Preparation Guide for Exam 70-305

Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

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	Audience profile
	Credit toward certification
	Preparation tools and resources
	Microsoft online resources
	Skills measured

Exam news

Exam 70-305 became available in July 2002.

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Audience profile

Candidates for this exam work on a team in a medium or large development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Enterprise Developer Edition. Candidates should have at least one year of experience developing Web-based applications. Candidates should have a working knowledge of Microsoft Visual Basic .NET.

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Credit toward certification

When you pass Exam 70-305: Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, you achieve Microsoft Certified Professional status.

You also earn credit toward the following certifications:

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Preparation tools and resources

In addition to your hands-on experience working with the product, Microsoft Learning recommends that you use the following tools and training to help you prepare for this exam. These training resources do not necessarily cover all of the topics listed in the "Skills measured" section.

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Microsoft online resources

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Skills measured

This certification exam measures your ability to develop and implement Web-based applications with Web forms, ASP.NET, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Before taking the exam, you should be proficient in the job skills listed in the following table. The table shows which Official Microsoft Learning Products may help you reach competency in the skills being tested in the exam.

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Skills measured by Exam 70-305	Course 2310	Course 2389	Course 2640
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.

Note This preparation guide is subject to change at any time without prior notice and at the sole discretion of Microsoft. Microsoft exams might include adaptive testing technology and simulation items. Microsoft does not identify the format in which exams are presented. Please use this preparation guide to prepare for the exam, regardless of its format.

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