I just completed the latest Microsoft Beta exam 71-316 and I now know I should have looked at the title of the exam, Development and Implementation of Windows-base Applications with C# and .NET Framework. This exam is jam packed with WinForm based questions, something I know little about. The exam I took covered areas such as security, configuration [gotta love those wonderful .config files], application packaging and deployment, Windows Form application development, debugging, setting up application menu and help systems, implementing custom controls, ADO.NET [both SqlClient and OleDb manager providers, connection and command objects, DataSet, DataView, data binding, and data editing], and finally XML [through various XML Readers and ADO.NET DataSet].

The questions were not as technically challenging as I had expected. In my opinion, if you have done WinForm development, you will do fine on this test. So how did I do? I suspect I did not do very well as I have done very little WinForm development using Visual Studio.NET and C#. Since this was a beta exam, my actual score will be sent to me in 8 weeks.

Pass or fail, taking the exam served my purpose of preparing for the actual release exam due out later this year. I now know what to expect from the exam and what I need to study. And my study list does not include the topics I expected today: reflection, delegation and event handling, web services, and web applications.

posted by Kirby Turner | 08-Apr-2002 1:14 PM | comments (0)

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