Exam Prep Guide

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and labs. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:
Use system types, collections, and generics to help manage data
Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions
Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications
Enhance your application by adding graphics and images
Implement code access security, role-based security, and data encryption
Work with serialization and reflection techniques
Instrument your applications with logging and tracing
Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke

Practice Tests

Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

Your kit includes:
15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/10. Details inside.
Official self-paced study guide.
Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
450 practice and review questions.
Case scenarios and lab exercises.
Code samples on CD.
90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.
Fully searchable eBook.