I have just passed SCBCD 5 with 98% today. I feel a little disappointed because I have study so hard with a hope to get 80%. I have to study at level 10 and exam is at level 7->8.
The books I studied were
+ Spec EJB3 (JPA and core). This is very very excite book, although it is difficult to study. I have to read about 5 times. From the third time I feel rather understand. I read about 350 pages from these 2 book (200 from core and 150 from JPA)
+ Pro EJB3 JPA this is the very good, precise book, excellent JPA book.
+ EJB3 In Action (some places different from JPA spec (allow define public instance state in entity))
+ MasteringEJB4.pdf (some examples of source code still use pre final spec (@Entity(access = AccessType.FIELD))). This is very good and useful book.
+ OReilly Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 5th Edition. This is very good book for general knowledge but not good for very detail knowledge like spec
+ JavaEETutorial from Sun. This tutorial is very detail especially security examples
+ Apress Beginning EJB3 Application Development. This book is excellent for guiding deploy application.
+ Tutorial made by Mikalai Zaikin (
http://java.boot.by/scbcd5-guide/), summary from spec.
Mock
test:
+ Enthuware
+ Whizlabs
+ TopCerts (455 Questions). Very excellent but not explain. Many question like real exam. Answers are very exactly
+ Sample exam of Sun (30Q)
Specification
http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr220/index.html Mastering EJB3
http://www.theserverside.com/tt/books/wiley/masteringEJB3/index.tss Java EE Tutorial from Sun
http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/JavaEETutorial.pdf http://java.sun.com/javaee/reference/tutorials/ Practise test from Sun
http://www.sun.com/training/certification/resources/epractice.html http://www.sun.com/training/certification/assessment/index.jsp Free trial mock test
http://www.enthuware.com/ejbplus/ http://www.whizlabs.com/scbcd/scbcd-details.html http://www.topcerts.com/SCBCD-certification-training.htm