Microsoft 70-486: Prevent and troubleshoot runtime issues

Exam Objectives

Troubleshoot performance, security, and errors; implement tracing, logging (including using attributes for logging), and debugging (including IntelliTrace); enforce conditions by using code contracts; enable and configure health monitoring (including Performance Monitor)

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications - Objective 4.1
Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 (OReilly) - Chapter 16 (Logging, tracing)
Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 (WROX) - Chapter 17 (ELMAH, Profiling)
Debugging, Tracing and Instrumentation in .NET and ASP.NET
MSDN - Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling
MSDN - Code Contracts
MSDN - ASP.NET Health Monitoring Overview
MSDN - MVC Music Store Application logging feature
MSDN - ASP.NET Performance Monitoring, and When to Alert Administrators
MSDN - Beginners Guild to Performance Profiling
MSDN - Tracing and Instrumenting Applications
MSDN - Using IntelliTrace
Code Contracts in C#

My post on Debug an Azure Application overlaps with this one somewhat.
My demo code for this objective on Github.

Microsoft 70-486: Plan and implement globalization and localization

Exam Objectives

Plan a localization strategy; create and apply resources to UI, including JavaScript resources; set cultures; create satellite resource assemblies

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications - Objective 3.2
MSDN - Creating Satellite Assemblies for Desktop Apps
Globalization, I18n and L10n in ASP.NET MVC 3, JavaScript and jQuery

Beginner's Tutorial on Globalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC

Resource Files and ASP.NET MVC Projects

ASP.NET MVC 5 Internationalization
MSDN - Globalization Step-by-Step

Wikipedia - Internationalization and localization
Simple ASP.Net MVC Globalization with Graceful Fallback

My example project on Github

Microsoft 70-486: Design an exception handling strategy

Exam Objectives

Handle exceptions across multiple layers, display custom error pages using global.asax or creating your own HTTPHandler or set web.config attributes, handle first chance exceptions

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications - Objective 4.2
Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 (OReilly) - Chapters 16 (Logging)
StackOverflow - Exception handling in n-tier applications?
MSDN - How to: Receive First-Chance Exception Notifications
MSDN - AppDomain.FirstChanceException Event
MSDN Social - Handling Errors in Multi-Tier Application - Advice
Exceptions in the rainforest

How to dismantle a poorly designed registration wall

Mr. SiteOwner... tear down this wall!

Sorry, couldn't resist.  Let's ignore the fact that I was five years old when Ronald Reagan spoke those words.  I hate forced registration.  If your content is free, make it free.  If I want to get your shitty emails, then I'll sign up, but this whole passive-aggressive "you can look if you give me your email address" bullshit just gets on my nerves.

Microsoft 70-486: Reduce network bandwidth

Exam Objectives

Bundle and minify scripts (CSS and JavaScript), compress and decompress data (using gzip/deflate; storage), plan a content delivery network (CDN) strategy (for example, Azure CDN)

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications - Objective 3.6
Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 (OReilly) - Chapter 13
Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 (WROX) - Chapter 8 (§ on Improving Ajax Performance).
(MSDN) How to: Compress and Extract Files
Using CDN for Azure
How to Enable Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Azure