Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications Author: William Penberthy | Language: English | ISBN:
0735677220 | Format: EPUB
Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications Description
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-486—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of developing ASP.NET MVC-based solutions. Designed for experienced developers ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Specialist level.
Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:
- Design the application architecture
- Design the user experience
- Develop the user experience
- Troubleshoot and debug web applications
- Design and implement security
This Microsoft Exam Ref:
- Organizes its coverage by exam objectives.
- Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you.
- Includes a 15% exam discount from Microsoft. (Limited time offer)
- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (September 30, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0735677220
- ISBN-13: 978-0735677227
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This book covers the objectives for the Microsoft 70-486: Development ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications certification. Books like this can be difficult to review, particularly if you don't plan to take the exam so you have nothing against which to measure the criteria. However, as the author points out "...this book takes a high-level approach, building on your knowledge of lower-level web application development and extending it into application design."
Like most Microsoft Exam Ref books, this one broke core objectives directly from the exam into chapters. The first chapter focused on the objectives 1.1 to 1.7, which is centered on the design of MVC 4 applications. Much of this text surrounded the theoretical and practical design of an application, and didn't go into any details on using MVC 4.
Chapter 2 covers objectives 2.1 to 2.5, focusing on designing the user experience. This included coverage of CSS, HTML, JavaScript in DOM manipulation, AJAX, layout and cross-browser compatibility techniques. I found parts of this chapter very helpful in practical, every day web development and some of the standards and techniques applied are applicable to all facets of web development, not just necessarily within MVC 4.
Mr. Penberthy then tackles the objectives 3.1 to 3.6, which cover topics in developing the user experience. The information within this chapter I found to be much more pragmatic than the previous chapter covering design. Topics included SEO optimization, semantic markup, globalization, and using models, views and controllers together to control application binding and behaviors. The last objective covers bundling, minification and data compression.
Next came objectives 4.1 to 4.4 on testing, debugging and deployment scenarios.
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