Many many congrats Hussain
I also passed this exam on 1 september and got 76 %
Though, I feel that could have achieved above much better score quite easily, had I been prepared well, but I would to provide some suggestions to those who are planning to take IBM 486 exam:
> Read Applying UML &
Patterns(Larman) book thoroughly.. in a sequence.. and try to grasp fully what the author wants to express.
> After you are finished with this book, go through Fowler's UML Distilled, an excellent book.. quite useful in the sense that it is To-the-point, but, at some points, author assumes that reader already has got some UML & design knowlege.
> Try to practice on Whizlab simulator exams as much a possible.
In fact, some of the questions in exam are quite straightforward but most of them demand thinking and analysis, so be very careful to those questions which are scenario based. I think, to answer such questions, one needs to develop deep understanding of Object Oriented analysis & design concepts... Larman's Applying UML & Patterns is an excellent source of building the Object Oriented Analysis & design sense, if this book is read in a proper sequence.
Thanx