MCP

The Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) program provides the best method to prove a candidate's command of current Microsoft® products and technologies.

Each Microsoft® certification reflects specific skill sets and actual job tasks found in the real world. To become a Microsoft Certified Professional, a candidate must pass one or more rigorous certification exams that provide a valid and reliable measure of technical proficiency and expertise. These exams are developed with the input of professionals in the industry and reflect how Microsoft products are used in organizations throughout the world. It is the building block of the Following Microsoft Certifications:

• MCSE
• MCDBA
• MCSD
• MCP+Site Builder (below)

(Microsoft Certified Professional) MCP + Web Design

Course 1303: Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Fundamentals

Introduction

This course teaches programmers the skills necessary to create Microsoft® Visual Basic® programming system desktop applications and satisfies the Visual Basic prerequisites for course 1013, Mastering Visual Basic 6 Development.

At Course Completion

Students will be able to:

• Build custom, multiple-form applications.
• Incorporate dynamic menus, pop-up menus, status bars, and custom toolbars into applications.
• Implement form-level and field-level input validation.
• Debug applications using debugging tools provided in Visual Basic 6.
• Use standard controls, control arrays, and create controls dynamically.
• Execute centralized error-handling in applications.
• Use the data control for database access.
• Implement drag and drop in Visual Basic-based applications.
• Use Microsoft ActiveX® controls in Visual Basic-based applications.
• Create setup programs to distribute applications.

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

This course is not associated with any Microsoft Certified Professional exams.

Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of programming concepts

Course 1017: Mastering Web Application Development Using Microsoft Visual InterDev 6

Introduction

This course teaches site developers who perform architectural planning, technology selection, or Web site programming tasks how to create enterprise-level Web sites that use component object model (COM) components on both the client and the server.

At Course Completion

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Describe the issues involved in creating an enterprise Web site.
• Create and publish a simple Web site with Microsoft® Visual InterDev™ Web development system version 6.0.
• Create interactive content for a Web site.
• Add server scripting to a Web page using active server pages (ASP) and COM components.
• Implement security in a Web site.
• Read and write information to an OLE DB provider from ASP using Visual InterDev data tools.
• Build reusable, robust COM components with Microsoft Visual Basic® programming system version 6.0 that are compatible with Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS).
• Integrate Web solutions with Microsoft BackOffice® family services.

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

This course will help the student prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exam(s):

• Exam 70-152, Designing and Implementing Web Solutions with Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0

Prerequisites

Students should be able to:

• Browse World Wide Web sites with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
• Send and receive electronic mail with a mail client such as Microsoft Exchange.
• State differences between two-tier and three-tier client/server architecture models.
• Define the Internet and what it is used for.
• Compose a new hypertext markup language (HTML) document with an HTML authoring program such as the Microsoft FrontPage® Web site creation and management tool.
• Use ActiveX® controls and Java applets on a Web page.
• Use a database development tool to:
• Execute queries and call stored procedures.
• Discriminate between record sets and tables.
• Write a simple SQL query using SELECT and WHERE.

This course assumes that the student has intermediate programming competency with Visual Basic. Before attending this course, students must be able to demonstrate the following skills, preferably with Visual Basic:

• Use looping and conditional constructs.
• Create Functions and Sub procedures.
• Use an object model in an application.
• Use the Visual Basic Object Browser or similar tool to examine the properties, methods, and events of objects.
• Completing both the Mastering Fundamentals of Web Site Development and Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 5 Fundamentals courses satisfies the prerequisite skills listed above.