Passed SCJD 357/400!!!!

[Daniel Simpson]

I received my score today after waiting 10 days!!

This report shows the total 1.4 SCJD points that could have been awarded in each section, and the actual number of points you were awarded. This is provided to give you per-section feedback on your strengths. The maximum possible score is 400; the minimum to pass is 320.
General Considerations (maximum = 100): 97
Documentation (maximum = 70): 69
O-O Design (maximum = 30): 27
GUI (maximum = 40): 40
Locking (maximum = 80): 44
Data store (maximum = 40): 40
Network server (maximum = 40): 40

I want to thank Dies, Andrew M., and the rest of you who provided input! This just made my day!

[Frans Janssen]

Congratulations, Daniel!

[dennis du]

What the matter about your locking?

[Daniel Simpson]

Originally posted by dennis du:
What the matter about your locking?

I think it may have been that I forgot to synchronize my create method in my DataManager class. I may not have provided a good enough solution for multi-threading in RMI. I realized my mistake after submitting. My worker threads do all the searching and booking, and a new thread is spawned for every action of book or search, so it would be impossible to ever tell if a client is trying to lock a record it has already locked or if they are trying to lock a record while holding a lock. That mistake is probably what cost me. But besides that, I am very pleased with my high scores in the other categories.

[Daniel Simpson]

Oh and for those who are wondering about the choices.txt question. My choices.txt was 7 pages long and I explained in detailed my significant choices. Also, it looks like the assessor liked my GUI layout! I was nervous they might not like it.

[Eric Chang]

Congratulations! I just submitted my assignment yesterday, and I've got to take the exam sometime in the near future (probably won't have the time for another few weeks).
Hopefully, my choices.txt holds up as I was so fed up with the assignment, that I went the short and sweet route and only had 2 1/2 pages of text.

[Andy Zhu]

Congratulation. How fast you got your grade. I have waited for 3 and half weeks now after taking the essay. Hope it come soon.

[Jared Chapman]

Good job Daniel! So what's next?

[Daniel Simpson]

Originally posted by Jared Chapman:
Good job Daniel! So what's next?

I have no interest in the SCEA until they update it. I'm just doing some freelance work for right now. Maybe I'll get into some EJB or something.

[Dieskun Koper]

Congratulations, Daniel!

[Anton Golovin]

Congratulatons!!!

[Andrew Monkhouse]

Congratulations Daniel

I have moved this topic to the Sun Certification Results forum.

Regards, Andrew

[Paula Decker]

Hi Daniel,

Congratulations! I was sure that you passed. Thanks for your helpful posts while working toward the SCJD.

I submitted mine a week ago and took the test the next day. I hope to be hearing something (hopefully positive) soon.

I noticed you said you don't have any interest in working on the SCJA until they update it. Why is that?

-Paula

[Daniel Simpson]

Originally posted by Paula Decker:
Hi Daniel,

Congratulations! I was sure that you passed. Thanks for your helpful posts while working toward the SCJD.

I submitted mine a week ago and took the test the next day. I hope to be hearing something (hopefully positive) soon.

I noticed you said you don't have any interest in working on the SCJA until they update it. Why is that?

-Paula

Paula! Good luck with your submission! I'm sure you'll pass! Which test did you have? B&S? URLybird? SCEA costs $500 plus for the three exams and currently it is only for version 1.3. There have been rumors about it getting updated in the near future, so it would be a bummer to learn all the skills needed such as EJB and JSP and take all of it, and then have the tests upgraded. So I'll wait then.

[Paula Decker]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the encouragement. I had B&S. I think I'll start studying for the architect certification. I have some time now. I hope if it changes it won't be too drastic. I wonder what the new topics for SCEA will be.

-Paula