Microsoft Software Development Fundamentals 98-361

Candidates for this exam are seeking to prove core software development skills. It is recommended that candidates be familiar with the concepts of and have hands-on experience with the technologies described here either by taking relevant training courses or by working with tutorials and samples available on MSDN and in Microsoft Visual Studio. Candidates are expected to have some experience with C# or Microsoft Visual Basic .NET.

Skills measured

• Understanding core programming (15-20%)
• Understanding object-oriented programming (20-25%)
• Understanding general software development (15-20%)
• Understanding web applications (15-20%)
• Understanding desktop applications (15-20%)
• Understanding databases (15-20%)

 

Units

1. SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FUNDAMENTALS WITH .NET: TRAINING 2-PACK FOR MTA 98-361 AND 98-372
2. FRAMING FRONT‑END WEB DEVELOPMENT 98-361 - MICROSOFT
3. MICROSOFT CERTIFIED: POWER PLATFORM DEVELOPER ASSOCIATE PL-400 - MICROSOFT
4. INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING USING JAVASCRIPT 98-382 - MICROSOFT
5. INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING USING JAVA 98-388 – MICROSOFT
6. INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING USING PYTHON 98-381- MICROSOFT
7. 70-357: DEVELOPING MOBILE APPS

 

Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam are seeking to prove core software development skills. It is recommended that candidates be familiar with the concepts of and have hands-on experience with the technologies described here either by taking relevant training courses or by working with tutorials and samples available on MSDN and in Microsoft Visual Studio. Candidates are expected to have some experience with C# or Microsoft Visual Basic .NET.

Skills Measured
NOTE: The bullets that appear below each of the skills measured are intended to illustrate how we are assessing that skill. This list is not definitive or exhaustive.
NOTE: In most cases, exams do NOT cover preview features, and some features will only be added to an exam when they are GA (General Availability).

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