Visual FoxPro certification exams study guide by Winegarden, Cindy, Delay, Evan instant download

Visual FoxPro certification exams study guide by Winegarden, Cindy, Delay, Evan instant download

1 online resource (187 pages), Print version record, Dedication -- List of Chapters -- Our Contract with You, The Reader -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- How to Download the Files -- Introduction -- Who we are -- How we started -- Who you are -- You can do this! -- Why get certified? -- Certification benefits -- Transcript -- Wallet card, lapel pin -- Logo -- Other goodies -- Leveraging your preparation time -- Study in groups -- Know what Microsoft wants -- Know what you do best -- Practice -- Overcoming obstacles, Scheduling and taking the examsUse the pencil! -- Certification requirements -- MCSD requirements -- Exams 70-155 and 70-156 -- Exam 70-100 -- Exam retirement -- Further reading -- Testing centers -- Exam demos -- Chapter 1 Developing the Conceptual and Logical Design -- Conceptual design -- Logical design -- Further reading -- Design -- Object-oriented design -- Chapter 2 Developing a Logical Data Model -- Normalization rules -- First Normal Form (1NF) -- Second Normal Form (2NF) -- Third Normal Form (3NF) -- Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF), Fourth Normal Form (4NF)Fifth Normal Form (5NF) -- The primary key -- Relationships -- One-to-one relationships -- One-to-many relationships -- Many-to-many relationships -- Foreign keys -- Referential integrity -- Business rules, data integrity and the data model -- Denormalization -- Denormalization for reporting -- Denormalization for data warehousing -- Denormalization for performance -- Further reading -- Chapter 3 Deriving the Physical Design -- Design considerations -- Performance -- Maintainability -- Extensibility -- Availability, An example with COMClass libraries -- Inheritance -- Encapsulation -- Containership -- Delegation -- Polymorphism -- Class libraries -- Designing an interface for data access -- Designing the properties and methods of components -- Designing the presentation tier -- Further reading -- Chapter 4 Establishing the Development Environment --…