Credit Toward Certification Exam 70-561: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ADO.NET Application Development: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): .NET Framework 3.5, ADO.NET Applications

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD): Enterprise Applications Developer 3.5

Candidates for this course/exam use Microsoft Visual Studio to develop data-access portions of applications.

Candidates should have a minimum of two to three years of experience developing Web, Windows, or distributed applications by using the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Candidates should have a thorough understanding of relational database concepts and should have a minimum of one to two years of experience using Microsoft SQL Server and other relational database management systems, such as Oracle, DB2, and MySQL.

Connect to data sources; query and retrieve data

Manage data integrity and transactions

Use LINQ to query data across types, including XML

Work with DataSets and in-memory stores

Synchronize data—including smart-caching strategies

Generate an EDM using the Entity Framework

Use ADO.NET Data Services for Internet applications