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I believe all Microsoft exams are generated randomly from a pool of questions, so your experience when taking the exam might be entirely different than mine. When I took the test, June 2006, there were no prep books so I just looked at the list of topics listed in Microsoft's website, read about them in the MSDN Help Library, and then played with them a bit in Visual Studio 2005.

This is what I was evaluated on:

  • Tons of Stream manipulation questions (with syntax!)
    • BufferedStream
    • MemoryStreams
    • SslStream
    • GZipStream
    • DeflateStream
  • Tons of System.Security questions
    • Role-based security
    • PrincipalPermissions
    • NTAccount
    • WindowsIdentity
    • GenericIdentity
  • Many System.Security.Cryptography questions. Specially about the DES and SHA1 classes
  • Customized Serialization and Deserialization
  • Several threading questions
  • Some questions about the Process class and the GetProcesses method
  • Executing a method in a class using Reflection
  • Assigning property values of an object from a Custom Configuration Section
  • Only one question about generics!