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Hi,

Anyone have any information (including website links) on the syllabus changes (if any) for this exam for .NET 4? I basically want to know if there will be change in the material covered.


Update to question: After Steven's excellent observation, let me ask it this way: What will the syllabus of the application foundation exam for .NET 4 be? Will it differ much from what is covered in the current exam? Will it be the same exam or different one. I don't know how it make it clearer

+1  A: 

The 70-536 exam is for .NET 2.0. So this exact exam will not change when .NET 4.0 is released.

Steven
+1  A: 

The old exams don't get updated.
Microsoft will have new exams for .net4, with new codes. There are already Beta exams that you can take for free if you can still find a seat before April 30th.
More will follow after the release of Visual Studio 2010.

http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/btl/b/weblog/archive/2010/03/17/register-for-visual-studio-2010-beta-exams.aspx

EDIT:

it has not yet been released, but there are several new namespaces such as System.Collections.Concurrent that might be covered.
Handling threading has been made easier using the System.Threading.Tasks Namespace. I suppose such important improvement will be included in the new Foundation exam. But it has not yet been released in beta, so we can only guess.

Stephane
I did not really want to know about the exam itself more about the material covered by any foundation exam for .NET 4.
Asher
+3  A: 

There will be no equivalent 70-536 exam on the .NET 4 exam tracks. Gerry O'Brien mentioned it on his blog http://blogs.msdn.com/gerryo/archive/2009/04/13/certification-update-and-small-survey.aspx

Niall Merrigan