Passed SCWCD with 89%

[Umakanth Godavarthy]

Hi ranchers,
I took the exam yesterday and passed with 89%. Thanks to all the posts on this forum, it helped me a lot in preparing the right way. It was a serious 1 month's preperation. I religiously followed HFSJ approach initially but after taking few mock exams felt that its not suifficient in all the topics. So read spec for Servlets, few topics of JSP spec and JSTL. But ofcourse if you've read HFSJ, the spec will be like icing on the cake.
The questions were not that easy especially on Design Patterns, EL, Web Container Model. So requires good preperation.
All the best for to every1 whos going to take the exam.
[ December 25, 2005: Message edited by: Umakanth Godavarthy ]

[fred rosenberger]

two points of business...

1) You have been asked in this AND this thread to change your name to meet our naming policy. If you won't comply, we'll have to lock your account. Please go
here and change your name.

2) While we're all glad you passed, this is not the correct forum to post your results. i'm moving it to the
Certification Results forum.
[ December 24, 2005: Message edited by: fred rosenberger ]

[Umakanth Godavarthy]

Hi Fred,
Apologies that I didn't notice the naming policy and that there is a seperate forum for posting results. Thanks for reminding me.
Actually i was bit busy in preparing for the last week so didn't notice that. :roll:

[mani kanth]

congracts umakanth am planning to give in next week am little scared too want to say fact am concentrating on only passing the exam . you told one month you prepared how many hours you studied and do you have experiance on web technology before itself..

tell me about jstl and custom tags am really worried about these topics..

[fred rosenberger]

Thanks for doing that. We do appreciate it.

And in case i didn't mention it, Congratulations on passing!!!

[Rizwan Mohammad]

Congrats Umakanth.
Enjoy.

[Vishnu Prakash]

CONGRATS

[Umakanth Godavarthy]

Thanks Fred, Mani, Rizwan and vishnu. Actually I registered in javaranch long time back while writing SCJP and lost touch with this forum due to commitments on my personal/professional front. There was almost a gap of 2 years. So I had to register again when i decided to write SCWCD. Now I'm hoping to write SCBCD with this same registration
Hi mani kanth, if you have HFSJ that is enough to pass the exam but if u're aspiring for high scores then reading spec is a must. For JSTL i recommend you to read spec, provided you've enough time. Also, i used to usually prepare for long hours (around 6 to 8 hrs) during weekends as my work keeps me very busy during weekdays.
-Thanks

[ December 25, 2005: Message edited by: Umakanth Godavarthy ]
[ December 25, 2005: Message edited by: Umakanth Godavarthy ]

[mani kanth]

hi umakanth can you mail me the spec what you suggested it wil be a great favour to me. my mail id is

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[Patrick Williams]

Hi Mani, All three specs are linked from Vishnu's signature.