On June 28, 2004, both of Microsoft's new developer Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
exams went live. These exams apply to both the latest Microsoft Certified Applications
Developer (MCAD) and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) credentials and are
intended to acquaint developers with concepts, requirements, and best practices associated
with designing, building, testing, and maintaining code that's as secure as possible. Not
surprisingly, Microsoft views these exams and what they cover as important outgrowths
from their Trustworthy Computing initiative as they try to teach their own developers,
and the huge audience of those who work with Microsoft programming languages and development
environments, to raise their security consciousness and to start building more secure
services and applications from the ground up.
The two new exams are as follows:
Exam 70-330: Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Exam 70-340: Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET
Although both focus on different programming languages, both do so in the context of
the .NET Framework and related APIs, as well as within the Visual Studio .NET development
environment. Both exams require at least 3 years of development experience with n-tier
applications, and at least 1 year spent working with Visual Studio .NET 2003, including
ASP.NET and ADO.NET. Candidates should also have substantial Web- and Windows-based
application development experience, which Microsoft defines as having been through the
complete development cycle (design, implementation, testing, integration, deployment,
and maintenance/update).
Either exam can be applied as an elective for MCAD or MCSD certification. Recent information is
that a fair number of people are studying and signing up for these exams, but that Visual
Basic .NET has a slight edge over C# .NET.
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