I studied with the K&B book, read it twice (i took notes of the important things with the second read), i made the self-tests of the book once, i did the following mocks:
Dan Chisholm (just this one)Marcus GreenSun SCJP Free questionsthe masterexam that comes on the CD (with the K&B book) And this all on just 10 days.
I passed with 85% (52 questions out of 61 correct).
This are my points on the different topics:
- Declarations and access control = 100%
- Flow Control, Assertions and Exceptions = 66%
- Garbage Collection = 100%
- Language Fundamentals = 100%
- Operators and assignments = 75%
- Overloading, overriding, runtime type and object orientation = 100%
- Threads = 50%
- Fundamental java.lang Classes = 100%
- Collections Framework = 100%
One good advise: when it looks much too easy, look for compilation errors or runtime exceptions. Only go for the easiest answer if you are 5 times 100% sure!
The
thread questions are the hardest on the exam, certainly if you are not familiar with them (like me). Concerning the time: i did it in 1 hour and 15 minutes, so no time pressure at all
So thanks to everybody that helped direct and indirect, and special thanks to K&B for their excellent book. But one very little critic: in the book are deamon-threads never mentioned (or i didn't read it
) and had such a question on the exam. But just keep up the good work
[ October 24, 2005: Message edited by: Roel De Nijs ]
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