Passed, not a great score, but heh, it feels good to have passed.
My take of the exam for those who have not taken it yet-
1. The
test tested knowledge, the questions were not the same as the mocks, some of the concepts I was tested on were not even found in the mocks I did - I used the Marcus Green and JQPlus exams to study (and others). I found myself thinking that I was so glad I knew some
Java because if I relied on my memory of the mock questions I would not have passed.
2. The code samples are long, many questions had 20 lines of code to read. I thought it was helpful to look at the answers first, so you can rule out those pesky questions that have syntax errors (like the package and import statement reversed).
3. I was not sure whether or not to include quotes on my write-in answers. I had read a discussion of this I think on MahaAnna's site, but check. For example, what is the value of
String s? Is it abc or "abc"? That may have cost me.
4. You hear
alot that the test is not as hard as JQPlus, but my score was very close to the average score I got when taking the last few JQPlus exams for the first time.