Know how to generate personal scurity certificate using makecert.exe. This tool has several option but this tool is very easy to use.

Know how to open The Visual Studio Developer command promp easily in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.

Know what are the tools you can use to generate personal security certificates with public/private keys on Windows.

Know about digital certificates, their format and private keys. Digital certificates are distributed PKIX-compliant public key infrastructures support industry standard X.509 version 3 certificates

Understanding what is public-key cryptography, what are public-private key pair and their purpose.

With help of Visual Studio Intellisense option “Implement Abstract Class” you can generate all abstract methods Skeleton to increase you productivity.