Cleared MCPD 70-576 exam / Prepartion material and links for 70-576

I sat for 70-576 – PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications exam last Saturday and it went very well. I cleared the exam with good score. Though score was less than my last certification exam 70-573 I was happy to earn the score of 830 after spending lot of month for preparing myself for exam and getting the required confidence and Knowledge.

I discovered lot of SharePoint areas which were in dark for me before exam preparation. The amount of knowledge I gain is huge. Hoping that I will get chance to implemented all my learning in some of the projects I do then only it will stay with me forever and I will never forgot.

How I prepared for the exam?

There is no specific book which will cover all syllabus required for exam (even I don’t like reading book from start to end, I get lost in them). So the best way was to know the syllabus and learn all topics one by one with Google search.

While searching for the topic and learning I was gathering all the links in Excel for this blog post. Find below all relevant links for study:-

Sr. No.	Topic	Subtopic	Url
1	Managing Application Development	SP persisted objects	·         Persisted Object
2	Managing Application Development	declarative vs. programmatic	·         declarative vs. programmatic
3	Optimizing SharePoint Application Design	IIS compression	·         SharePoint-Compression-in-IIS ·         tips-utilizing-iis-7-compression
4	Designing SharePoint Solutions and Features	Feature Stapling	·         feature-stapling-in-sharepoint-2010 ·         tip ·         Stapling
5	Creating an Application Design	remote BLOB storage(RBS)	·         configure-remote-blob ·         RBS ·         RBS
6	Creating an Application Design	custom actions	·         custom actions ·         custom actions
7	Creating an Application Design	sandbox solution	·         Can Be Implemented in Sandboxed ·         Sandboxed Solutions Architecture ·         Restrictions on Sandboxed ·         Dev,Deploy
8	Designing SharePoint Composite Applications	SharePoint 2010 Architectures Overview	·         Architecture
9	Managing Application Development	Develop a security approach-authentication	·         MSDN
10	Designing UX	Design navigation strategy	·         Optimize-SharePoint-2010-with-Breadcrumb ·         Single Breadcrumb
11	Designing SharePoint Composite Applications	Design external application integration Office Integration	·         create External Content Type ·         Create External List ·         External List to Outlook
12	Designing SharePoint Solutions and Features	Plan SharePoint solution packaging	·         Solution Schema ·         Creating Solution Manifest ·         SharePoint-solution-packages-wsp-files
13	Managing Application Development	use and implementation of resource files	·         using-resource-files ·         localization-with-visual-studio
14	Managing Application Development	multilingual content	·         Plan For Multilingual ·         Create Site IN different Language ·         Deploy Language Pack ·         Multilingual User Interface ·         Word Breaker and Stemmers
15	Optimizing SharePoint Application Design	How to Configure SharePoint 2010 Logs	·         How to Configure ·         MSDN
16	Optimizing SharePoint Application Design	Cache	·         Cache ·         what’s-going-to-happen
17	SharePoint 2010	Client Object Model	·         COM
18	SharePoint 2010	SharePoint Timer Job	·         Jobs
19	SharePoint 2010	SharePoint Architecture	·         Arch
20	SharePoint 2010	Building Block: Mobile Pages, Controls, and Adapters	·         Mobile
21	SharePoint 2010	How to: Add and Remove Web.config Settings Programmatically	·         SpWebConfigModification
22	SharePoint 2010	Disposing Objects	·         Ways
23	SharePoint 2010	KeywordQuery Class	·         KeywordQuery Class ·         Details MSDN
24	SharePoint 2010		·
25	SharePoint 2010	List Throttling and All limits with list	·         List Throttle
26	SharePoint 2010	Document Converter for SharePoint	·         Converter Stack ·         MSDN 1 ·         MSDN 2 ·
27	SharePoint 2010	WebPart Verb	·         WebPart Verb
28	SharePoint 2010	New Events in SharePoint Foundation 2010	·         MSDN
29	SharePoint 2010	Export a site, list, or document library in SharePoint Server 2010	·         Export ·          site, list, or document library in SharePoint Server 2010
30	SharePoint 2010	Custom error,Access denied Page	·         Custom pages
31	Designing SharePoint Solutions and Features	Multi Tenancy and Feature Pack	·         Multi Tenancy and Feature Pack
32	Designing SharePoint Solutions and Features	Feature Upgrade Overview	·         Feature Upgrade Overview
33	Designing SharePoint Solutions and Features	How to: Use Upgrade Code to Activate a Feature with Dependencies	·         Upgrade ·         Feature Upgrade ·         Steps
34	Designing SharePoint Solutions and Features	Inside a SharePoint Content DB	·         Inside a SharePoint Content DB
35	Designing SharePoint Composite Applications	Understanding Business Connectivity Services	·         Understanding Business Connectivity Services
36	Designing SharePoint Composite Applications	Detailed Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2010	·         Excel Services ·         Overview
37	Determine data capture  approach	SharePoint List vs InfoPath Form Library	·         Determine data capture  approach
38	Optimizing SharePoint Application Design	SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: Software boundaries and limits	·         Software Limits
39	Design for logging and  exception handling	Developer Dashboard	·         Dashboard
40	Design for logging and  exception handling	Log SharePoint Exception via SPDiagnosticsService	·         SPDignostics
42	Design for logging and  exception handling	Using SPMonitoredScope	·         Monitored Scope
43	Optimize data  access	Writing Efficient Code in SharePoint Server	·         Code
44	Optimize data  access	SPQuery,SPSiteDataQuery, CrossListQueryInfo and KeywordQuery Class	·         Query
45	Optimize page  performance	Cache settings operations (SharePoint Server 2010)	·         Cache
46		State Management Overview	·         State ·         Code Project
47	Define application  configuration approach	Plan Web page authoring (SharePoint Server 2010)	·         Authoring
48	Develop a security  Approach	Turn on Anonymous Access	·         Steps
49	Develop a security  approach	Plan authentication methods (SharePoint Server 2010)	·         Methods
50	Design for localization  and globalization	Variations overview (SharePoint Server 2010)	·         Variation
51	Design for localization  and globalization	Walkthrough: Localizing Columns, Content Types, and Lists	·         Localize ·         Term Set ·         Localizing a Web Part ·         Understanding the Multilingual User Interface (MUI)
52	Select the appropriate  execution method	Timer Jobs in SharePoint 2010	·         Complete Guide to Writing
53	Select a deployment  model	What Are the SharePoint Execution Models?	·         Model
54	Select a deployment  model	Deploying	·         CAS ·         Foundation
55	Identify artifacts from  application requirements	Modify the User Interface Using Custom Actions	·         Custom Actions
56	Identify artifacts from  application requirements	Service Application Framework	·         Framework

Happy Studying J