Monday, February 20, 2006

Way for SJCP certification

There're many people trying to prepare themself for the SCJP. That's a good idea to put yourself to the test although the problem is where to find resources. If you've decided to make (and even pass) SCJP 5 you'll find that there is only limited number of mock exams, user experience and so on.
For this purpose here is my list of sites, tools and tutorials which are worth to take or just explore. Remember - every mock test you pass, everything you try to program, everything what you read - it counts ! Finally bear in mind - reading is NOT enough - you need hands on experience as most of the questions troubleshoot java code.
SCJP 5 is dedicated to Java 5 and basically is more defficult then SCJP 1.4.
First step you definitely must take is visiting Sun's Java certification site. Read carefully certification objectives and try to prepare only for objectives mentioned there - stay focused on a target and everything will be all right !
Next, read this PDF - it contains a lot of useful information on the test - but until you feel you're ready don't complete questions. Save them for last week before assesment and be noticed that many of questions indicates wrong number if correct answers so it's better to find correct answer by compiling given code.
There is a list of useful links to many mock exams on Javaranch Almost all of them are very easy even if their authors claim them to be tough !
A huge community is around Java black belt site. Worth to take some question specifically some from SCJP section. Note that these question are mantained by volunteer so the quality of questions (except for my question) differ from one another !
It's good to take some questions at Examulator. After your correct answer on question of the day, you can take comprehensive test of 60 more questions. But they're quite easy ...
And that's all folks. If you want to score high and willing to spend some money ($59) download exam simulator from Whizlab. Many questions are buggy but the difficulty level is very close to the real test ! It's good to make at least 80%.
So, let's get certified :-)

1 comment:

Sandeep Kunwar said...

Nice blog!!
I cleared SCJP 5 and compiled my observations with some resources links.
May help!!

http://sandeepkunwar.blogspot.com/