The Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals Certification Study Group is a special interest group. The group focuses on study for the preparation to take the Microsoft certifications. It is free and open to the public.

The meetings are open to anyone who is interested in becoming certified as well as those who just desire to follow the course materials and learn.

The group chooses a particular exam preperation book(s) to study throughout the group season. Participants are encouraged to choose chapters from the book to present to the group at the meetings.

At the meeting we have general reviews, presentations, and question and answer sessions.

The meetings run from 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM. The group meets from fall through early summer and takes a break during the summer months.

The Certification Study Group meeting is held at the Northrop Grumman Square 1 Facility in Linthicum (please review the schedule of meetings to get directions for each one).

Note that this is a different Northrop Grumman Building than we have used for the past 3 years. Please check the directions.

To see a list of upcoming meetings for the groups, click here.

The CMAP Certification Study Group will be taking a deeper look into Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications this year. Our meetings will be on the Second and Fourth Thursdays of every month, from 7-9pm at the Northrop Grumman Square 1 Facility in Linthicum. (directions)

The study text for this year’s Certification Study Group will be Professional ASP.NET MVC 4 (Wrox Professional Guides). The book is available through many sources and is easily found by clikcing on the Amazon link to the right.

Experienced .NET and ASP.NET developers will find all the important information they need to build dynamic, data-driven websites with ASP.NET and the newest release of Microsoft's Model-View-Controller technology. Featuring step-by-step guidance and lots of code samples, this guide gets you started and moves all the way to advanced topics, using plenty of examples.

• Designed to give experienced .NET and ASP.NET programmers everything needed to work with the newest version of MVC technology
• Expert author team includes Microsoft ASP.NET MVC insiders as well as leaders of the programming community
• Covers controllers, views, models, forms and HTML helpers, data annotation and validation, membership, authorization, security, and routing
• Includes essential topics such as Ajax and jQuery, NuGet, dependency injection, unit testing, extending MVC, and Razor
• Includes additional real-world coverage requested by readers of the previous edition as well as a new case study example chapter

The Certification Study Group members communicate through a special message board. The message board is Yahoo Groups based and you must subscribe to the board to participate. To subscribe, simply click on the link below and choose to join the group when your browser opens to the Yahoo page.

Click to join the CMAP Certification Study Group #1 - ASP.NET MVC 4