Microsoft Software Development Fundamentals
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Microsoft Software Development Fundamentals Certification
Skills measured
This exam measures the 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 are likely to see on that content area on the exam.
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 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
