70-480:Programming in HTML5 with JS and CSS3: Real Questions

Course details

This exam measures the ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.

Implement and Manipulate Document Structures and Objects (20-25%)

• Create the document structure by using HTML

  • Structure the UI by using semantic markup, including markup for search engines and screen readers, such as Section, Article, Nav, Header, Footer, and Aside; create a layout container in HTML

• Write code that interacts with UI controls

  • Programmatically add and modify HTML elements; implement media controls; implement HTML5 canvas and SVG graphics

• Apply styling to HTML elements programmatically

  • Change the location of an element; apply a transform; show and hide elements

• Implement HTML5 APIs

  • Implement storage APIs and the Geolocation API

• Establish the scope of objects and variables

  • Define the lifetime of variables; keep objects out of the global namespace; use the this keyword to reference an object that fired an event; scope variables locally and globally

• Create and implement objects and methods

  • Implement native objects; create custom objects and custom properties for native objects using prototypes and functions; inherit from an object; implement native methods and create custom methods

Preparation resources

• The developers guide to HTML5 canvas

• How to zoom and pan with SVG

Implement Program Flow (25-30%)

• Implement program flow

  • Iterate across collections and array items; manage program decisions by using switch statements, if/then, and operators; evaluate expressions

• Raise and handle an event

  • Handle common events exposed by DOM (OnBlur, OnFocus, OnClick); declare and handle bubbled events; handle an event by using an anonymous function

• Implement exception handling

  • Set and respond to error codes; throw an exception; request for null checks; implement try-catch-finally blocks

• Implement asynchronous programming

  • Receive messages from the HTML5 WebSocket API; use JQuery to make an AJAX call; wire up an event; implement a callback by using anonymous functions; handle the this pointer

• Create a web worker process

  • Start and stop a web worker; pass data to a web worker; configure timeouts and intervals on the web worker; register an event listener for the web worker; limitations of a web worker

Preparation resources

• Controlling program flow (JavaScript)

• Coding basic apps

• try...catch...finally statement (JavaScript)

Access and Secure Data (25-30%)

• Validate user input by using HTML5 elements

  • Choose the appropriate controls based on requirements; implement HTML input types and content attributes to collect user input

• Validate user input by using JavaScript

  • Evaluate a regular expression to validate the input format; validate that you are getting the right kind of data type by using built-in functions; prevent code injection

• Consume data

  • Consume JSON and XML data; retrieve data by using web services; load data or get data from other sources by using XMLHTTPRequest

• Serialize, deserialize, and transmit data

  • Handle binary data; handle text data such as JSON and XML; implement the JQuery serialize method; use Form.Submit; parse data; send data by using XMLHTTPRequest; sanitize input by using URI/form encoding

Preparation resources

• pattern attribute | pattern property

• Sandbox

• XMLHttpRequest object

Use CSS3 in Applications (25-30%)

• Style HTML text properties

  • Apply styles to text appearance; apply styles to text font, including WOFF, @font-face, size, and understudy fonts; apply styles to text alignment, spacing, and indentation; apply styles to text hyphenation; apply styles for a text drop shadow

• Style HTML box properties

  • Apply styles to alter appearance attributes, including size, borders, rounded corners, outline, padding, and margin; apply styles to alter graphic effects, including transparency, opacity, background image, gradients, shadow, and clipping; apply styles to establish and change an elements position

• Create a flexible content layout

  • Implement a layout using a flexible box model; implement a multi-column layout; implement a layout using position floating and exclusions; implement a layout using grid alignment; implement a layout using regions, grouping, and nesting

• Create an animated and adaptive UI

  • Animate objects by applying CSS transitions; apply 3-D and 2-D transformations; adjust UI based on media queries, including device adaptations for output formats, displays, and representations; hide or disable controls

• Find elements by using CSS selectors and JQuery

  • Choose the correct selector to reference an element; define element, style, and attribute selectors; find elements by using pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes

• Structure a CSS file by using CSS selectors

  • Reference elements correctly; implement inheritance; override inheritance by using !important; style an element based on pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes