, .NET cache, BLOB Cache, Session State, IIS compression
  • Optimize data access
    This objective may include but is not limited to: SPQuery, SPSiteDataQuery, Large lists, Search (managed properties), SharePoint 2010 query throttling, Client object model vs. web service/rest/SOAP/RPC, Linq
  • Design for logging and exception handling
    This objective may include but is not limited to: Determining appropriate level of logging to include in a custom code project, Evaluating SharePoint log data, Instrumenting code to improve the ability to maintain the system, Determining when exceptions are raised, error values returned, and what should be written to the SharePoint ULS log, Debugger, and Event log
  • Identify and Resolve deployment issues
    This objective may include but is not limited to: single server vs. farm vs. multi-farm, infrastructure vs. content database, web applications, application pools, feature activation failures, pushing applications to front end, security context, feature scope, feature dependencies
  • Analyze memory utilization
    This objective may include but is not limited to: Memory profiling, Disposal of SharePoint objects, Load testing, Identifying memory bottlenecks (hierarchy), Analyze ULS logs, Monitoring memory counters, ensure implemention of IDisposable on custom artifacts containing IDisposable members
Designing SharePoint Composite Applications (13%)
  • Design external application integration
    This objective may include but is not limited to: Selecting appropriate BCS connection from Web Service, .NET Type, and SQL Connection, Defining authentication requirements, Defining solutions that include Office client applications
  • Determine data capture approach
    This objective may include but is not limited to: Evaluate when to use different forms technologies (InfoPath vs. ASP.NET), Office client, Silverlight, BCS, Infopath Forms Services
  • Design SharePoint information architecture
    This objective may include but is not limited to: Content types (local, global), Site columns, Site structure, Taxonomy (managed metadata)
  • Design a workflow solution
    This objective may include but is not limited to: workflow tool (Visio, SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio), Sequential vs. State Machine, Item vs. Site, Declarative vs. Code, custom actions
Designing SharePoint Solutions and Features (18%)
  • Plan SharePoint Features
    This objective may include but is not limited to: Feature Sets, Feature Stapling, determine feature scope, Create a new Feature (vs. extending), activation dependencies, feature receivers
  • Plan SharePoint solution packaging
    This objective may include but is not limited to: Create a new Solution (vs. extending), Manage reference assemblies in a SharePoint WSP solution, solution sets,  solution dependencies,  solution targeting
  • Establishing application modification and version upgrade strategy
    This objective may include but is not limited to: Designing an artifact upgrade strategy,  Feature and solution upgrade,  Site upgrade,  Versioning custom assemblies,  Versioning workflows (new feature, new assembly version, new code),  Resolving incompatible changes between dev and production
  • Develop a strategy for delivery of application modifications and existing data transformation
    This objective may include but is not limited to: Formulating a new version of custom code,  Updating Web parts while retaining properties, connections and other user entered settings,  Content maintenance, Developing a content upgrade strategy, Deployment configurations, Deploying modified code safely (data safe), Preparing scripts (PowerShell, EXE), packages (WSP, MSI), or installers
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