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About This Course

This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to develop, debug and troubleshoot low-level Windows applications.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for systems programmers, device driver developers and other Win32 developers with at least 1 year of experience programming native applications for Windows.

Prerequites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Thorough understanding of Win32 programming (this is not a Win32 programming course).
• Working knowledge of the C programming language.
• Familiarity with the Windows operating system on a power-user level.
• Familiarity with operating systems concepts (multiprocessing, thread scheduling, virtual memory) is preferable but not a must.
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming paradigms is preferable but not a must.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Use debugging tools to troubleshoot user-mode and kernel-mode issues.
• Develop applications with a proper understanding of the Windows architecture.
• Appreciate the relationships between system components and their interactions with each other.
• Improve application performance by understanding how the system behaves internally.