MS Certification 70-536: initial practice test results
Took the first practice test without really studying… Holy crap I’m dumb. I’m not going to say how dumb but below are the areas I have to study in priority.
1.) Services, Threading and Application Domains: What??!!? I spent over a year building and maintaining a multithreaded windows service, I thought I would do better on this section.
2.) Serialization: Again, I thought I would do better on this because I’ve used it so much, some of the wording of the questions were tricky and I just screwed up.
3.) Reflection, Interop and mailing: Wow, anotherone I thought I was prepared for because I’ve worked a lot with reflection and running old VB6 Com+ objects using dot net.
4.) Code Security (CAS): I thought I’d do a lot worse on this because I’ve never used it before, but I did read a chapter about it last week so it’s in my head already.
5.) Configuration, installation and Management: Config file settings are pretty obvious.
6.) Globalization / Text : I would say text and string manipulations are 70% of a programmers job especially in the web world.
7.) Core : I’d be embarrassed if I didn’t nail the dot net fundamentals