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Based on research, there are 3 ways to brand the application pages. Backup all your layouts folder file into another folder (i.e. LayoutsBackup). Change the files (i.e. application.master) in the layouts folder to satisfy your branding. [This is recommeded by Microsoft] Create a brand new layouts folder (i.e. customLayouts) and change the IIS site settings for the SharePoint web application to point to the new customLayouts folder. Use a HttpModule to change the application page master page reference. For more details, refer here . Below is a simple HTTP Module that does it using System.Web; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using System.Web.UI; namespace Aymhi.MOSS.HttpModules { public class SharePointAppPageMasterPageModule : IHttpModule { public void Dispose() { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public void Init(HttpApplication context) { context.PreRequestHandlerExecute += new EventHandler(context_PreRequestHand...

Good starting resources for preparing SharePoint 2010 certification http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=0cd1a63d%2D183c%2D4fc2%2D8320%2Dba5369008acb&ID=323 https://partner.microsoft.com/40121315 http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/About-the-SharePoint-2010-certifications.aspx http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2010/02/sharepoint-certification.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TechTrainingNotes+%28Mike+Smith%27s+Tech+Training+Notes%29 https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/sharepoint.aspx#2010sec1 http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/