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Microsoft 070-576 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications |
| Exam Number: | 70-576 |
| Available Languages: | Spanish, German, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), French, English |
| Exam Format: | Active screen, Drag and drop, Multiple choice, Build list, Case studies |
| Related Certifications: | Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD): SharePoint Developer 2010 |
| Real Exam Qty: | 40-60 |
| Passing Score: | 700 (on a scale of 1000) |
| Exam Duration: | 150 minutes |
| Exam Price: | USD 150 (standard Microsoft certification exam price, region may vary) |
| Certificate Validity Period: | Retired certification exam; historical validity followed Microsoft certification policies at the time |
| Recommended Training: | Microsoft Learn Certification Resources Course 10232A: Designing Applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 |
| Exam Registration: | Microsoft Certification Exam Registration |
| Sample Questions: | ![]() |
| Exam Way: | Delivered through Microsoft authorized testing centers and online proctored testing when available. |
| Pre Condition: | Recommended experience: at least two years of SharePoint development experience, experience with ASP.NET development, Visual Studio, SharePoint APIs, XML schemas, web parts, data access, and SharePoint infrastructure. |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/learning/exams/70-576 |
Microsoft 070-576 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Designing a SharePoint Application | 32% | - Design workflow and service applications
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| Creating an Application Design | 19% | - Design for security
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| Designing the Development and Deployment Strategy | 21% | - Design deployment strategy
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| Designing for Operations and Maintenance | 28% | - Plan application maintenance
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Everything You Want to Know About the Microsoft 070-576 Exam
The 070-576 exam (Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications) is the official Microsoft exam that leads to the MCPD: SharePoint Developer 2010 certification, a credential at the Professional level. Related certifications include Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD): SharePoint Developer 2010, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development. CertkingdomPDF provides 172 practice questions to help you prepare for it with confidence.
The 070-576 exam contains 40-60 questions and gives you 150 minutes to finish them. Before exam day, divide the total time by the question count so you know the pace you need to keep, and flag difficult items instead of getting stuck on them. Running at least one full timed session in the CertkingdomPDF test engine is the best way to make that time pressure feel familiar.
You need 700 (on a scale of 1000) to pass, and the official registration fee is USD 150 (standard Microsoft certification exam price, region may vary). Keep in mind that a failed attempt means paying that fee in full again, so it pays to test yourself first. When your scores on the CertkingdomPDF timed practice tests stay consistently above the passing line, you are ready to book the exam.
Recommended experience: at least two years of SharePoint development experience, experience with ASP.NET development, Visual Studio, SharePoint APIs, XML schemas, web parts, data access, and SharePoint infrastructure. Requirements can change over time, so always double-check the latest eligibility rules before you register on the official Microsoft exam page.
You can book your exam through the official registration channels:
The exam is delivered in the following way: Delivered through Microsoft authorized testing centers and online proctored testing when available..
Microsoft recommends the following training options for this exam:
- Course 10232A: Designing Applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010
- Microsoft Learn Certification Resources
Official courses build the foundation, and the 070-576 practice questions from CertkingdomPDF help you turn that knowledge into exam-day performance.
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The 070-576 syllabus is organized into 4 exam domains. Among the first three are Designing for Operations and Maintenance (28%), Creating an Application Design (19%), Designing a SharePoint Application (32%). For the complete breakdown of topics and subtopics, see the Exam Topics section above.
Microsoft Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications Sample Questions:
You have an existing SharePoint 2010 solution consisting of custom Web Parts deployed to the global assembly cache (GAC). The signing key used for the Web Parts has recently changed. You need to design an update to the Web Parts without any change to the value settings of their properties. Which approach should you recommend?
- A. Programmatically copy the information from the existing Web Parts to their new versions and then remove the old instances.
- B. Deploy the changes within a SharePoint solution.
- C. Update the Web Parts through the Web Part gallery and select the Overwrite if file already exists check box.
- D. Copy the changes directly to the GAC and perform an IISReset.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
You are planning to add more features to a SharePoint 2010 farm. Two developers are working independently in a developer environment; each has created a custom solution with a new feature. You have the following requirements: *Each new feature that the developers created must share an assembly with an existing feature on the production farm. .The new features must be deployed from the developer environment to the production environment. .The possibility must be minimized that an existing application will be unavailable if the assembly needs to be redeployed after a bug fix. .You must use the fewest solutions possible. You need to create a deployment plan that meets these requirements. Which approach should you recommend?
- A. Create a solution for each of the two new features and extend one of the new solutions to include the feature in the other new solution. Then deploy both solutions to the production farm.
- B. Create one solution that combines the two new features with the existing feature and deploy the solution to the production farm.
- C. Create two solutions to deploy the new features and extend the existing solution in the production farm to include the new features.
- D. Create three independent solutions, each consisting of one feature and deploy them separately to the production farm.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
You are designing a SharePoint 2010 application that contains a Web Part. The Web Part must connect to
an
RSS data stream provided by a Web service. The Web service is on another server in the domain. You
need to
recommend an authentication approach that meets the following requirements:
*SharePoint users must not be required to supply additional credentials for the Web service.
.Standard authentication systems available to SharePoint 2010 must be used.
Which authentication approach should you recommend?
- A. Kerberos
- B. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- C. Forms-based authentication (FBA)
- D. NTLM
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
You are designing an application configuration approach for a custom SharePoint 2010 application. You need to design the application configuration to: *Store and secure custom configuration settings for the application including connection strings, server names, file paths, and other miscellaneous settings. .Read and display the settings on the site with an administrative user interface that can be configured using a custom _layouts page.
.Store configuration settings at the farm, Web application, site collection, and site levels as needed. You need to design a storage option that is simple and lightweight in structure and programmatically configurable. Which approach should you recommend?
- A. Use a property bag to store the custom configuration settings.
- B. Use a hierarchical object store to save the custom configuration settings and programmatically read it to display the custom settings.
- C. Add custom configuration settings to the web.config file and programmatically read this file to display the custom settings.
- D. Use SharePoint lists to store the custom configuration settings.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
You are consulting with a customer who has an Internet-facing SharePoint 2010 site. The SharePoint farm runs across multiple servers. The customer needs to improve the user experience on the site by improving Web page load times. The site customization requires extensive resources, including large image files, custom CSS, and JavaScript files. You need to suggest a way to help improve the SharePoint site performance that does not require a hardware upgrade. What should you recommend that the customer do?
- A. Create an additional Microsoft SQL Server database to store the configuration database that stores the data for the site.
- B. Configure the query servers in the farm as additional Web servers and verify that the object cache is enabled on all Internet-facing Web sites.
- C. Enable disk-based caching on the Web servers for the Internet-facing Web site.
- D. Reconfigure the Web servers to increase the size of their page files.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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