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Microsoft - MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer

A Firebrand Training
13
Day Course

Microsoft MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer - Overview

MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer)

If you are developing .NET Framework 2.0 applications that use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or creating Web applications that use ASP.NET 2.0, the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise Applications Developer (MCPD: Enterprise Applications Developer) credentials highlights your job role, featuring your specific area of expertise. Now you can easily distinguish yourself as an expert in Windows development, Web application development, or distributed applications development.

Technology Specialist (MCTS): .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications

You will have the skills necessary to build interactive, data-driven Web applications that use ASP.NET 2.0 for both intranet and Internet uses.

Technology Specialist (MCTS): .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications

You will have the skills necessary to build rich client applications that target the Windows Forms platform using the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

Technology Specialist (MCTS): .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Applications

You will have the skills necessary to develop, implement, and deploy XML Web services, .NET Framework remoting, Enterprise Services, and Message Queuing technology.

Professional Developer (MCPD): Enterprise Applications Developer

You will have the skills necessary to build n-tier solutions that target both Web and rich-client user experiences.

Our 13 day Microsoft MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer program:

  • Allows you to achieve your certifications in a fraction of the time of 'traditional training' while delivering industry-leading exam passing percentages
  • Helps students grasp complex technical concepts more easily by identifying and catering to individual student learning styles through a mixed visual, auditory and kinaesthetic-tactual delivery system
  • Enhances retention by employing accelerated learning techniques focused on committing information to long-term memory

Microsoft MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer - Benefits

The Microsoft MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer program is a highly interactive 13-day developer class designed to teach Web, Windows, and Distributed Application Developers how to build interactive, data-driven middle-tier and client applications, targeting the Windows Forms platform using the .NET Framework 2.0, produce intranet and Internet Web applications that use ASP.NET 2.0, and develop business and data layer applications that use such technologies as Web Services, Remoting, Enterprise Services, and Queuing.

Firebrand Training Advantage

By offering a total-immersion, zero-distraction, skills-based program utilizing a proprietary accelerated-format curriculum taught by the industry's premier instructors, Firebrand Training guarantees that each student will enjoy the largest return on his or her educational investment, in addition to leaving certified.

Our Microsoft Certified Trainers are cross-certified industry professionals (ranging from renowned authors to senior information technology consultants) with extensive real-world knowledge that is effectively relayed throughout our. Each instructor employs proprietary (Lecture | Lab | Review) delivery philosophy that matches the content presented to each individual learning style.

Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.

Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.

Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need, including

  • Intensive group instruction
  • One-on-one instruction attention
  • Hands-on labs
  • Lab partner and group exercises
  • Question and answer drills
  • Independent study

This information has been provided as a helpful tool for candidates considering certification. Benefits of certification determined through studies do not guarantee any particular personal successes. Firebrand Training provides a guarantee of obtaining certification at the camp, but does not make any guarantees about personal successes or benefits of obtaining certification.

Microsoft MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer - Curriculum

Course Materials

You will receive a robust set of course materials that caters to each of the three primary individual learning-intake styles (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic-tactual) critical for a successful accelerated learning experience.

Foundation

  • Framework Fundamentals
  • Input/Output
  • Searching, Modifying, and Encoding Text
  • Collections and Generics
  • Serialization
  • Graphics
  • Threading
  • Application Domains and Services
  • Installing and Configuring Applications
  • Instrumentation
  • Application Security
  • User and Data Security
  • Interoperation
  • Reflection
  • Mail
  • Globalization
  • Study and Foundation Exam

ASP.NET 2.0

  • Introducing the ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site
  • Adding and Configuring Server Controls
  • Exploring Specialized Server Controls
  • Using ADO.NET and XML with ASP.NET
  • Creating Custom Web Controls
  • Input Validation and Site Navigation
  • ASP.NET State Management
  • Programming the Web Application
  • Customizing and Personalizing a Web Application
  • Implementing Authentication and Authorization
  • Globalization and Accessibility
  • Creating ASP.NET Mobile Web Applications
  • Monitoring, Deploying, and Caching Applications
  • Study and ASP.NET 2.0 Exam

Windows Development 2.0

  • Windows Forms and the User Interface
  • Configuring Controls and Creating the User Interface
  • Advanced Windows Forms Controls
  • Tool Strips, Menus, and Events
  • Implementing Data-Bound Controls
  • Printing in Windows Forms
  • Advanced Topics in Windows Forms
  • Enhancing Usability
  • Asynchronous Programming Techniques
  • Creating Windows Forms Controls
  • Deployment
  • Study and Windows 2.0 Exam

Distributed 2.0

  • Creating an XML Web Service
  • Extending XML Web Services
  • Configuring and Publishing XML Web Services
  • Method Invocations and Event Management with .NET Web Services
  • Creating a Remoting Server Application
  • Creating a Remoting Client Application
  • Debugging and Deploying Remote Applications
  • Method Invocations and Event Management with .NET Remoting
  • Message Queuing
  • Creating Serviced Components
  • Web Services Enhancements 3.0
  • Study and Distributed exam
  • End of MCTS Distributed 2.0

MCPD Enterprise Application Developer

  • Evaluating the Technical Feasibility of an Application
  • Creating Specifications for Developers
  • Design Evaluation
  • Component Design
  • Component Development
  • Multimedia in Distributed Applications
  • Reusable Software Components
  • Design Logic Implementation
  • Logging and Monitoring
  • Planning for Testing
  • Unit Testing: The First Line of Defense
  • Stabilizing the Application
  • Evaluating Application Performance
  • Study and MCPD exam

Microsoft MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer - Exam Track

At Firebrand Training we offer an efficient approach to achieve all certifications in one combined class. The exams provide a valid and reliable measure of technical proficiency and expertise. During the MCPD: Enterprise Applications Developer program students will take the following exams:

MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Application Development Foundation

Exam 70-536 - .NET Framework 2.0 Application Development Foundation, Prerequisite Exam for all 3 MCTS Certifications.

MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications

Exam 70-528 - .NET Framework 2.0 Web-Based Client Development

MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications

Exam 70-526 - .NET Framework 2.0 Windows-Based Client Development

MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Applications

Exam 70-529 - .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Application Development

MCPD: Designing and Developing Enterprise Applications by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework

Exam 70-549 - Designing and Developing Enterprise Applications by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework

Microsoft MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer - What's Included

Firebrand Training offers top-quality technical education and certification training in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so our students can focus solely on their studies and certification goals.

Our Certification Programs includes

  • Intensive Hands-on Training Utilising our (Lecture | Lab | Review)TM Delivery
  • Comprehensive Study Materials, Program Courseware and Self-Testing Software
  • Fully instructor-led program with 24 hour lab access
  • Examination vouchers *
  • On site testing **
  • Accommodation, All Meals, Beverages, and Snacks
  • Transportation to/from designated local railway stations
  • Examination Passing Policy

Please note

  • *  Exam vouchers for our (ISC)2 certifications need to be purchased directly from (ISC)2
  • ** On site testing is not included in our ISACA, or ITIL Managers and Revision Certifications

Our instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualised instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, and question/answer drills.

Firebrand Training has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms. Our students consistently say our facilities are second-to-none.

Examination Passing Policy

Should a student complete a Firebrand Training Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year.  Students will only be responsible for accommodations and vendor exam fees.

Microsoft MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer - Prerequisites

Candidates for the Technology Specialist certifications in Web, Windows and Distributed Applications are expected to have:

  • At least two years' experience developing Microsoft Windows-based applications by using the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • A working knowledge of Visual Studio 2005

Candidates are also encouraged, but not required, to have the following additional experience for the individual MCTS certifications:

  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Web Developer - A basic understanding of web protocols and HTML
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows Developer - A basic understanding of desktop applications development
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Distributed Applications Developer - A basic understanding of multi-tier software development

Candidates for the MCPD: Enterprise Applications Developer certifications are expected to have:

  • At least three to five years of on-the-job experience dedicated to enterprise application development
  • Worked in the following phases in the application life cycle:
    • Technical Envisioning and Planning
    • Design and Development
    • Stabilising and Releasing

Firebrand Training staff interview all potential students regarding their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and personal fortitude. This screening process ensures a successful match between the customer and Firebrand Training toward accelerated training and certification.

Firebrand Training is an aggressive training environment. You must have an attitude aimed for success. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.

MCPD Enterprise Applications Developer Testimonials

"Without a doubt, this is the place to learn. The staff are focused on getting you through the exams, and help you all the way. Thoroughly recommended."
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"An environment created for learning for people keen and willing to learn. "
Richard Warner, Freelance IT Contractor.

"An excellent week! I achieved all I set out to achieve at the beginning of the week."
Adrian Shaw, Vigence.

"Although tiring; this was a well organized, well presented and worthwhile course."
DMG, NATO.

"Firebrand does it again! The rate of learning at these courses is phenomenal, having taken both my CCNA and now a MCTS: SQL Server 2k5 with Firebrand I am now a full convert of the method of teaching employed here. The course structure leans itself to a very aggressive learning curve, but if you stay with it the results will follow. The passion, enthusiasm and patience that the instructor presents every day for the subject and the class really helps you get to grips with the material in the 5 days. One last thing, the food here is fantastic; I attribute this alongside the excellent teaching staff to my success on the course."
Russell Cashman, Reliance High-Tech.

"The courses are intensive and tough but if you keep your head in your book and study, study, study you will come up trumps."
Dean Walton, Digica.

"The overall experience was very tiring, but richly rewarding. The instructor was excellent - technically and personally - he really helped deliver the technical content in everyday terms. The learning centre was excellent - as was the food! I will certainly recommend to my staff and managers to use Firebrand for out training requirements in the future."
AL, Digica Ltd.

"Hard, demanding work but does exactly what is described. Excellent preparation, especially from insights into test question structure and technique. Not for the faint hearted but well worth the effort. "
KML, Veriisign UK.

"If you need to get your certification, this is the place to go. The instructor is helpful and makes sure your ready to tackle the exams."
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"A unique environment dedicated to achieving the goal of learning with focus and high volumes of material - then passing the exam(s)!"
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"Excellent, all round course and facilities."
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"Second time back just reiterated how much I had learned during my first time. Consolidated my learning brilliantly and I passed my exams!"
DJ, Loughborough Primary School.

"A great nine days of training. The subjects were tough, but the instructor broke them down into manageable chuncks. I achieved the goals I set out to and met a great bunch of people on the way. The instructor was brilliant. A really friendy guy who new the subject thoroughly."
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"Firebrand does it again! The rate of learning at these courses is phenomenal, having taken both my CCNA and now a MCTS: SQL Server 2k5 with Firebrand I am now a full convert of the method of teaching employed here. The course structure leans itself to a very aggressive learning curve, but if you stay with it the results will follow. The passion, enthusiasm and patience that the instructor presents every day for the subject and the class really helps you get to grips with the material in the 5 days. One last thing, the food here is fantastic; I attribute this alongside the excellent teaching staff to my success on the course."
Russell Cashman, Reliance High-Tech.

"The intensity of the training ensured that you received plenty of knowledge to enable you to pass the exams. The environment in which the training was undertaken was superb as it removed all distractions from learning the topic. "
PC, MOD.

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"An excellent way to study for the exam - lots of tips and focus on how to pass, all very condensed. I have never had to take in so much in so short a time. "
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"I would like to thank my instructor for providing a first class standard of instruction for what was a difficult course (CCVP). To have maintained this high standard for the whole 14 days is exceptional."
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"Attended with a rudementary understanding of Sharepoint and left feeling confident that I could implement a suitable business solution for my organisation."
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