Microsoft Technology Associate
MTA 98-361 Software Development Fundamentals
Candidates for this exam are in the process of expanding their knowledge and skills in the following areas:
o Core programming concepts
o Object-oriented design and programming
o General software development strategies and practices
o Understanding Web applications
o Understanding Windows Forms and console-based applications
o Understanding relational database systems
Exam Review Kit Objective Domain
This Exam Review Kit provides lessons that reinforce previous learning in the following objectives:
1. Understanding Core Programming
1.1. Understand computer storage and data types.
This objective may include but is not limited to: 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.
1.2. Understand computer decision structures.
This objective may include but is not limited to: 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.
1.3. Identify the appropriate method for handling repetition.
This objective may include but is not limited to: For loops, While loops, Do…While
loops, and recursion.
1.4. Understand error handling.
This objective may include but is not limited to: structured exception handling.
2. Understanding Object-Oriented Programming
2.1. Understand the fundamentals of classes.
This objective may include but is not limited to: properties, methods, events, and
constructors; how to create a class; how to use classes in code.
2.2. Understand inheritance.
This objective may include but is not limited to: inheriting the functionality of a base
class into a derived class.
2.3. Understand polymorphism.
This objective may include but is not limited to: extending the functionality in a class
after inheriting from a base class; overriding methods in the derived class.
2.4. Understand encapsulation.
This objective may include but is not limited to: creating classes that hide their
implementation details while still allowing access to the required functionality through
the interface; access modifiers.
3. Understanding General Software Development
3.1. Understand application life cycle management.
This objective may include but is not limited to: phases of application life cycle
management; software testing.
3.2. Interpret application specifications.
This objective may include but is not limited to: reading and translating application
specifications into prototypes, code, and components.
3.3. Understand algorithms and data structures.
This objective may include but is not limited to: arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, and
sorting algorithms; performance implications of various data structures; choosing the
right data structure.
NOT: algorithm analysis.
4. Understanding Web Applications
4.1. Understand Web page development.
This objective may include but is not limited to: HTML, Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS), JavaScript.
4.2. Understand Microsoft ASP.NET Web application development.
This objective may include but is not limited to: page life cycle; event model; state
management; client-side vs. server-side programming.
4.3. Understand Web hosting.
This objective may include but is not limited to: creating virtual directories and Web
sites; deploying Web applications; understanding the role of Internet Information
Services.
4.4. Understand Web services.
This objective may include but is not limited to: Web services that will be consumed
by client applications; accessing Web services from a client application; SOAP and
Web Service Definition Language (WSDL).
5. Understanding Desktop Applications
5.1. Understand Windows Forms applications.
This objective may include but is not limited to: Windows Forms event model; visual
inheritance; UI design; use of Multiple Document Interface (MDI) and Single
Document Interface (SDI) applications.
5.2. Understand console-based applications.
This objective may include but is not limited to: characteristics and capabilities of
console-based applications.
5.3. Understand Windows Services.
This objective may include but is not limited to: characteristics and capabilities of
Windows Service.
6. Understanding Databases
6.1. Understand relational database management systems.
This objective may include but is not limited to: characteristics and capabilities of
database products; database design; Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs);
normalization concepts.
6.2. Understand database query methods.
This objective may include but is not limited to: structured query language (SQL),
creating and accessing stored procedures, updating data, selecting data.
6.3. Understand database connection methods.
This objective may include but is not limited to: connecting to various types of data
stores such as flat file; XML file; in-memory object; resource optimization.
Authors(Pat Yongpradit, Peggy Fisher, Patricia Philips)
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