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ASP.NET Core Certified

ASP.NET Core Certified

Course outline

Module 1 · Request pipeline and hosting foundations

Minimal hosting and Program.cs
Middleware pipeline ordering
Dependency injection and service lifetimes
Options, configuration, and startup validation

Module 2 · Routing, controllers, and minimal APIs

Choosing MVC controllers vs minimal APIs
Route templates, constraints, and model binding
Action filters, route groups, and API versioning
HTTP semantics, endpoint contracts, and OpenAPI

Module 3 · Data access with EF Core

DbContext lifetime and LINQ query translation
Tracking, projection, and avoiding N+1 queries
Migrations, transactions, and concurrency
EF Core modeling and database invariants
Safe schema rollouts and backfills

Module 4 · Validation, DTOs, and error contracts

DTO projection and API boundaries
FluentValidation, DataAnnotations, and model state
ProblemDetails and consistent error contracts

Module 5 · Authentication and authorization

ASP.NET Core Identity, JWT, and cookie authentication
Policy-based and resource-based authorization
Claims design and multi-tenant scoping
Session and token lifecycle hardening

Module 6 · Security and production hardening

CORS, anti-forgery, and security headers
Rate limiting and abuse control
Secrets management and input sanitization
Data Protection and key management

Module 7 · Testing and observability

xUnit and domain logic testing
WebApplicationFactory integration tests
Structured logging, health checks, and tracing
Database, contract, and browser test boundaries
Telemetry, service objectives, and incident diagnosis

Module 8 · Performance, caching, and deployment

Response and output caching
Async patterns, cancellation, and background services
Containerization, deployment, and rollback
Resilience, retries, and idempotency
Background services and graceful shutdown

Choosing MVC controllers vs minimal APIs

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