A few days ago, I posted
some links for study guides and links for the
70-536 exam. Well, it worked nicely for me as I passed with a
982! I know I missed one question on COM Interop because the way they were talking about returning an HRESULT to a COM caller is not the way I would do it.
I chose the C# version since I've done most of my work in C# so far with Visual Studio 2005, although I could have done the C++ version just as easily. I already have the MCSD and the MCDBA, but I thought I'd try to take most of the exams in the new one instead of just waiting for an upgrade exam.
Anyhow, the following areas should be concentrated on at least from my perspective:
* Streams, streams streams, including GZipStream, SslStream, DeflateStream, MemoryStream
* Encryption and Decryption using MD5, DES, RSA and SHA1
* Generics and Type-Safe Collections
* Threading and Delegates
* Authentication and Authorization using IPrincipal and IIdentity
* AppDomains - dynamic assembly loading and process isolation
* Object serialization in both XML and binary
* Application Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
* IO - Isolated Storage and FileStream security
* COM Interop and P/Invoke
* Security Actions and Permissions (Assert, Demand, LinkDemand, etc)
* Globailization - Culture and Region with string comparing and data formatting
I think that's a pretty good list of what is covered. The list I gave in the previous post should prepare you nicely for it. It's also a good idea to run through MSDN samples of each class listed in the previous post as it gives you the fundamentals needed. Anything else I missed?