Assess your readiness for Exam 70-488, Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Core Solutions, and quickly identify where you need to focus and practice. This practical, streamlined guide walks readers through each exam objective, providing "need to know" checklists, review questions, exam tips, and links to further study - all designed to help evaluate and bolster exam candidates' preparation. Readers will discover considerations for planning and designing SharePoint sites, implementing authorization and authentication, accessing and managing data, implementing SharePoint solutions, implementing the user experience and information architecture, creating business processes, and creating SharePoint apps. Candidates for this exam are typically technical leads with at least four years of SharePoint and web development experience. The candidates are responsible for designing custom code for projects that are deployed to or interact with SharePoint environments. The minimally qualified candidate typically has experience: selecting an appropriate approach and building customizations in SharePoint planning and implementing solution packaging, deployment, and upgrading identifying SharePoint data and content structures for customizations performing diagnostics and debugging planning and designing applications for scalability and performance identifying and mitigating performance issues of customizations understanding authentication and authorization working with Windows PowerShell The typical candidate usually also has familiarity with SharePoint capabilities and with Online Services such as Windows Azure and SharePoint Online as well as developing Office client apps.
