Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
90 Hours
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) certifications demonstrate comprehensive skills in designing, developing, and deploying applications for a particular job role. Earning the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) credential, shows your ability to use Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft .NET Framework. An MCPD certification validates a comprehensive set of skills required to be successful on the job, and gives managers and potential customers a reliable indicator of your job performance.
The unique design of the Microsoft MCPD certification program incorporates a proven four-step learning process: presentation, demonstration, guidance and independent practice. This four-step proven learning model ensures the greatest level of retention to prepare you for your Microsoft MCPD certification exam.
Three Tracks to choose from:
MCPD: Enterprise Applications Developer Track
To achieve this certification, you must successfully pass three exams: two Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications prerequisite exams and one Professional Series exam.
Exam 70-526: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Windows-Based
Client Development
This course provides students with the knowledge to configure Windows Forms and
manage layout of the user interface and how to create lists, buttons, tool
strips, and menus. This training will also teach you to set up and manage
connections to databases, implement data-bound controls to display information
to users, read, validate, and write XML and how to enhance usability,
accessibility, and user assistance.
Exam 70-536: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Application
Development Foundation
This course provides students with the knowledge to use types, collections,
generics, and regular expressions to manage data and to develop services,
application domains, and multithreaded applications as well as implement code
access and role-based security, and data encryption. This course will also
teach you to work with serialization and reflection techniques, develop
instrument applications with logging and tracing and how to interact with
legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke.
Exam 70–549: PRO: Designing and Developing Enterprise
Applications by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework
This course provides students with the knowledge to envision and design an
application, evaluate the technical feasibility of an application design
concept and to create a proof-of-concept prototype. This training will help
learn to evaluate the technical specifications for an application to ensure
that the business requirements are met, evaluate the design of a database,
evaluate the logical design of an application and how to design and Develop a
User Interface.
MCPD: Windows Developer Track
To achieve this certification, you must successfully pass three exams: two Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications prerequisite exams and one Professional Series exam.
Exam 70-526: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Windows-Based
Client Development
This course provides students with the knowledge to configure Windows Forms and
manage layout of the user interface and how to create lists, buttons, tool strips,
and menus. This training will also teach you to set up and manage connections
to databases, implement data-bound controls to display information to users,
read, validate, and write XML and how to enhance usability, accessibility, and
user assistance.
Exam 70-536: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Application
Development Foundation
This course provides students with the knowledge to use types, collections,
generics, and regular expressions to manage data and to develop services,
application domains, and multithreaded applications as well as implement code
access and role-based security, and data encryption. This course will also
teach you to work with serialization and reflection techniques, develop
instrument applications with logging and tracing and how to interact with
legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke.
Exam 70–548: PRO: Designing and Developing Windows
Applications by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework
This course provides students with the knowledge to envision and design an
application, evaluate the technical feasibility of an application design
concept and to create a proof-of-concept prototype. This training will help
learn to evaluate the technical specifications for an application to ensure
that the business requirements are met, evaluate the design of a database,
evaluate the logical design of an application and how to design and Develop a
User Interface.
MCPD: Web Developer Track
To achieve this certification, you must successfully pass three exams: two Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications prerequisite exams and one Professional Series exam.
Exam 70-526: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Windows-Based
Client Development
This course provides students with the knowledge to configure Windows Forms and
manage layout of the user interface and how to create lists, buttons, tool
strips, and menus. This training will also teach you to set up and manage
connections to databases, implement data-bound controls to display information
to users, read, validate, and write XML and how to enhance usability,
accessibility, and user assistance.
Exam 70-536: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Application
Development Foundation
This course provides students with the knowledge to use types, collections,
generics, and regular expressions to manage data and to develop services,
application domains, and multithreaded applications as well as implement code
access and role-based security, and data encryption. This course will also
teach you to work with serialization and reflection techniques, develop
instrument applications with logging and tracing and how to interact with
legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke.
Exam 70–547: PRO: Designing and Developing Web Applications
by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework
This course provides students with the knowledge to envision and design an
application, evaluate the technical feasibility of an application design
concept and to create a proof-of-concept prototype. This training will help
learn to evaluate the technical specifications for an application to ensure
that the business requirements are met, evaluate the design of a database,
evaluate the logical design of an application and how to design and Develop a
User Interface.
Learning Features
§ Study Mode - un-timed Study Mode allows learners to assess their knowledge and receive detailed responses after each question.
§ Certification Mode - The against-the-clock Certification Mode is designed to mimic a certification exam. In Certification Mode, detailed feedback is available after the exam has been completed.
· Intel® Pentium® 166 MHz processor or greater
· 64 MB RAM minimum, 128 MB recommended
· Minimum video resolution of 800x600, with 16-bit color
· Internet Connection
· Connection speed of 40 Kbps minimum, 56 Kbps recommended
· Windows® 95, 98, 2000, NT or XP
· Valid Email address
· Supported browser versions: Internet Explorer (5x - 6x), Netscape Communicator 4.7 - 7.2
· Allow cookies
· Java Runtime Support
· Microsoft JVM is supported with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x and greater
· Web Accessibility Support
· Supports JAWS screen reader software, versions 3.7u, 4.0, and 4.50
· JAWS 3.7u and Jaws 4.0 require 256 color resolution