Appeared the exam a few hours ago

[Ashik Uzzaman]

Appeared the exam a few hours ago. The exam was not easy, especially for me as I don't have any project experience on EJB. There are lots of questions regarding the interfaces, classes, exceptions and deployment descriptor etc. Knowing the syntaxes or hands on practice is needed. And I also could not answer a few Drag and Drop questions like you all, even though my PC O/S was Windows 2000 Professional. I was in time pressure from the very beginning, but I think that was only because I took lot time for the first 20/30 questions. I did not get bored or tired during the exam as it was a very interesting exam experience. I used logical approach rather than trying to remember points in many quesetions. Even during time pressure I put comments on a few questions.
I only went through Ed Roman's book (first 11 chapters) and had a two hours' quick look at spec morning today. But I encourage others to go through the spec for a week (you can't afford to wait one week from now if you don't want to loose the train for 400 passengers ). During my preparation I followed the ranch discussions and collected them in a single document with mocks and related info for all our's sake. It was helpful for me to understand the topics within a short time.
Best of luck to my following exam-takers.

[Kalpesh Soni]

what do you mean when u say could not answer ?
does the system crash if you attempt ?
is there any option to save the test you attempted so far, before trying to attempt dnd question ?
can I skip dnd questions, save test, and then attempt them ??

[Ashik Uzzaman]

In two questions simply DnD did not work. But nothing to worry, there are 183 qs and possibly around 30 DnD. After answering 2/3 DnD, you'll understand the easy rule. You can mark for review, skip DnD questions or later come to change but changing a DnD means that question have to answered again.

[sh yh]

I'm pretty sure you've learned a lot in your preparation process. Also thanks for your study materials. Excellent jobs!

[Kalpesh Soni]

" did not work " should be ok
the point is, the system should not crash
or else 4 hours would have to be invested again

[Ashik Uzzaman]

An I also missed 4/5 DnD questions that I could not drag/move to the right position. I thought this is the natural software bug, but I find here many people did not face that problem. Then probably I misunderstood on how to drag and drop in a few questions.

[manasa teja]

For me also, it happened for 3 to 4 quuestions. It says some " out of system resources"... Any how I skipped those questions with some comments.. Must be a bug in test software.. Hope , they will be taken care in the real exam