Hello All,
I took the SCWCD exam today and passed with a score of 85%.
Here is a brief summary of the strategy that I followed:
1) Read HFSJ throughly once. Kathy,Bert,Bryan - thanks for the excellent book, it makes understanding tough concepts so simple! I bought your latest edition of HFJava to make some of the concepts clearer.
2) Bought JWebPlus and did all the Standard and Practice Tests. I failed in the first
test but passed in all the others.
3) Created a few custom tests on topics that I was not comfortable with (10 random questions) and took about 4 or 5 of them.
4) Took the test at j2eecertificate.com, passed with 68%.
5) Finally took HFSJ mock test - man that was tough!!! I failed with 55% only but I had read that you can add about 20% to your HFSJ score for the final exam so I went ahead and took the test today and lo and behold I got 30% more!!!
6) Also I browsed through HFSJ once and jotted down important points from all the chapters for the final revision.
7) I also had the Deshmukh book for 1.3 and went through the Final Revision chapters at the end of the book, this helped a lot too even though some topics were not relevant.
8) Specs: Just browsed through them on and off, no serious reading.
Comment on the Exam:
Some general comments on the exam -
The exam is mixed bag and you need to have a good understanding of the concepts. There are some very easy questions while some are really tough and make you think. I got a lot of questions on
Patterns and also EL. Obviously the API's are important too.
That's it for now. Let me know if you have any questions.
Srinath