exam-70-536

Revision Materals, other than book, for MCTS 70-536 Exam

Does anyone have any recommendations on revision materials for the MCTS 70-536 exam other than the monstrosity that is the official book? I am finding it very difficult to absorb the amount of information in the book in such a passive way (i.e just reading) it's not going in. My current approach has been to use the practise tests and m...

How can the AssemblyName class be used for existing Assemblies?

This is another exam related question. How can I use the AssemblyName class to represent an existing assembly that already exists on disk? I am talking about from the perspective of using the AppDomain's instance method .Load() that takes an AssemblyName object as a parameter. I know what MSDN has to say about what the .Load() method w...

Question About Abstract Classes?

URL: Link (1) According to this wesbite .. you cannot implement Abstract classes but derive from them. This makes sense and I have read this many times. Like an interface, you cannot implement an instance of an abstract class, however you can implement methods, fields, and properties in the abstract class that can be used by the ch...

Question about how the IsinRole(string name) method is used?

When supplying the string value for this windows principal method .... do you always to supply the Domain also or can you just supply the Group's name and thats abt it??? MSDN: //Get the role using the string value of the role. Console.WriteLine("{0}", myPrincipal.IsInRole("BUILTIN\\Administrators")); Console.WriteLine("{0}", myPrinci...

Generics and Exposing .Net Types For COM Consumers?

I remember seeing a question on my official MS 70-536 exam that talked about a simple class that was designed to be exposed for COM calling clients and etc. of all the members defined in the classes I chose the answer D. The one that used a generic. My question to you guys is this: If you were designing a .net custom type that was to be...

How much .NET Framework material will .NET 4.0 MCTS cert exam questions cover?

I am planning to get my MCTS for Visual Studio 2010. The list of exams I need along with descriptions and topics covered can be found here. There is now no equivalent of exam 70-536 for the new exams. I did some searching and although it is clear to me there is no replacement of the exam, it is not clear to me whether there are .NET fr...

Is this an error in the MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536)?

I am reading the MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft .NET Framework—Application Development Foundation, Second Edition eBook. Now I am finishing off the threading chapter (nr. 7). In the questions at the end of lesson 2, the is one question (nr. 2) that asks: "You are writing a method that can be run by multiple thread...