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Passed Part I

 
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I passed part I with 83%.
The exam is not very easy. There were 8-10 questions with 6 options. Sometimes difficult to choose from the options. One of the options was JMX.
The following are the details :
EJB 8-10 questions most of them on life cycle, when to use stateless and stateless session and when to use entity. For example there were scenario questions that required to store the reference. This scenario expected the option to be stateful bean. I did not get any questions on Isolation levels. There was a question on Transaction attributes.
UML About 4 questions on navigability etc.
Messaging 4 questions. Again concepts.
Remember for some questions the answer itself was JMS
I18n : 2 questions
Security 4 questions
There were various application scenario. I felt Java Blue prints and also Java 2 Network Security helped to some extent. There were questions on firewall being between a applet and terminal server. Remember which protocol on what port. Already mentioned some posts. Like the questions just say that the server listens on 443 and it is assumed we know which service listens at port 443. 1 question was on the features of firewall.
EJB and legacy connectivity - 2 - 3 questions.
Design patterns 3 questions. Reading the definitions from GOF should do.
Also I had like to mention John Wetherbie's notes helped me for a question on Horizontal Scalability and clustering. And of course I give full credit for this forum for getting SCJP2 and SCEA
Last but not the least one is required to read very fast. And also the following timing schedule helped me in keeping up with the time.
10 questions - 15 minutes
20 questions - 30 minutes
30 questions - 45 minutes
40 questions - 60 minutes
50 (48) - 75 minutes

 
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Good to hear that!
 
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Congrats! Madhu
What's Next ....
83 is a Good %age .
Throw some light on LoadBalancing & Clustring.
& Also EJB Questions.
Best wishes for Par II & III.
regards
Bidyut
[This message has been edited by Bidyut Padhi (edited June 18, 2001).]
 
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congratulations , Madhu. That is great score. All the very best for the rest of the exam. Hope you will hang around & help other javaranchers on this matter.
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Thanks everyone.
For load balancing, fault tolerance only the definitions will do. I got some definition from http://wwww.webopedia.com. For example for load balancing the link is : http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/load_balancing.html
And also refer to Oreilly's JMS which says the Messaging Queueing domain is built upon clustering.
"A queue may have multiple receivers attached to it for the purpose of distributing the workload of message processing. A sender could use this feature to distribute messages to multiple instances of an application, each of which would provide its own receiver. When multiple receivers are attached to a queue, each message in the queue is delivered to one receiver. "
For clustering refer to : http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/ntserverenterprise/techdetails/prodarch/ClustArchit.asp
Also refer to microsoft DNA blueprint. I just went through this document before going to the exam. I did not get any questions on DNA. But some of them in this forum have suggested this.
And for EJB be thorough with life cycle management, transaction levels, passivation issues, data access object (why and when they are used). The scenarios where a stateless SB is used and where stateful has to be used. Similar for Session and Entity beans.
 
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Congrats Madhu,
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You deserve it
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I have seen your posts in this forum in the last few months which shows how much you have worked to get this.
Congrats again
 
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How can I get access John Wetherbie's notes ?
Thanks !
Leon
 
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they are here
check out this link too here
The link you wanted is here
 
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Thanks.
Can you help as to how should we proceed for part II and part III.
 
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Hi! Madhu,
Congratulations!!! on your great sucess.
Could you please tell me How to prepare for design patterns? I am going through book Design patterns By Eric Gamma .... but, I am just concentrating on defination, structures, consequences and related patterns of all the designs given. I am not giving much attention to implementation and sample codes given in the book. Please guide me how to study for design Patterns
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Detailed study on Design patterns is not required. If you know the definitions that will do.
I studied GOF for definitions and also Cooper for understanding the definitions (of GOF) thru examples (as this book contains Java examples). It is not required to implement these examples.
HTH

 
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Madhu,
Thanks for replying. What is this GOF?

shivani
 
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I passed the first exam six months last year in october witn 86%, I did not get time after that. Now i have enrolled for the second part of it. The assignment, Is there anybody working on the assignment.

sanjay
 
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GOF is Gang of Four ie the Gamma book on Design Patterns.
 
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Dear Madhu,
Congradulations to your success! Best luck to your effort towards the other assignments.
Could you please describe what is the best book and way (excersizers) to prepare the first part according to your experience ?
Thanks in advance.
With the best respect.
Ruilin
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I studied the following books :
1. Java Blue prints
2. JMS by Oreilly
3. UML Distilled by Martin Fowler (I have designed one project in UML)
4. i18n - from Sun's tutorial
5. JMS - Sun's tutorial
6. EJB by Oreilly (Chapters 2 to 8 and 10)
7. EJB by Ed Roman (Some chapters) Also CORBA and IIOP chapter.
8. EjB Code Camp
9. Java Network Security Chapters 1, 4,5,6, 8,9,14,15,16. Explains good about protocols, firewalls, design approach, OSI model etc
10. Design Patterns by Gamma (Only the definitions on page 8) and Design Patterns by Cooper (I understand from the examples as this book contains examples in Java)
11. Certification guide by Jamie Chapters 17 to 21. Contains information on Screen Scrapers, Upgrading Client tier, Middle Tier and DB tier.
I did pratice from the Reference Implementation of EJB from the Sun's Site.
I spent about 2-3 hours for 4 months and 8 hours for last 15 days. This norm may be different for different people. Less for some experienced people.
And read all the posts (part I) from this forum
HTH
 
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Madhu,
Thanks for u kind information/guidance, which help me greatly.
All the best for your new assignments
Ruilin
 
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9. Java Network Security Chapters 1, 4,5,6, 8,9,14,15,16. Explains good about protocols, firewalls, design approach, OSI model etc
Please tell me the author for this book.
Regards,
Anupama
 
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The authors of this book (also called IBM Red Book)
Marco Pistoia, Duane F. Reller
Deepak Gupta, Milind Nagnur, Ashok K. Ramani

This book can also be downloaded.
Refer for link: http://www.javaranch.com/ubb/Forum26/HTML/000393.html
 
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Madhu in one post u suggested
posted June 18, 2001 09:47 PM
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Here is the link : http://classic.tep.ru/serge/computechinfo/java/sg242109_Java2Netw
orkSec.pdf
For user : guest and Password : guest
But user name and passport is not working. Is that correct information ?.
 
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I tried again. It is working. But it takes longer for the pdf to load.
HTH
 
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Originally posted by Madhu Juneja:
I tried again. It is working. But it takes longer for the pdf to load.
HTH


I tried the site and username and password, but it didn't work!
 
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What is the problem you are facing ? Are you able to go to the site ?
As I am able to go to the link and giving the user name and password it is taking around 20 to 25 minutes for the pdf to be displayed. And also I have tried in Netscape. I was able to access now too.
 
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Or maybe you can try this link giving the IP Address instead of classic.tep.ru as 195.162.38.3.
May be you have problems accessing IP Addresses with 195 series from that side of the globe. Just my guess.
 
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Have mentioned the books / material (11 of them) in the same link. I started off with Oreilly's EJB though there is no continuity between one book and the other. Each has its own objectives. It is only a matter of convenience. And moreover one has to study the material more than once to understand better.
 
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UML Distilled will be a good book to start with.
 
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Hi! Madhu,
For Design pattern you mentioned to read Cooper's book for understanding the patterns in Java. I coudnot get Cooper's book and I was going through some other book which alogwithe the patterns defined in GOF it was dealing wiht GRASP patterns in Java which includes Lowcoupling/ high coupling, Expert.....
Do I have to understand these patterns also or only one mentioned in GOF.
shivani
 
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Hi Madhu,
CONGRATULATIONS ! AND GOOD LUCK FOR PARTS 2 & 3
I tried the link above and got error message the first time, then I realized that part of the link in your post is on second line and is not underlined so people are facing problem.
For their benefit, the link is :-
http://classic.tep.ru/serge/computechinfo/java/sg242109_Java2NetworkSec.pdf
Regards,
Vishakha
 
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Hi shivani
For the exam you will only have to know all the patterns from GOF. In addition to that you should also know about the various senarios where those patterns have been applied in j2ee design (that is the tricky part), You dont need that book from Cooper, since I had that book and I didnt use it much. What I could help you is applying Design Patterns in develepment work - At least it helped me.
Vivek Viswanathan
 
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Umesh, I read oreilly's ejb though I have not read wrox. And vivek is right. UML Distilled is sufficient enough for exam point of view though UML by three amigos and Applying UML patterns are also good.
Shivani, for design patterns I think that only definitions on page 8 from GOF is sufficient enough and also to know which patterns ejb Home, Remote and ResultSet follow. I will post the cooper link tommorrow.
Thanks vishaka for the right link.
HTH
 
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Thanks everbody for suggestions.
 
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Hi! vivek and Madhu ,
Thanks for your reply. I was totally confused about design patterns.
shivani
 
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This is just for the benefit of anyone requiring the Design Patterns by Cooper :
http://patterndepot.com/put/8/JavaPatterns.htm
 
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Hi! Madhu,

Could you please tell me link for sun's i18n tutorial.
shivani
 
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Hi, Madhu

Congratulations. I have also recently cleared scea part1.
Now iam in the process of doing part2. in fact i just started
2 days back. if you also happen to start soon, then we can share
our experiences while working. keep in touch.
good luck
 
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Congrats, Madhu.
You mentinoed that you read some chapters from Roman's EJB books. Can you please tell which chapters you read from that book?
Thanks.
 
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