SYNOPSIS • CIW Professionalvs • Master CIW Enterprise Devvs
CIW’s exam 1D0-430, CIW Application Developer is an
elective requirement for the CIW Professional certification, and one of the
requirements for the Master CIW Enterprise Developer
certification.
It is designed for candidates who are
responsible for creating interactive Web pages using client and server-side
Web applications; accessing relational database systems from Web applications;
implementing applications using component technology; and creating parameters
for environment variables. These candidates typically fulfill these roles: Webmasters,
software developers, application programmers, and client/server developers.
The
prerequisites for
this exam are: 1) to fill out the on-line CIW
Certification Agreement; and 2) to hold the CIW Associate certification.
CIW also recommends, but does not require, that students seeking Master CIW
Enterprise Developer status take (and pass) the CIW Web Languages exams (JavaScript
Fundamentals and Perl
Fundamentals) prior to taking the CIW Application Developer exam.
The pass score for this form-based multiple choice
exam is 75%, with a minimum score of 70% for each of these modules:
Fundamentals of CGI Using Perl, and Dynamic Server Pages. There are 60 questions
and the exam has a duration of 75 minutes.
The
topics covered by this exam include:
Plan and
implement application development projects
Identify
and use various server-side development environments (Perl, ASP, PHP, SSJS, JSP)
Identify
and use various development platforms (UNIX, Windows 2000, and Macintosh)
Identify
and use various communication protocols (HTTP and others)
Perform
server-side and client-side scripting
Define
the application development process
Define
CGI and its significance to the World Wide Web
Use the
HTTP GET and POST request methods
Define Perl
and its distinct benefits to CGI programming
Write
and use Perl scripts and Perl elements
Incorporate
HTML into Perl
Define
PHP, and identify platforms and Web servers that support it
Define
PHP page structure and PHP string functions
Identify
and use variables, data types, and variable functions
Identify
and use operators, conditional statements, loops, arrays, functions and pattern
matching
Define
database basics, including database structure, schemas and SQL
Use the MySQL
database server, and create databases and database tables using MySQL and PHP
Identify
errors and perform error handling
Identify
PHP security issues, including safe mode
Identify
and use ASP files and ASP-based applications, including the Web servers that
support ASP applications
Define
virtual directories, including benefits to server script developers
Define
ODBC, OLE DB, ADO, Global.asa file, and the
structure of ASP technology
ASP
intrinsic objects, including properties and methods of ASP components
Insert,
update and delete records in a database using ASP and ADO
Construct
databases, including data integrity
Define
and use encryption, including the different protocols used in applying
encryption to various situations
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