I took the
SCEA part I exam and passed with 85% yesterday.
I have 1 year of
J2EE experience and spent 60 hours on preparing for the exam.
I used
Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Technology Study Guide by Mark Cade, Simon Roberts (Very good to get an overview, but not very detailed)Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Study Guide by Paul Allen and Joseph Bambara (horrible book, contains a lot of bugs and to many useless pages (pages with printouts from test program for instance), but it is more detailed than Cade and Roberts)Design Patterns by GoF (More details on design patterns than Cade and Roberts, and a real classic)UML Distilled 2.0 by Martin Fowler (probably not a good idea, since the version used in the exam is 1.x)http://www.leocrawford.org.uk/work/jcea/part1/index.html (great summary page)Whizlabs exam preparation kit (Also contains some bugs, but when you are aware of it it's a great help. I got around 73% on almost all test exams, so the questions are probably a little harder then the real exam) A few questions surprised me on the exam. Technical questions about B2B and a question requiring me to know what a specific vendors product is used for.
I Hope this information is usefull!
Cheers,
J�rgen