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General Details (The Real test is organized as follows)
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• Online test - Take place at Delphinux Systems Co., (BLP) Bangkok, Thailand
  Outside Thailand check BLP is your country. Resident outside Thailand welcome.
  Test is in English only!
  
• Maximum time allowed for test is 60 minutes
  
• Test will contain 60 questions (randomly selected)
  
• Minimum score required to pass is 80% (48 correct answers)
  
• All test question are multiple choice. Some questions are multiple choice/multiple answer type
  
• All test questions are equally weight and count equally toward final score.
  

Organization Of Questions (Questions are grouped into the following section of knowledge). Each section contains a large pool of questions. Some subject areas are considered to be advanced topics, for instance, XML or Internet programming. Questions in these areas test only FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE, which is necessary.

• Delphi Interface and Configuration
  
  • How to access and manipulate the Component Palette, Object Inspector,
  Form Designer and Project Manager.
  • Effective use of the Code Editor.
  • How to effectively change project options and understand their affect on
  the way Delphi manages your project.
  • How to configure and use the integrated debugger. Know the various
  debugger options and their effect on the debugging process.
• Delphi VCL/CLX
  
  • The general hierarchy of the VCL/CLX libraries.
  • Differences between the VCL and CLX libraries.
  • Understand the Exception object and it’s descendants.
  • How to override default methods.
  • Ways to raise an exception manually.
  • How to handle exceptions.
  • Exception propagation.
  • How to create and use a user-defined exception.
• Working with Components
  
  • Component ownership and containership.
  • Component interaction.
  • How to manipulate component properties.
  • Basic component methods and events
• Pascal/Object-Oriented Programming
  
  • Pascal syntax, reserved words and supported data types.
  • OOP concepts such as inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction and
  encapsulation.
  • Method overloading.
  • Invoking constructors and destructors.
  • Controlling application behavior.
• Database Concepts/Data Access Techniques
  
  • How to create a database application.
  • How the data access components in Delphi work together.
  • General requirements and usage of the data-aware components.
  • Methods of the data access components and a general knowledge of the
  sequence of these methods in the context of a transaction.
• dbExpress
  
  • The components available in dbExpress and a fundamental knowledge of
  how they work together.
  • The advantages and disadvantages of unidirectional datasets.
  • Differences between TSQLDataset, TSQLQuery, TSQLTable,
  TSQLStoredProc.
  • Use and configuration of the TSQLConnection component.
  • How to debug dbExpress applications.
• Writing DLLs and Packages
  
  • Requirements for writing effective DLLs.
  • Package fundamentals such as package structure.
  • Understand the contains and requires clauses of a package.
  • How to avoid circular references.
• Windows Concepts
  
  • General knowledge of the Windows API, including base constants
  • Windows message handling techniques
  • General knowledge of the Windows Registry
• Component Design Basics
  
  • How to create new or extend existing components.
  • The definition and use of getters and setters.
  • Creating properties and fields.
  • How to hide or expose component properties and methods.
  • Adding new components to the component palette or the object repository.
• Internet programmming Basics
  
  • The Internet components provided in Delphi and how they are used.
  • Types of web server applications.
  • How to debug server applications.
• Porting Delphi to Kylix
  
  • How Delphi and Kylix differ.
  • CLX equivalents of VCL components.
• XML Concepts
  
  • XML syntax.
  • What a Document Type Definition (DTD) is.
  • What a XML Schema Definition (XSD) is.
  • What a XML Data Reduced (XDR) is.
  • How the content and structure of an XML document is validated.
  • What components are used in XML applications.
  • Working with XML nodes.
  • The use of the Data Binding Wizard.
  • How to provide the necessary mappings to correlate an XML document
  and a data packet.

Training Course
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