I have been developing with C# for a while, and I decided to pass Exam 70-483 in order to validate my skill. In order to pass the exam, you should be able to perform the following skills:

Manage program flow (25–30%)

• Implement multithreading and asynchronous processing
• Manage multithreading
• Implement program flow
• Iterate across collection and array items; program decisions by using switch statements, if/then, and operators; evaluate expressions
• Create and implement events and callbacks
• Create event handlers; subscribe to and unsubscribe from events; use built-in delegate types to create events; create delegates; lambda expressions; anonymous methods
• Implement exception handling

Create and use types (25–30%)

• Create types
• Consume types
• Enforce encapsulation
• Create and implement a class hierarchy
• Find, execute, and create types at runtime by using reflection
• Manage the object life cycle
• Manipulate strings

Debug applications and implement security (25–30%)

• Validate application input
• Perform symmetric and asymmetric encryption
• Manage assemblies
• Debug an application
• Implement diagnostics in an application

Implement data access (25–30%)

• Perform I/O operations
• Consume data
• Query and manipulate data and objects by using LINQ
• Serialize and deserialize data
• Store data in and retrieve data from collections

You can check the details in the Exam 70–483 Official Website.

Resources

These are the books I used for passing the exam.

• Exam Ref 70-483 Programming in C#, 2nd Edition By Rob Miles
• C# 6.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference

The way I read these books was by reading them from cover to cover and highlight important things:

I also kept track of the notes somewhere else to review them after finishing the books: