Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

Objective 1.5: Design a caching strategy

Caching is a basic application development strategy to help improve performance. You have likely found that a significant amount of time is spent accessing data. Although it might only be milliseconds at a time, it adds up and can have a dramatic impact on overall performance. Caching is a mechanism for storing frequently used information and within high-speed memory. This seemingly small change will reduce access time and increase response time.

As in managing state, there are several places in which you can implement data caching, and each has different ramifications regarding ease of implementation, flexibility, and performance. For example, relatively static data can be marked so that multiple requests ...