Passed IBM 486 with 88%

[Lucky E. Santoso]

Passed IBM 486 today with 88%.

Perhaps it's just me, but I found some questions rather ambiguous.

Anyway, I'm grateful to Mikalai Zaikin
for providing very helpful quizzes ( http://java.boot.by/magnet-mocker/ ). Thanks Mikalai.

[Mikalai Zaikin]

Originally posted by Lucky E. Santoso:
Passed IBM 486 today with 88%.

...

Anyway, I'm grateful to Mikalai Zaikin
for providing very helpful quizzes ( http://java.boot.by/magnet-mocker/ ). Thanks Mikalai.

Congratulations !!!

Glad to know my Magnet Mocker OOAD Quizes were useful in 000-486 preparation !

regards,
MZ

[Hussain Fakhruddin]

Congrats gr8 work

[Prateesh Pandey]

Please give me some study tips like how long it takes?

[Lucky E. Santoso]

Thanks Mikalai and Hussain.

Prateesh, it took me about one and a half months to prepare for the exam.

But as background information, I should say that:
* Prior to the preparation period, I had been quite familiar with Fowler's (but not quite with Larman's), for I used Fowler's as one of the textbooks for my Intro to OOAD/UML classes (Yeah. I'm an instructor and actually quite embarrassed with the score ).
* I tried to study every topics in Larman's. Doing so was very time consuming and unnecessary, I think, if passing the exam had been the only goal. (I think Mikalai's quizzes could be used to assess which topics of Larman's are of higher importance with regard to the exam.)

Hope it's of some use. And good luck.

[Witt Lilavivat]

Congrat


Now I have preparing IBM 486 too.
Just wondering how many questions for this exam and how how much % to pass it.

Thanks
Witt

[Lucky E. Santoso]

You may check this page:
http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/test_index.shtml

Oh, and thanks.
[ February 03, 2006: Message edited by: Lucky E. Santoso ]

[Witt Lilavivat]

Thanks for advice.

[Ramasubbhu Allur Kuppusamy]

Congratulations...

[KISHORE NEGI]

hi all,
I am new to this forum..
well i had completed my SCJP1.4 certification with 77%(not much I know)..
i am interested in doing UML certification which is provided by rational rose(IBM 486)..
can any one pls tell me which books shud i refer and any other details regarding the exams.
is there only one exam for this.

if any body have the pdf's related to uml pls mail me on my id;- [e-mail]

Waiting for ur reply..
Kishore

[Arun Kumar Ilangovan]

Congrats...
Yesterday i took MK's IBM sample test and got only 55% and also i tried 3 mock exams of MK and got 76,70,75..

now can i successfully take the real exam

[Lucky E. Santoso]

Hi Kishore, details re IBM 486 (which, to the best of my knowledge, has nothing to do with IBM's Rational Rose) are provided here:
http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/edu486.shtml

Thanks Arun, and good luck.

[Steve Grant]

Hi Lucky,
I am planning to appear for IBM 486. I was looking for the following book in the market for studying UML.

Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process, 2nd Edition
Author: By Craig Larman


But in the market this book has come up with its 3rd Edition which also include UML 2.0. Is it ok to study this 3rd Edition book because I am finding it difficult to get the 2nd Edition version of the above book.

Please let me know about this.

Thanks,
Steve

[Mikalai Zaikin]

Hi Steve !

Not sure about 3rd edition.

But for 2nd edition you may take a look here

regards,
MZ