Thanks to JavaRanch forum, to all that contribute their notes, tips, free mock exams. Finally I made it.
I used total 5 months to prepare this exam. Following is how I get prepared:
Before I read any book, I went through the exam’s objective and took several Mock exams, like
Java prepare, Sun Guo-Giao’s first mock exam, Sun’s sample code , of course got pretty low score.
Then I spent one month to read Exam Cram by Bill Brogden, and Roseanne Zhang’s FAQ(it is pretty good. At the same time, I played JavaRanch Rules Roundup till I got 100%. I took a lot of mock exams from:
Maha Anna's home page except for Marcus Green’s.Jdiscuss free mock examJxam [*}J@Whiz,Jcertyfy, Jqplus(all trial version)
Dan Chisholm’s mock exam [*}Sun Guo-Qiao’s
From that I got to know what my weakness are, I spent another month to
reading “A Programmers guide to Java Certification" -- Khalid Mughal(It covers Declarations and Access Control, Language Fundamentals,Overloading, Overiding, JAVA.LANG.PACKAGE,Operator and Assignments very well , but I skip the code sample by coding myself) searching the Big Mouse Saloon for previous posts(like Threads, Garbege Collection) C)Sun’s API for Wrapper class, Math class.by Koray Guclu(it is clear and understanble) For Assertions,please read Sun’s doc, you need to “identify correct statements about the assertion mechanism”, “distinguish appropriate from inappropriate sue of assertions”, that appeared in my exam. Two weeks before I took the exam, I read Velmurugan’s note, and did Marcus’s exams got 70%-80%, Valentin’s got 55% (all exclude I/O and AWT), Dan Chisholm’s( I did twice), repeat necessary sections of the API.
Last two days, I reviewed all the mistakes and read
I’m a stay home mom who took java lesson a year ago and have no computer related working experience. If I can do it, you can do it too. My next step is SCWCD.
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