The Web Development Fundenmentals exam (98-363) tests a candidate's knowledge of creating Web applications using Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET framework. 98-363 is an entry level exam.
Before taking the 98-363 exam it's recommend that you have hands on knowledge of building web applications. We recommend using the MSDN library and Visual Studio samples to get started. Visual Studio 2008 is the preferred IDE for learning the topics for this exam however, Visual Studio 2005 is also a worthy choice.
To pass the 98-363 exam you should be able to demonstrate skills in these subject areas:
- An understanding of basic web based application development
- Creating ASP .NET web application using both server side and client side technologies
- Understand the event model of web applications
- Understand web services and why they are used
- How to retrieve and display data in a web application
- How to deploy web applications and host sites on IIS
- Know about configuration options for ASP .NET applications
Other items covered by this exam:
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- CSS stylesheets
- Embedding images and designing layouts of pages
- ASP .NET objects such as Session, Response and HttpContext
- Application states � view state, session state and applications state
- ASP .NET Page life cycle
- Control events and page postbacks
- Web Controls, properties and events
- Configuration files � web.config and machine.config
- Reading xml
- Data connections and datbaases
- Using Dataset and Datatable
- Call a web service
- Http error codes
- Using datasource controls
- Debugging web applications
- Client-side scripting
- Authentication
- AJAX
- Application pools
This exam is available from August 2010.