I’m currently studying for the MCTS certification and I have to start with the 70-536 exam. To be honest, learning isn’t much fun. I read through the book during the two weeks of my vacation, expecting to be done. And indeed, the concepts you learn are not very difficult. However, when I started doing some practice questions it became apparent that just learning the concepts is not enough. You have to learn the APIs pretty much by heart. Questions revolve around knowing whether a method accepts a certain argument or not.
This is a problem for me because learning things by heart is something I really suck at. So to make it more manageable I’ve started to reread the book again and this time I take notes of everything that is not plain obvious. Of course, “plain obvious” is a very subjective thing. Nevertheless, these notes may be useful to others so I’m sharing them via Google Documents:
- 70-536 notes – Developing applications that use system types and collections
- 70-536 notes – Implementing service processes, threading, and application domains
- 70-536 notes – Embedding configuration, diagnostic, management, and installation features into a .NET Framework application
- 70-536 notes – Implementing serialization and input output functionality in a .NET Framework application
- 70-536 notes – Improving the security of .NET Framework applications by using the .NET Framework security features
- 70-536 notes – Implementing interoperability, reflection, and mailing functionality in a .NET Framework application
- 70-536 notes – Implementing globalization, drawing, and text manipulation functionality in a .NET Framework application
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