Examen Microsoft .NET Framework Application Development Foundation (70-536)

Exam topics covered

The following list includes the topic areas covered on this exam. The percentage indicates the portion of the exam that addresses a particular skill.

• Developing applications that use system types and collections (15 percent)
• Implementing service processes, threading, and application domains in a .NET Framework application (11 percent)
• Embedding configuration, diagnostic, management, and installation features into a .NET Framework application (14 percent)
• Implementing serialization and input/output functionality in a .NET Framework application (18 percent)
• Improving the security of the .NET Framework applications by using the .NET Framework 2.0 security features (20 percent)
• Implementing interoperability, reflection, and mailing functionality in a .NET Framework application (11 percent)
• Implementing globalization, drawing, and text manipulation functionality in a .NET Framework application (11 percent)

Audience profile

Candidates for this exam work on a team in a medium or large development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Developer or Visual Studio 2005. Candidates should have at least two to three years of experience developing Web-based, Microsoft Windows-based, or distributed applications by using the .NET Framework 1.0, the .NET Framework 1.1, and the .NET Framework 2.0. Candidates should have a working knowledge of Visual Studio 2005.

Code languages

When the exam begins, you can choose the programming language in which the code segments will appear. The available code languages for this exam are:

• Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
• Microsoft Visual C# 2005
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2005