Exam Guide For 1D0-430 CIW Application Developer
- Credit Toward Certification
- Prerequisites
- Exam Information
- Skills Measured
- Exam Preparation Tools
- Exam Retake Policy
- Exam Retirement
CREDIT TOWARD CERTIFICATION
CIW Application Developer 1D0-430 is a requirement for the following CIW certifications:
- CIW Certified Instructor - for those teaching CIW Application Developer content
- Master CIW Enterprise Developer
CIW Associates who pass the CIW Application Developer exam (or any other CIW job-role series exam) also earn the following CIW certification:
- CIW Professional
PREREQUISITES
Candidates must complete the following prerequisites prior to sitting the CIW Application Developer exam:
- CIW Certification Agreement. This simple online agreement needs to be completed only once, but is necessary for CIW Certification Central to ship CIW certificates (CIW Associate, CIW Professional or Master CIW certificates) to candidates who pass the required CIW certification exam(s).
- CIW Associate certificate. Passing the CIW Foundations exam 1D0-410 is required for those candidates seeking CIW Professional and Master CIW Enterprise Developer certifications.
- It is recommended, but not required, that students seeking Master CIW Enterprise Developer status take (and pass) the CIW Web Languages exams (JavaScript Fundamentals and Perl Fundamentals) prior to taking the CIW Application Developer exam.
EXAM INFORMATION
Students who have taken CIW courses are encouraged to continue their studies and apply their new skills before attempting the 1D0-430 Application Developer exam. Skills taught in the CIW Application 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 Application Developer exam. Comments regarding course delivery should be referred to the training company that delivered the course.
All 1D0-430 Application Developer exams are subject to the following:
- Each delivery of the exam includes 60 items, appearing randomly in two modules.
- The examination period is 75 minutes.
| Examination Version | Date Published | Exam Notes |
| CIW Application Developer 1D0-430 | October 2000 | 60 items randomly presented in two modules |
To achieve a passing score on the exam, candidates must:
- Correctly answer at least 45 of the 60 questions to achieve a total score of 75% or greater,
AND - Correctly answer at least 70% of the questions in each individual module.
| Module | Number of Items |
| Fundamentals of CGI Using Perl | 30 |
| Dynamic Server Pages | 30 |
| Total Items | 60 |
Each exam item offers four solutions or distracters; exam candidates select the best response for each item.
SKILLS MEASURED
A CIW Application Developer creates interactive Web pages using client-side and server-side Web applications; accesses relational database systems from Web applications; implements applications using component technology; and creates parameters for environment variables. Skills measured in the 1D0-430 exam include but are not limited to the following:
- Plan and implement application development projects.
- Identify and use various server-side development environments (Perl, ASP, PHP, SSJS, JSP).
- Identify and use various development platforms (UNIX, Windows 2000, and Macintosh).
- Identify and use various communication protocols (HTTP and others).
- Perform server-side and client-side scripting.
- Define the application development process.
- Define CGI and its significance to the World Wide Web.
- Use the HTTP GET and POST request methods.
- Define Perl and its distinct benefits to CGI programming.
- Write and use Perl scripts and Perl elements.
- Incorporate HTML into Perl.
- Define PHP, and identify platforms and Web servers that support it.
- Define PHP page structure and PHP string functions
- Identify and use variables, data types, and variable functions.
- Identify and use operators, conditional statements, loops, arrays, functions and pattern matching.
- Define database basics, including database structure, schemas and SQL.
- Use the MySQL database server, and create databases and database tables using MySQL and PHP.
- Identify errors and perform error handling.
- Identify PHP security issues, including safe mode.
- Identify and use ASP files and ASP-based applications, including the Web servers that support ASP applications.
- Define virtual directories, including benefits to server script developers.
- Define ODBC, OLE DB, ADO, Global.asa file, and the structure of ASP technology.
- ASP intrinsic objects, including properties and methods of ASP components.
- Insert, update and delete records in a database using ASP and ADO.
- Construct databases, including data integrity.
- Define and use encryption, including the different protocols used in applying encryption to various situations.
EXAM PREPARATION TOOLS
Official Curriculum
Instructor-Led Training (through CIW Authorized Training Partners only)
Practice Exams
CIW does not endorse Web sites that list study guides or practice questions for CIW exams. All CIW examinations are copyrighted material. To maintain the security and value of our program, we reserve the right to decertify and/or prohibit from examinations any individuals who republish or distribute our copyrighted certification exam questions.
Third-Party Books, Web Sites, or Newsgroups
The following resources are provided as a supplement to your studies, and will reinforce the skills and concepts learned with CIW official Application Developer course materials.
- Brown, Martin C., Perl: The Complete Reference. Berkeley, CA: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1999
- Wall, Larry, Tom Christiansen, and Randal L. Schwartz. Programming Perl. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1996
- Castagnetto, Jesus with Harish Rawat, Sascha Schumann, Chris Scollo, and Deepak Veliath. Professional PHP Programming. Birmingham, UK: Wrox Press Ltd., 1999.
- Federov, Alex with Brian Francis, Daniel Maharry, David Sussman, and Chris Ullman. ASP 2.0 Programmer's Reference. Birmingham, UK: Wrox Press Ltd., 1998.
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., IDO-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.
EXAM RETIREMENT
No retirement date has been announced for exam 1D0-430.
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