MCSD Certification Training

Use analytical tools to parse HTML;

Provide an xml sitemap and robots.txt file to improve scraping;

Write semantic markup for accessibility, for example, screen readers;

Use rich snippets to increase content visibility

Plan a localization strategy;

Create and apply resources to UI including JavaScript resources;

Set cultures and implement server-side localization and globalization

Design and implement MVC controllers and actions

Apply authorization attributes, filters (e.g., including global, authentication, and overridden filters);

Use choose and implement custom HTTP status codes and responses;

Implement action results;

Implement MVC areas;

Implement Dependency Injection for services in controllers;

Define a route to handle a URL pattern;

Apply route constraints; ignore URL patterns;

Add custom route parameters and define areas;

Define routes that interoperate with Single Page Application frameworks such as Angular

Create custom middleware and inject it into the pipeline;

Implement MVC filters and controller factories;

Control application behavior by using action results, model binders, and route handlers;

Inject services into a view

Serialize models and data using supported serialization formats, including JSON, XML, protobuf, and WCF/SOAP;

Implement model and property binding, including custom binding and model validation;

Implement web socket communication in MVC

Implement file uploading and multipart data;

Use AutoRest to build clients

Troubleshoot performance, security, and errors;

Implement tracing, logging, and debugging (including IntelliTrace);

Enable and configure health monitoring (including Performance Monitor));

Configure and use App Insights runtime telemetry

Handle exceptions across multiple layers; use MVC middleware to configure error handling;

Use different exception handling strategies for different environments;

Create and display custom error pages;

Configure a custom pipeline for error handling;

Handle first chance exceptions;

Configure and use App Insights;

Log application exceptions;

Create and run unit tests, for example, use the Assert class, create mocks and stubs;

Create and run web tests including using Browser Link;

Debug a web application in multiple browsers and mobile emulators;

Use Azure DevTest Labs; use Visual Studio Team Services

Collect diagnostic information by using Azure App Insights;

Choose log types, for example, event logs, performance counters, and crash dumps;

Stream logs directly to Visual Studio from a deployed site;

Debug an Azure application by using Visual Studio and remote debugging;

Interact directly with remote Azure websites using Server Explorer

Enforce authentication settings

Implement ASP.NET Core Identity and enable Facebook, Google and other external providers;

Implement account confirmation, password recovery, and multi-factor authentication.

Perform authentication using Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory B2B, and Microsoft Identity manage user session by using cookies;

Acquire access tokens using the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL)

Create roles; authorize roles programmatically; configure and work with custom User Stores using middleware; configure controllers and actions to participate in authorization

Design and implement claims-based authentication

Perform authentication and authorization using tokens including OpenID, OAuth, JWT, SAML, bearer tokens, etc.

Apply encryption to application data; apply encryption to the configuration sections of an application;

Sign application data to prevent tampering; secure data using Azure Key Vault;

Implement encryption for data protection using the data protection APIs in transit and at rest

Secure communication by applying SSL certificates

Require SSL for all requests;

Enable SSL hosting in the development environment;

Implement SSL using Azure Load Balancers; salt and hash passwords for storage;

Use HTML encoding to prevent cross-site scripting attacks (ANTI-XSS Library);

Implement deferred validation and handle unvalidated requests, for example, form, query string, and URL;

Prevent SQL injection attacks by

Parameterizing queries; prevent cross-site request forgeries (XSRF);

Use Azure Security Center to monitor Azure resources;

Implement Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

Implement protection against open redirect attacks

Use the Task Parallel library, including the Parallel. For method, PLINQ, Tasks; create continuation tasks; spawn threads by using Thread Pool; unblock the UI; use async and await keywords; manage data by using concurrent collections

Synchronize resources; implement locking; cancel a long-running task; implement thread-safe methods to handle race conditions

Iterate across collection and array items; program decisions by using switch statements, if/then, and operators; evaluate expressions,

Create event handlers; subscribe to and unsubscribe from events; use built-in delegate types to create events; create delegates; lambda expressions; anonymous methods

Handle exception types, including SQL exceptions, network exceptions, communication exceptions, network timeout exceptions; use catch statements; use base class of an exception; implement try-catch-finally blocks; throw exceptions; rethrow an exception; create custom exceptions; handle inner exceptions; handle aggregate exceptions

Create value types, including structs and enum; create reference types, generic types, constructors, static variables, methods, classes, extension methods; create optional and named parameters; create indexed properties; create overloaded and overridden methods

Box or unbox to convert between value types; cast types; convert types; handle dynamic types; ensure interoperability with unmanaged code that accesses COM APIs

Enforce encapsulation by using properties; enforce encapsulation by using accessors, including public, private, protected, and internal; enforce encapsulation by using explicit interface implementation

Design and implement an interface; inherit from a base class; create and implement classes based on the IComparable, IEnumerable, IDisposable, and IUnknown interfaces

Create and apply attributes; read attributes; generate code at runtime by using Code-Dom and lambda expressions; use types from the System. Reflection namespace, including Assembly, PropertyInfo, MethodInfo, Type

Manage unmanaged resources; implement IDisposable, including interaction with finalization; manage IDisposable by using the Using statement; manage finalization and garbage collection

Manipulate strings by using the StringBuilder, StringWriter, and StringReader classes; search strings; enumerate string methods; format strings; use string interpolation

Validate JSON data; choose the appropriate data collection type; manage data integrity; evaluate a regular expression to validate the input format; use built-in functions to validate data type and content

Choose an appropriate encryption algorithm; manage and create certificates; implement key management; implement the System. Security namespace; hashing data; encrypt streams

Version assemblies; sign assemblies using strong names; implement side-by-side hosting; put an assembly in the global assembly cache; create a Win MD assembly

Create and manage pre-processor compiler directives; choose an appropriate build type; manage program database files and (debug symbols)

Implement logging and tracing; profiling applications; create and monitor performance counters; write to the event logs.

Read and write files and streams; read and write from the network by using classes in the System.Net namespace; implement asynchronous I/O operations

Retrieve data from a database; update data in a database; consume JSON and XML data; retrieve data by using web services

Query data by using operators, including projection, join, group, take, skip, aggregate; create method-based LINQ queries; query data by using query comprehension syntax; select data by using anonymous types; force execution of a query; read, filter, create, and modify data structures by using LINQ to XML.

Serialize and deserialize data by using binary serialization, custom serialization, XML Serializer, JSON Serializer, and Data Contract Serializer

Store and retrieve data by using dictionaries, arrays, lists, sets, and queues; choose a collection type; initialize a collection; add and remove items from a collection; use typed vs. non-typed collections; implement custom collections; implement collection interfaces.