In this video we will introduce the topics, prerequisites, & concepts for our Certification Exam Video Series around MCPD and specifically for Exam 70-519. This video will prepare us for the video series that lies ahead to help you achieve the MCTS 70-519 which is required for MCPD.  

In this video we will introduce fundamental concepts (as published on MSDN) around designing software architecture for your applications. We will also introduce some of the new UML modeling tools in Visual Studio 2010.  

In this video we will introduce talk about tiers and layers for software architecture. We will also discuss the various options that exist for State Management for your web applications.  

In this video we will introduce Master Pages, and discuss how they can be leveraged to help build a consistent look and feel for your Web applications. We will work with Master and Content pages in this video.  

In part 2 of this video we will explore nested master pages, working with master page event order, and how to decide at run time which master page to use based on browser. These techniques are important to comprehend to work effectively with master pages.