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Developer Exams Now Live

Registration for security-focused developer exams 70-330 and 70-340 begins June 28.

By Michael Domingo
06/28/2004

On Monday, Pearson VUE and Prometric testing centers opened up registration for two new, security-focused developer exams that count toward the MCSD on Visual Studio .NET title. Microsoft completed public beta testing of these exams in April this year (for details on the beta, see "Developer Exams Spotlight Security" in the News archive).

Microsoft recommends that candidates who plan to take Exam 70-330, Implementing Security for Applications with Visual Basic .NET, have at least three years of experience developing secure Web- and Windows-based applications, with a year's experience specifically using Visual Studio .NET 2003.

To develop security-related coding skills, Microsoft recommends the following courses and study guides:

2300, Developing Security-Enhanced Web Applications (
2350, Developing and Deploying Secure Microsoft .NET Framework Applications
2806, Microsoft Security Guidance Training for Developers
2840, Developing Secure Applications
MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET (Microsoft Press, available August 2004)
Writing Secure Code, Second Edition, by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0735617228)
"Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures," from MSDN Library Online.

Exam 70-340, Implementing Security for Applications with Visual C# .NET, has similar recommendations and prerequisites, but the concentration is on secure application development with Visual C# .NET.

To view the exam objectives:

70-330: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-330.asp
70-340: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-340.asp

For Visual Studio information and resources, go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/.

About the Author

Michael Domingo has held several positions at 1105 Media, and is currently the editor in chief of Visual Studio Magazine.

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