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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

Tracking, projection, and avoiding N+1 queries

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