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Description
The Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) credential is the premium certification for professionals who design and develop custom business solutions with Microsoft development tools, technologies, and platforms. The credential covers job tasks ranging from analyzing business requirements to maintaining solutions.

Audience
The MCSD Certification is appropriate for software engineers, software applications engineers, software developers, and technical consultants, to name a few.

Prerequisites
You should be comfortable using Microsoft Office and Microsoft BackOffice and have two years of hands-on experience in development-related areas.

Certification Track
For more information on the specific courses offered in the MCSD .NET Certification track, please refer to the certification track chart below.

Acquired Skills
By passing your MCSD Certification exam, you are certified to analyze business requirements and, based on your analysis, to design, develop, and maintain leading-edge business solutions with Microsoft development tools, technologies, platforms, and the Windows DNA architecture. You can develop applications such as desktop and multi-user, Web-based, N-tier, and transaction-based applications.

Requirements
You must pass three core exams and one elective exam (which you choose from a fairly extensive list of options). The core technology exams test your competency with solution architecture, desktop applications development, and distributed applications development. The elective exam tests your expertise with Microsoft development tools.

For more information on the MCSD credential go to www.microsoft.com/mcsd.

Learning Path to Microsoft MCSD.NET
Course Schedule

Core Exam: Web Application Development
Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (5 days)
Developing Microsoft ASP .NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET (5 days)
Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET (3 days)
Programming with C# (5 days)
Developing Microsoft ASP .NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET (5 days)
Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET (3 days)

Core Exam: Windows Application Development
Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (5 days)
Developing Microsoft .NET Applications for Windows (Visual Basic .NET) (5 days)
Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET (3 days)
Programming with C# (5 days)
Developing Microsoft .NET Applications for Windows (5 days)
Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET (3 days)

Core Exam: XML Web Services and Server Components Development
Developing XML Web Services Using Microsoft ASP .NET (3 days)
Developing Component-Based Applications Using Microsoft .NET Enterprise Services (5 days)
Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET (3 days)
Developing XML Web Services Using Microsoft ASP .NET (3 days)
Developing Component-Based Applications Using Microsoft .NET Enterprise Services (5 days)
Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET (3 days)

Core Exam: Solution Architecture
Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures (5 days)

Elective Exams
Querying MS SQL Server 2000 with T-SQL (2 days)
Programming a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database (5 days)
Developing and Deploying Microsoft Biztalk Server 2000 Solutions (5 days)