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Microsoft 070-486 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications |
| Exam Number: | 70-486 |
| Exam Price: | $165 USD |
| Exam Duration: | 120 minutes |
| Passing Score: | 700 / 1000 |
| Related Certifications: | MCSD: Web Applications MCSA: Web Applications |
| Exam Format: | Scenario-based, Drag-and-drop, Multiple response, Multiple choice, Hot area |
| Certificate Validity Period: | Retired January 31, 2021; No longer active |
| Available Languages: | German, English, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), French, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified) |
| Real Exam Qty: | 40-60 |
| Recommended Training: | Exam Ref 70-486 Study Guide Microsoft Official Course 20486D |
| Exam Registration: | Pearson VUE (No longer accepting registrations) Microsoft Learn Exam Page |
| Sample Questions: | ![]() |
| Exam Way: | Proctored exam, delivered online or at authorized test centers (retired) |
| Pre Condition: | Minimum 3-5 years of experience developing ASP.NET MVC solutions; knowledge of Azure Web Apps; familiarity with Visual Studio |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/exams/70-486/ |
Microsoft 070-486 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Design the application architecture | 15-20% | - Implement WebSockets strategy - Design caching strategy - Design distributed architecture - Configure state management - Plan application layers - Design and implement Azure Web Apps lifecycle |
| Design and implement security | 15-20% | - Manage application security - Implement data security - Implement authorization - Protect against common web vulnerabilities - Implement authentication |
| Develop the user experience | 15-20% | - Design and implement routes - Control application behavior using MVC extensibility points - Implement model binding and serialization - Implement client-side scripting - Design and implement MVC controllers and actions |
| Design the user experience | 15-20% | - Design UI layout and structure - Plan for search engine optimization and accessibility - Plan and implement globalization and localization - Plan UI behavior - Design responsive UI |
| Troubleshoot and debug web applications | 20-25% | - Test web applications - Prevent and troubleshoot runtime issues - Analyze and optimize performance - Debug Azure applications - Design exception handling strategy |
| Design the build and deployment architecture | 10-15% | - Implement Azure deployment strategy - Design browser artifact build strategy - Implement on-premises deployment strategy - Design publishing strategy |
Microsoft Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications Questions, Answered by Experience
Microsoft Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications is an official Microsoft certification exam, listed under the code 070-486. Passing it earns the MCSA: Web Applications; Microsoft Specialist; MCSD: Web Applications certification at the Specialist / Associate level. It also ties into MCSA: Web Applications, MCSD: Web Applications. In an era of lifelong learning, this credential is one of the most efficient ways to prove your skills keep pace.
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The Microsoft Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications syllabus is organized into 6 domains, led by Design the application architecture (15-20%), Design the build and deployment architecture (10-15%), and Troubleshoot and debug web applications (20-25%). The complete breakdown is above on this page; it is the fastest way to learn where your limited preparation hours belong.
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Microsoft Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications Sample Questions:
You are developing an ASP.NET Core MVC web application.
You write a Gulp task to automatically minify and upload JavaScript CSS, and image files to Microsoft Azure CDN.
You need to ensure that the minification and upload tasks run automatically after every build in Microsoft Visual Studio Professional.
Which tool should you use?
- A. Visual Studio Batch Build dialog
- B. Visual Studio Build Continuous Delivery tool
- C. Azure Publish Dialog's Connected Services section
- D. Bower Package manager
- E. Task Runner Explorer After Build binding
References: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/01/06/task-runners-in-visual-studio-2015/
Correct Answer: E 🗳️
You are developing an ASP.NET MVC application that displays stock market information.
The stock market information updates frequently and must be displayed in real-time.
You need to eliminate unnecessary header data, minimize latency, and transmit data over a full-duplex connection.
What should you do?
- A. Instantiate a MessageChannel object on the client.
- B. Configure polling from the browser.
- C. Implement WebSockets protocol on the client and the server.
- D. Implement long-running HTTP requests.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
You are maintaining a load-balanced ASP.NET MVC web application. The load balancer uses the status endpoint to determine if the instance is healthy.
You monitor the application uptime by using multiple App Insight URL ping tests on the status endpoint. You track request latency for the application in Microsoft Azure Application Insight.
Your DevOps team reports that the application is behaving in unexpected ways. The latency of most requests is the same. Application Insights often falls back to sampling, and the sampling period is very high.
You need to ensure that the application provides the correct information.
How should you complete the code? To answer, drag the appropriate code segments to the correct locations. Each code segment may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
Correct Answer:

You are developing an ASP.NET MVC application in Visual Studio 2012. The application supports multiple cultures.
To set the culture, the application must use the AcceptLanguage header field value sent by the client browser.
You need to ensure that the application can set the culture.
You have the following markup in the web.config file:
Which markup segments should you include in Target 1, Target 2 and Target 3 to complete the markup? (To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.)
Correct Answer:

You have two Microsoft Azure subscriptions. One subscription emits logs. You plan to deploy audit tools to the other subscription to allow users to analyze logs that the first subscription emits.
You perform the following anions
* Configure resource diagnostic logs for non-compute resources in the Azure portal.
* Use Event Hubs metrics and set the log category to Operational Logs.
* Set a retention policy of seven days.
Users report that no log files are available
You need to ensure that log files are available for users.
- A. Set the tog category to Audit
- B. Combine all tools and objects into the same subscription.
- C. Change the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) access in both subscriptions to match.
- D. Store the logs in a Storage account
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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