Well, well, well, ...
First, when I arrived at the
test center (after a one-hour road trip under 35�C) the guy told me that they had just installed the new Prometric software last Friday and that ... it didn't work
There I was wondering if I had to go back home and come back another day... Finally, they called Prometric and the lady told them to reinstall the old software and that the new one would go better within a month or two
90 minutes later, the old software was up and running again and I could take the test.
I had no problem with the DnD questions, I very much liked them by the way
Otherwise, there was very few typos (close to none), I only found two or three questions that were badly worded or simply confusing.
I can't remember any single questions not coming straight from the spec. So the spec is sufficient although any other resource would not harm
4 hours is largely sufficient to complete the exam and review your 30 marked questions. Actually, it took me 3 1/2 hours to get that thing done.
Do learn well the different bean life cycles and understand how they work (Fig. 5 p.77, Fig. 23 p. 168, Fig. 58 p.319). Know what is allowed from within the beans' methods (Table 2 p.80, Table 4 p.179, Table 12 p.320)
Actually, I must admit that my cheat sheets about
bean provider responsibilities and
exception handling really helped me answer several questions.
EJB-QL questions are not very tough if you already have some basic experience with databases and the SQL language.
I'll brush up my latest cheat sheet about "who is responsible for what in the deployment descriptor" as this also helped me a lot and I'll post it tomorrow on my web site.
Good luck to all remaining aspirants
Valetine! Carry on!!
