70-536 Exam and Practice Exams

Hi,

Ive got my 70-536 exam coming up next week and im slightly concerned as to
the type of questions that will appear on the exam...

Ive paid for a set of Transcender practice exams and was a bit shocked to
see a couple of questions that:
- require me to know the order of parameters for a method
- used made-up class and method names

Can these come up on the real exam or have Transcender got some dodgy
practice questions here?

Im also finding these practice exams quite difficult - im getting around 70%
- and starting to panic. Are they known to be more difficult than other
practice exams?

Matt

Yes, the exam tests you not just on semantics, but also syntax. I'd suggest
taking the Transcender tests until you consistently score 100% or very close
to it. Also, when you take the tests, ensure that you pay attention to why
the other answers are wrong. This actually teaches you a lot, rather than
just focusing on what is right.

Also, be sure to take the tests on the CD that comes with the MS exam
certification book for 536 - I am assuming you have this as well. The two
will together give you the confidence with the exam.

Good luck.

Ashwin

"Matt" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ive got my 70-536 exam coming up next week and im slightly concerned as to
> the type of questions that will appear on the exam...
>
> Ive paid for a set of Transcender practice exams and was a bit shocked to
> see a couple of questions that:
> - require me to know the order of parameters for a method
> - used made-up class and method names
>
> Can these come up on the real exam or have Transcender got some dodgy
> practice questions here?
>
> Im also finding these practice exams quite difficult - im getting around 70%
> - and starting to panic. Are they known to be more difficult than other
> practice exams?

Ashwin

"Ashwin" <> schreef

> Yes, the exam tests you not just on semantics, but also syntax.

For this exam, and 70-528 you should know either C# or VB. Now to what
extence are for example the OO principles of C# tested? Should you know C#
to read the questions and answers? Or should you know inheritance and for
example the order in constructors work in the the inheritance tree when a
new object is created and which public data fields are used when the runtime
type of a class is a subclass of his original declaration, et cetera??

Marc

Hi Marc,

I am not sure I completely understand your question, but hopefully this will
answer it...

The exam tests you on .NET material rather than C# itself. The language
elements of C# are not tested, as far as I know - of course I don't represent
the testing panel, so this is just my opinion. For example, you may be given
a segment of code that shows how to connect to a database using a
DbConnection subclass, all the way down to getting a reader and reading from
it. The code would have a using statement to create the DbConnection (which
as you know causes the call to Dispose() or Close()). The questions on this
segment of code assume that you know the using statement and what it does, so
it won't ask you about that. What it will ask you is what the segment of code
itself does, and it might ask you what order the statements might have to be
in - or what line of code is missing.

In other words, you aren't tested on C#. Examples of this:
* What the using statement is, or
* What is the difference between a cast and the AS keyword or
* What the syntax is on an indexer.

You will be instead tested on .NET aspects such as
* A chunk of code written with C# and what it does
* How many bytes within a particular system type (like double).
* The order of parameters for creating an event log

If you notice, the latter set of questions do not specifically pertain to
the language, but the application of the language.

Hope that answers it. The examples I have given above are not the ones I got
in my own exam, so I am not (I don't think) violating the confidentiality
agreement.

Ashwin

"Marc" wrote:

>
> "Ashwin" <> schreef
>
> > Yes, the exam tests you not just on semantics, but also syntax.
>
> For this exam, and 70-528 you should know either C# or VB. Now to what
> extence are for example the OO principles of C# tested? Should you know C#
> to read the questions and answers? Or should you know inheritance and for
> example the order in constructors work in the the inheritance tree when a
> new object is created and which public data fields are used when the runtime
> type of a class is a subclass of his original declaration, et cetera??
>
>
>

Ashwin

"Ashwin" <> schreef

> Hope that answers it.

Yes it does.

I just passed another exam on Java, the language only. That's a total
different track. I am doing ASP.NET and JSP in my present job. The java exam
is called Sun Certified Java Programmer and tests you on the most geeky
little things in Java. I already thought and hoped it would not be like thát
exam, I happy you confirm it. Thanks!

Marc