Steven Borg, Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCSD.NET
Steve has over 14 years of experience creating technical solutions to a variety of civilian and military problems. He has been the primary .NET Solution presenter for Microsoft Academic at MIT, Harvard, University of Houston and several other noted institutes of higher education throughout the United States. Steve has been requested by different courseware development teams at Microsoft to teach the Beta versions of their new courseware. Steve has taught both Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) 2310 Introduction to ASP.NET, and MOC 2609 Introduction to Programming with C# to both students and the instructional designers. His recommendations have resulted in numerous changes to improve both Microsoft official curriculums. Steve has also taught the world-wide T-Prep of both .NET courses.
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Level 1
Designing Business Solutions
1.1 Key Disciplines
1.2 Iteration Best Practices
1.3 Phases
1.4 Review
Lab - The MSF Process Model
Level 2
Gathering & Analyzing Information
2.1 Benefits of Modeling
2.2 UML- Unified Modeling Language
2.3 UML Views
2.4 UML Diagrams
2.5 Use Cases
2.6 Usage Scenario
2.7 Requirements
2.8 Gathering Information
2.9 Sources of Information
2.10 Analyzing Information
Lab - Types of UML Diagrams
Level 3
Creating the Logical Design
1.1 Team Roles
1.2 Logical Design Model
1.3 Relationships
1.4 Documenting Logical Design Outputs
1.5 Refining Objects
1.6 Establishing Control
1.7 Review
Lab - The Product Management Role
Goals and Physical Design
2.1 Deliverables
2.2 Physical Design Analysis
2.3 Physical Design Analysis
2.4 Physical design Rationalization
2.5 Cohesion and Coupling
2.6 Packing Components
2.7 Physical Design Implementation
2.8 Review
Lab - The Development Role
Presentation Layer
3.1 Designing the User Interface
3.2 Designing User Process Components
3.3 Review
Level 4
Designing the Data Layer
1.1 Designing the Data Store
1.2 Optimizing Data Access
1.3 Partitioning Data
1.4 Implementing Data Validation
1.5 Review
Designing Security Specifications
2.1 Security Vulnerabilities
2.2 Security Strategies
2.3 Planning for Application Security
2.4 STRIDE
2.5 Security Policy
2.6 NET Security Features
2.7 Strategies
2.8 Review
Level 5
Completing the Planning Phase
1.1 Design Considerations
1.2 Availability & Reliability
1.3 Interoperability
1.4 Planning for Admin Features
1.5 Migration
1.6 Final Planning
1.7 Review
Lab - The Testing Role
Stabilizing and Deploying
2.1 Stabilization Phase
2.2 Roles and Responsibilities
2.3 Testing and Piloting for Stabilization
2.4 Tracking Bugs
2.5 Pilot
2.6 Deploying Phase
2.7 Review
Lab - The Release Management Role
2.8 Course Final Review
