The book is terrible. It is a waste of money.
It misses whole objectives as well as missing whole topics. Mark Cade should be disgraced for
allowing his name to be associated with this "study guide" The best guides are
http://www.javaranch.com/scealinks.jsp and the scea in a nutshell on the yahoo group
for
j2ee architecture.
Basically Order of reading:
EJB 1.1 Specs
Haefel Book
UML Design, Learn all the diagrams.
GOF Design Patterns Book + another DP book for
good measure.
Hit the Firewall notes from websites above
Hit the Legacy Connectivity websites above
Hit the security tutorial on Sun
Hit the Internationalization tutorial on sun
Do all the mock exams you can find..
Jawarski
IBM ICe
JWhiz
Ians..
Sun EJB quiz..
another good one which I forget ..
When you get something wrong go to the book
that tells you the answer and figure out why the
answer was wrong.
Now go to all the review notes from the architects.
Review the sunobjectives
Do mock exams again..
Get over 90% on all the mock exams
Go write part I and you will pass with flying
colors.