About Exam

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

Exam Objectives

• Manage data in a .NET Framework application by using .NET Framework system types. May include but is not limited to: Value types; Nullable type; Reference types; Attributes; Generic types; Exception classes; Boxing and UnBoxing ; TypeForwardedToAttribute class
• Manage a group of associated data in a .NET Framework application by using collections. May include but is not limited to: ArrayList class; Collection interfaces; Iterators; Hashtable class; CollectionBase class and ReadOnlyCollectionBase class; DictionaryBase class and DictionaryEntry class; Comparer class; Queue class; SortedList class; BitArray class; Stack class
• Improve type safety and application performance in a .NET Framework application by using generic collections. May include but is not limited to: Collection.Generic interfaces; Generic Dictionary; Generic Comparer class and Generic EqualityComparer class; Generic KeyValuePair structure; Generic List class, Generic List.Enumerator structure, and Generic SortedList class; Generic Queue class and Generic Queue.Enumerator structure; Generic SortedDictionary class; Generic LinkedList; Generic Stack class and Generic Stack.Enumerator structure
• Manage data in a .NET Framework application by using specialized collections. May include but is not limited to: Specialized String classes; Specialized Dictionary; Named collections; CollectionsUtil; BitVector32 structure and BitVector32.Section structure
• Implement .NET Framework interfaces to cause components to comply with standard contracts. May include but is not limited to: IComparable interface; IDisposable interface; IConvertible interface; ICloneable interface; IEquatable interface; IFormattable interface
• Control interactions between .NET Framework application components by using events and delegates. May include but is not limited to: Delegate class; EventArgs class; EventHandler delegates

• Implement, install, and control a service. May include but is not limited to: Inherit from ServiceBase class; ServiceController class and ServiceControllerPermission class; ServiceInstaller and ServiceProcessInstaller class; SessionChangeDescription structure and SessionChangeReason enumeration
• Develop multithreaded .NET applications. May include but is not limited to: Thread class; ThreadPool class; ThreadStart delegate, ParameterizedThreadStart delegate, and SynchronizationContext class; Timeout class, Timer class, TimerCallback delegate, WaitCallback delegate, WaitHandle class, and WaitOrTimerCallback delegate; ThreadExceptionEventArgs class and ThreadExceptionEventHanlder class; ThreadState enumeration and ThreadPriority enumeration; ReaderWriterLock class; AutoResetEvent class and ManualResetEvent class; IAsyncResult interface and ICancelableAsyncResult interface (refer System Namespace); EventWaitHandle class, RegisterWaitHandle class, SendOrPostCallback delegate and IOCompletionCallback delegate; Interlocked class, NativeOverlapped structure and Overlapped class; ExecutionContext class, HostExecutionContext class, HostExecutionContextManager class, and ContextCallback delegate; LockCookie structure, Monitor class, Mutex class, and Semaphore class
• Create a unit of isolation for common language runtime within a .NET Framework application by using application domains. May include but is not limited to: Create an application domain; Unload an application domain; Configure an application domain; Retrieve setup information from an application domain; Load assemblies into an application domain