Originally posted by Sanjay pts:
hi
My heartly congrates for your success.
Hey marco can you tell me what u read in that last 231/2 hrs.???
thanx
sanjay
The preparation for the certification has been a constant job (which I had to arrange with my 'real' job) which took me, amongst all, 6 months. I studied on HF
JSP (as probably 90% of candidates did) and I decided not even to look even at a mock exam (except the ones at the end of each chapter) until I completed and knew by heart the HF topics. By the time I arrived at custom tags, I forgot most of what I learned about
servlets and JSP, so feeling very badly about it, I decided to go back and start again. There was no point in finishing the book if I couldn't rememebr what I studied before. The second time, though, it took my a lot less to memorize Servlets and JSP, and this time I arrived at custom tags remembering what I studied before. So I arrived at the end of the book.
Once finished, which was circa 7 days ago, I started the softSCWCD mock exams (which I would reccommend, although there are some bugs; these are really tough, and if you score high there you shouldn't have problems with your cert). Then I took all the JDiscuss mock exams, the Javaranch one scoring good markings. Then two days ago, I was supposed to come back early in the afternoon, and take the HF one (which is VERY tough), but as you probably know, I had to help a colleague because we had to port one of our services live by yesterday. And to is happens that I worked 23.5 hours straight, got a couple of hours sleep, and took the exam.