My 70-565 MCPD Enterprise .NET 3.5 Study Guide

So I have now passed all six exams to achieve the MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer) Enterprise 3.5.  It's been about two years in the making.  Here is a list of the materials I used.  I also included a complete list of all the MSDN articles I found useful broken out by topic and subtopic for the exam.  You should find this helpful.

Practice Exams:

Transcender exam pack for 70-565

Books I found helpful in studying for the 70-565:

 -      - MCPD Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-549): Designing and Developing Enterprise Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework (Certification Series)

        - Microsoft® .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (Pro-Developer)

MSDN and Microsoft Web Resources

General:

Design Fundamentals

Enterprise Templates Booklet

By Exam Topic and Sub Topic:

Envisioning and Designing an Application (21 percent)

  Analyze and refine the logical design of the application

• Part 3: Architecture and Application Modeling
• Chapter 6: Presentation Layer Guidelines
• Chapter 5: Layered Application Guidelines

  Analyze and refine the physical design of the application

• ASP.NET 2.0 Migration Overview
• IIS 7.0: Specify a .NET Framework Version for an Application Pool
• Deployment Plan
• Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2^nd Edition – October 2009
• Assemblies in the Common Language Runtime

  Analyze and refine the database design of the application

• Analyze Deadlocks with SQL Server Profiler                        
• Types of Table Relationships
• Types of Functions
• Triggers Compared to Constraints
• Creating Views and Stored Procedures

  Analyze and refine the integration strategy

• Smart Client Software Factory

  Identify the appropriate technology

• What is Windows Communication Foundation
• ASP.NET Web Services or .NET Remoting: How to Choose
• Chapter 14: Designing Workflow Components
• Appendix E: Workflow Technology Matrix
• Chapter 9: Service Layer Guidelines
• WCF Bindings Overview
• System-Provided Bindings
• Presentation Layer Guidelines
• Appendix B: Presentation Technology Matrix
• Choosing a Channel
• How To: Improve Serialization Performance

  Analyze technical feasibility

• Proof-of-Concept Design

  Analyze security requirements

• Chapter 18: Communication and Messaging
• Windows Authentication Provider
• IIS 7.0 Configuring Authentication in IIS 7.0
• Managing Claims and Authorization with the Identity Model
• Access Control Mechanisms
• Connection String Syntax
• .NET Security Overview
• Code Access Security
• Code Access Security and ADO.NET
• Role-Based Security

Designing and Developing an Application Framework (25 percent)

  Choose an appropriate implementation approach for the application design logic

• Update Model Wizard (Entity Data Model Tools)
• ADO.NET Entity Data Model Tools
• Session-State Modes
• Appendix C: Data Access Technology Matrix
• ASP.NET Configuration File Hierarchy and Inheritance
• Protecting Connection Information
• ASP.NET IIS Registration Tool (Aspnet_regiis.exe)
• ASP.NET State Management Overview
• ASP.NET State Management Recommendations
• ASP.NET Profile Properties Overview
• Architecture
• Session-State Modes
• Introducing LINQ to Relational Data
• LINQ to XML
• LINQ to Objects
• Hardware and Software Requirements
• What’s New: SQL Server Compact: DeflateStream

  Define the interaction between framework components

• Securing Web Services Created Using ASP.NET
• Understanding Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
• Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code
• WCF REST Programming Model Overview
• An Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in JavaScript and .NET

  Define a validation strategy

• How to:  Add Validation to Entity Classes
• Implementing Business Logic (LINQ to SQL)
• Chapter 5: Layered Application Guidelines
• Chapter 17: Design Steps for Validating Input and Data
• Constraints
• Service Station: Extending WCF with Custom Behaviors
• Configuring and Extending the Runtime with Behaviors
• How to: Protect Against Script Exploits in a Web Application by Applying HTML Encoding to Strings

  Define an event-logging strategy

• Adding Logging Capabilities to an Application
• Introduction to the EventLog Component
• Configure Message Logging
• HTTP Handlers and HTTP Modules Overview
• Step 6 – Determine Your Exception Logging Strategy

  Define a monitoring strategy for specific characteristics or aspects of an application

• Introduction to Instrumentation and Tracing
• Lock and Thread Performance Counters
• Memory Performance Counters
• Introduction to Monitoring Performance Thresholds

Designing Application Components (23 percent)

  Create the high-level design of a component

• Qualifying .NET Types for Interoperation
• Apply Interop Attributes
• UML Use Case Diagrams: Reference
• Developing Models for Software Design
• Private Constructors
• Access Modifiers
• Chapter 10: Component Guidelines
• Inheritance (C# Programming Guide)
• UML Class Diagrams: Reference

  Define the internal architecture of a component

• Friend Assemblies
• Access Modifiers
• Chapter 10: Component Guidelines
• Recommendations for Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces
• Reflection
• Implementing a Dispose Method
• Reflection Overview

  Define the data handling for a component

• Check Constraintsd
• Working with Default Constraints
• Chapter 15: Designing Data Components
• Deferred versus Immediate Loading (LINQ to SQL)
• Single Bulk Copy Operations
• About Bulk Import and Bulk Export Operations
• Chapter 13: Designing Business Entities

  Consume components

• Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA’s)
• Redirecting Assembly Versions
• Working with Assemblies and the Global Assembly Cache
• Design Recommendations for Interfaces and Components

  Define a strategy for exceptions and other component feedback

• ErrorProvider Components (Windows Forms)
• Specifying and Handling Faults in Contracts and Services
• Defining and Specifying Faults
• Sending and Receiving Faults
• BindingSource.DataError Event
• Design Steps for Exception Management
• Recommendations for Handling Exceptions in Components
• Exception Class and Properties

Stabilizing and Testing an Application (17 percent)

  Define a performance testing strategy

• Unit Testing
• Understanding Load Tests
• Working with Unit Tests
• Working with Generic Tests
• Optimizing the Application
• Profiling Tools Performance Session Overview
• Overview of Windows Performance Monitor
• Understanding Sampling Data Values in Profiling Tools
• Understanding Instrumentation Data Values in Profiling Tools
• Hard Disk Bottleneck
• About Scenarios
• About Load Pattern
• Runtime Profiling
• Performance Tuning Overview

  Define a functional testing strategy

• Using Publicize to Create Private Accessors
• MSIL Disassembler (Ildasm.exe)
• How to: Run Automated Tests from the Command Line using MSTest
• MSBuild Overview
• Anatomy of a Unit Test
• Write Maintainable Unit Tests That Will Save You Time and Tears
• Recommendations for Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces

  Perform integration testing

• Integration Testing
• Functional Integration

  Perform a code review

• Chapter 13 – Code Review: .NET Application Performance
• Code Reviews: Find and Fix Vulnerabilities Before Your Application Ships

  Resolve a bug

• Alter Table (Transact-SQL)
• Cascading Referential Integrity Constraints
• Establishing the Connection
• Using Statement

Migrating, Deploying, and Maintaining an Application (13 percent)

  Create a deployment plan

• Installer vs. Merge Module Recommendations
• Introduction to Merge Modules

 Choosing a Deployment Strategy

 ClickOnce Deployment Overview

 Deployment Conditions

 MsiNetAssemblySupport Property

 How to: Install Prerequisites with a ClickOnce Application

 Updating a Current Deployment to .NET 3.5

  Analyze the configuration of the production environment

• ASP.NET Deployment Overview
• Web Application Projects Overview

  Analyze performance monitoring data

• Optimizing the Application
• Profiling Tools Performance Session Overview
• Runtime Profiling
• WMI Reference

  Analyze logs

• WMI .NET Overview