Exam Guide For 1D0-532 CIW Web Developer

• CREDIT TOWARD CERTIFICATION
• PREREQUISITES
• EXAM INFORMATION
• SKILLS MEASURED
• EXAM RETAKE POLICY
• EXAM RETIREMENT

CREDIT TOWARD CERTIFICATION

CIW Web Developer 1D0-532 is a requirement for the following CIW or jCert job role certifications:

• CIW Certified Instructor - for those teaching CIW Web Developer content
• CIW Web Developer (jCert) certification
• jCert Solution Developer certification

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PREREQUISITES

Candidates must complete the following prerequisites prior to sitting the CIW Web Developer exam:

CIW Certification Agreement. This simple online agreement needs to be completed only once, but is necessary for the CIW Certification Department to ship CIW certificates (CIW Associate, CIW Professional, CIW Web Developer, CIW Security Analyst or Master CIW certificates) to candidates who pass the required CIW certification exam(s).

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EXAM INFORMATION

Students who have taken CIW courses are encouraged to continue their studies and apply their new skills before attempting the 1D0-532 CIW Web Developer exam. Skills taught in the CIW Web Developer courses are best reinforced with real-world experience.

The candidate is responsible for learning the content and achieving a passing score on the CIW Web Developer exam. Comments regarding any course delivery should be referred to the training company that delivered the course.

All 1D0-532 CIW Web Developer exams are subject to the following:

• Each delivery of the exam includes a random selection of 60 items.
• The examination period is 90 minutes.

To achieve a passing score on the 1D0-532 CIW Web Developer exam, candidates must:

• Correctly answer at least 33 of the 60 questions to achieve a total score of 55% or greater.

Each exam item offers from three to seven solutions or distracters. Exam candidates must select the best response(s) for each item. Items that require more than one correct response require all correct responses to be selected in order for the item to be scored as correct; partial credit is not given on these items.

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SKILLS MEASURED

Candidates taking the CIW Web Developer exam should know how to use development tools to assemble J2EE-centric Web solutions consisting of thin-client Web applications that interact with business services, databases and Web services. As a member of a development team, a Web Developer is responsible for implementing the front end of the system's architecture. Skills measured in the 1D0-532 exam include the following:

Writing Application Control Logic

• Create, declare and map a class that extends HttpServlet or a subclass of HttpServlet.
• Programmatically build URLs, including URL encoding, selecting the protocol and adding query string information.
• Query and extract all relevant information from the HttpServletRequest object.
• Delegate display from the servlet to the appropriate display agent.
• Record and manage state using the four scopes.
• Obtain and use initialization and context parameters.
• Identify the key elements and the role of the WAR file.
• Identify key multithreading issues and their effects on HttpServlet performance.
• Apply session management to situations such as session invalidation, and concurrent access to session resources.
• Ensure that a servlet enforces pre- and post-processing conditions as a controller, such as appropriate state, proper error codes, etc.
• Implement a filter to manipulate servlet requests and responses.
• Implement event listeners for a servlet.
• Create a serializable object and list when it may be used with respect to clustered and persistent sessions.

Writing Application Display Logic

• Build an HTML page using tables and forms.
• Write JSP code to maximize browser compatibility, such as including ALT attributes in tags, providing XML support, and retrieving the User-Agent header value.
• Use JavaScript (ECMA-262) for client-side processing, such as data validation and presentation enrichment.
• Embed an applet in HTML.
• Use local styles and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in an HTML page.
• Control page processing through the HTML header with settings such as enabling\disabling caching, meta information, pragma settings, etc.
• Access a JavaBean and its associated state in the correct scope using the useBean and other related action tags.
• Identify, construct and use valid JSP scripting elements such as expressions, scriptlets and declarations to display dynamic content.
• Identify and implement valid JSP directives, such as page, include, taglib, etc.
• Implement exception handling in JSP, including the use of JSP error pages.
• Declare and use a pre-existing custom tag library in a JSP file.
• Create a simple well-formed WML document utilizing WML-specific tags.
• Define the role of XSLT in enabling document conversion, such as HTML to WML.
• Identify the implications of displaying graphics on a wireless device.
• Identify the HTML elements that are sensitive to internationalization and localization.
• Match the XML-based JSP tags to the traditional (legacy) JSP tags.

Utilizing Business Services

• Locate an object such as a DataSource, EJB reference or connection factory in a JNDI namespace.
• Handle J2EE exceptions such as NamingException, JMS exceptions, resource exceptions, JDBCException, transaction and EJB-related exceptions.
• Obtain and release JDBC resources such as connections using JDBC 2.0-compliant data sources.
• Create and use JDBC statements including prepared and callable statements.
• Navigate and read a ResultSet using the JDBC 2.0 API.
• Use the J2EE Connector Architecture common client interface to send and extract data from a J2EE service.
• Obtain and use an EJBHome or EJBLocalHome interface.
• Obtain and use a remote or local interface for an enterprise bean.
• Distinguish between various forms of enterprise beans and the ways that each is used.
• Create and use JMS Sessions to send and receive messages.
• Identify and distinguish between the models in the JMS architecture, such as point-to-point and publish subscribe.
• Create a Message object using the correct type for the data being used.
• Connect to JavaMail to send and receive mail.

Exposing Application Components Using Web Services

• Read and write a file that conforms to the syntax of an XML application using one or more namespaces based on a DTD/XSD. Identify and resolve errors in a SOAP message.
• Modify settings in a WSDL file, including those that relate to implementation and binding.
• Compare and contrast the roles of UDDI, WSDL and SOAP as used by service providers, service consumers and service brokers.
• Identify the basic aspects of Web Services, such as components that can be used to implement them, differences between synchronous and asynchronous Web Services, etc.
• Write a client integrating a given Web Service using JAX-RPC and JAXM.

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EXAM RETAKE POLICY

The CIW Exam Retake Policy outlines the conditions under which a candidate may retake a CIW exam. A waiting period between retakes of a single certification exam maintains the security of the exam and strengthens the value of the CIW certification. Each CIW exam is defined by a unique exam ID (e.g., 1D0-410). A retake is any subsequent sitting of an exam with the same CIW exam ID by the same candidate at any authorized testing center.

In the event that a candidate passes a CIW exam, the candidate will not be allowed to retake that CIW exam. If the CIW exam objectives change, the exam ID changes to reflect the new exam version. Candidates who have passed an exam may sit a newer version of the exam that may have the same title but a different ID number.

In the event that a candidate fails a CIW exam on his or her first attempt, a 24-hour waiting period is required between the first and second sittings of that CIW exam. Candidates are required to wait for a period of no less than thirty (30) calendar days from the date of the previous sitting before any third or subsequent sitting of the same CIW exam.

Exams administered in any ways that do not comply with the CIW Exam Retake Policy shall be considered invalid and ineligible for a refund.

In the event that a candidate has violated this Exam Retake Policy, the candidate may be deemed ineligible to register for or schedule any CIW exam for a minimum period of twelve (12) months from the date of such determination.

In addition, any candidate determined to have violated the CIW Exam Retake Policy may be subject to any or all of the following:

• Denial of a specific CIW certification for a period of twelve (12) months from the date of such determination;
• Revocation of a specific CIW certification, if such certification had been previously granted to the candidate;
• Revocation of all CIW certifications previously granted to the candidate;
• Ineligibility to receive any CIW certification for a minimum of twelve (12) months from the date of such determination;
• Any other appropriate actions, including legal remedies, deemed necessary or appropriate to enforce the CIW Exam Retake Policy.

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EXAM RETIREMENT

No retirement date has been announced for exam 1D0- 532 CIW Web Developer.

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