the following courses helps you to prepare to this exam.

1) Workshop 2543: Core Web Application Technologies with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

This three-day instructor-led workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to develop Microsoft( ASP.NET 2.0 Web applications using Microsoft Visual Studio( 2005. The workshop focuses on user interfaces, Web site structure and functionality, and implementation details

Audience

This workshop is intended for corporate/ISV application developers who have a desire to learn more about specific technology areas in Web application development.

 

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

 

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must:

• Be able to manage a solution environment using the Visual Studio 2005 IDE and tools
• Understand Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and the Common Language Runtime
• Be able to program an application using a .NET Framework 2.0 compliant language
• Know how to make assemblies available to other applications
• Have a basic understanding of XML including XML declaration, elements, attributes, and namespaces
• Have a basic understanding of client-side scripts
• Have a basic understanding of HTML.

 

2) Workshop 2544: Advanced Web Application Technologies with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

This two-day instructor-led workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to develop Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Web applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The workshop focuses on advanced user interfaces, Web site functionality, and implementation details using the advanced features of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.

 

Audience

This workshop is intended for corporate or independent software vendor (ISV) application developers who have a desire to learn more about specific technology areas in Web application development.

 

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Build dynamic Web applications.
• Create controls for Web applications.
• Optimize Web applications.
• Build customizable Web applications.
• Build Web Part pages and Web Parts.

 

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must:

•	Have attended or studied Workshop 2543, Core Web Application Technologies with Visual Studio 2005, or possess equivalent knowledge and skills.
•	Know how to use delegates and events.
•	Know how to improve the security of .NET Framework 2.0 applications.
•	Be able to use instrumentation in code.

 

 

3) Workshop 2541: Core Data Access with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

This three-day instructor-led workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to develop data-access applications by using the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The workshop describes how to access and update data in a database by using ADO.NET. The workshop also describes how to create, read, and write XML data.

 

Audience

This workshop is intended for corporate and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) application developers who have a desire to learn more about specific technology areas in distributed application development.

 

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

•	Connect to databases and read data.
•	Query and update databases by using commands.
•	Perform transactional operations.
•	Perform disconnected operations programmatically.
•	Perform disconnected operations by using Visual Studio 2005 wizards.
•	Perform XML operations on disconnected data.
•	Read and write XML data.
•	Process XML data by using the Document Object Model DOM.

Prerequisites

•	Be able to manage a solution environment using the Visual Studio 2005 integrated development environment IDE and tools
•	Understand the .NET Framework 2.0 and the Common Language Runtime
•	Be able to program an application using a .NET Framework 2.0 compliant language
•	Know how to make assemblies available to other applications
•	Have a good understanding of basic relational database concepts
•	Be able to use basic SQL commands
•	Have a good understanding of XML including XML declaration, elements, attributes, and namespaces
•	Be able to explain XML schema concepts

 

 

4) Workshop 2542: Advanced Data Access with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

This two-day instructor-led workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to use advanced data access features and techniques in the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The workshop describes how to access data and how to implement database functionality by using Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The workshop also describes how to locate, edit, and transform XML by using XPath and Extensible Style sheet Language for Transformations (XSLT).

 

Audience

This workshop is intended for corporate and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) application developers who have a desire to learn more about specific technology areas in distributed application development.

 

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

•	Minimize and handle database operation conflicts.
•	Handle large objects.
•	Enhance database performance.
•	Create managed code objects for SQL Server 2005.
•	Query XML by using XPath.
•	Transform XML by using XSLT style sheets.

 

Prerequisites

•	Have attended or studied Workshop 2541, Core Data Access with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, or possess equivalent knowledge and skills.
•	Know how to use delegates.
•	Be able to use database stored procedures, triggers, and aggregates.
•	Be able to explain XPath concepts and basic syntax.
•	Be able to explain XSLT style sheet concepts.