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Certification summary
The Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD): Web Applications certification validates that you have the ability to develop high-quality, interactive line-of-business and consumer applications using ASP.NET MVC, Windows Azure, HTML5, and CSS3. This Microsoft Visual Studio certification confirms that you have the skills to build modern, interactive web applications that seamlessly integrate with data-driven services.
Exams summary
To get a MCSD: Web Applications certification there are three exams to complete:
Exam 480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
Exam 486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications
Exam 487: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services
A closer look...
The MCSD certification reflects your ability to design and build application solutions that may include integrating multiple technologies and may span multiple versions of a single technology-in the cloud or on-premises and will qualify you for a position as a web developer or web administrator.
Career & Job Opportunities
The Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) is a globally recognised qualification in many industries such as application development, website development and game development. As of 2015, the average salary of a Microsoft MCSD Professional is £40,000pa with more than 90% being offered a salary of more than £35,000pa. The average salary for a MCSD graduate is estimated to be £26,000pa. After graduation, you can find work in roles such as Junior Developer and Graduate .NET Developer with relative ease.
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The three exams
The MCSD Web Applications Training is the latest generation in Microsoft server technology and as such there is no current retirement plan for its exams. Below is a breakdown of the exams for this certification and how they are made up.
Exam 480
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed:
- Implement and manipulate document structures and objects.
- Implement program flow.
- Access and secure data.
- Use CSS3 in applications.
Exam 480
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed: Implement and manipulate document structures and objects, Implement program flow, Access and secure data, Use CSS3 in applications. Here are the percentages that make up the final mark for this exam:
- Implement and manipulate document structures and objects (24%)
- Create the document structure
- Write code that interacts with UI controls
- Apply styling to HTML elements programmatically
- Implement HTML5 APIs
- Establish the scope of objects and variables
- Create and implement objects and methods
- Implement program flow (25%)
- Implement program flow
- Raise and handle an event
- Implement exception handling
- Implement a callback
- Create a web worker process
- Access and secure data (26%)
- Validate user input by using HTML5 elements
- Validate user input by using JavaScript
- Consume data
- Serialise, deserialise and transmit data
- Use CSS3 in applications (25%)
- Style HTML text properties
- Style HTML box properties
- Create a flexible content layout
- Create an animated and adaptive UI
- Find elements by using CSS selectors and jQuery
- Structure a CSS file by using CSS selectors
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Exam 486
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed:
- Design the application architechure.
- Design the user experience.
- Develop the user experience .
- Troubleshoot and Debug web applications.
- Design and implement security.
Exam 486
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed: Design the application architechure, Design the user experience, Develop the user experience, Troubleshoot and Debug web applications, Design and implement security. Here are the percentages that make up the final mark for this exam:
- Design the application architechure (20%)
- Plan the application layers
- Design a distributed application
- Design and implement the Windows Azure role life cycle
- Configure state management
- Design a caching strategy
- Design and implement a Web Socket strategy
- Design HTTP modules and handlers
- Design the user experience (20%)
- Apply the user interface design for a web application
- Design and implement UI behaviour
- Compose the UI layout of an application
- Enhance application behaviour and style based on browser feature detection
- Plan an adaptive UI layout
- Develop the user experience (20%)
- Plan for search engine optimization and accessibility
- Plan and implement globalization and localization
- Design and implement MVC controllers and actions
- Design and implement routes
- Control application behaviour by using MVC extensibility points
- Reduce network bandwidth
- Troubleshoot and Debug web applications (20%)
- Prevent and troubleshoot runtime issues
- Design an exception handling strategy
- Test a web application
- Debug a Windows Azure application
- Design and implement security (20%)
- Configure authentication
- Configure and apply authorization
- Design and implement claims-based authentication across federated identity stores
- Manage data integrity
- Implement a secure site with ASP.NET
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Exam 487
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed:
- Accessing data.
- Querying and manipulating data by using the Entity Framework.
- Designing and implementing WCF Services.
- Creating and consuming Web API-based services.
- Deploying web applications and services .
Exam 487
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed: Accessing data, Querying and manipulating data by using the Entity Framework, Designing and implementing WCF Services, Creating and consuming Web API-based services, Deploying web applications and services. Here are the percentages that make up the final mark for this exam:
- Accessing data (24%)
- Choose data access technologies
- Implement caching
- Implement transactions
- Implement data storage in Windows Azure
- Create and implement a WCF Data Services service
- Manipulate XML data structures
- Querying and manipulating data by using the Entity Framework (20%)
- Query and manipulate data by using the Entity Framework
- Query and manipulate data by using Data Provider for Entity Framework
- Query data by using LINQ to Entities
- Query and manipulate data by using ADO.NET
- Create an Entity Framework data model
- Designing and implementing WCF Services (19%)
- Create a WCF service
- Configure WCF services by using configuration settings
- Configure WCF services by using the API
- Secure a WCF service
- Consume WCF services
- Version a WCF service
- Create and configure a WCF service on Windows Azure
- Implement messaging patterns
- Host and manage services
- Creating and consuming Web API-based services (18%)
- Design a Web API
- Implement a Web API
- Secure a Web API
- Host and manage Web API
- Consume Web API web services
- Deploying web applications and services (19%)
- Design a deployment strategy
- Choose a deployment strategy for a Windows Azure web application
- Configure a web application for deployment
- Manage packages by using NuGet
- Create, configure, and publish a web package
- Share assemblies between multiple applications and servers
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