Hi Amit,
I 101% agree with Shiva, additional 1% for his really really considerable advise to you!!!
I am a 6+ yrs software professional with 4.5+ yr experience in
J2EE but still I am just a
SCJP, though preparing good for SCWCD, and soon will be a SCWCD.
YES, there is simply no point in collecting ceritifcates, that's kind a stupid! A couple weeks ago I got a chance to take couple of interviews for a requirement, I was having 4 resumes, one of which had 4 ceritifications. I decided to take his interview first because I was sure that this guy will meet our requirements and I will save time by not doing other interviews. Would you believe I was ashamed with the kind of interview I had with this guy!!!
Here is my sincere advise (if you really are following responses in this post):
Put one month in completing HFSJ with 2-3 hr daily consistent/persistent study. If you spend more time say 6 hr a day there are chances you would forget the concepts soon and certification would become mere a certification and not knowledge.
Put another month in enthuware JWebPlus Mock exams
And there you are... a persistent web component developer and certified too!
Request you to think 10 times before you decide to get certified in 20 days!! In fact 20 days is way-ambititous, rather crazy! Better do an outing of 20 days to South if you are in India and West if you are in US :-)
Also believe me you CANNOT score more than 90% with fast study. More than 90% is possible with constant speed, not fast speed.
Like Shiva said, I would also strongly recommend hands on along with thoery. Otherwise you are learning nothing!
You should enjoy two advantages of certification: Knowledge Acquisition and Feeling authentic - 'Certified'.
Please appreciate my and Shiva's such a long response, and do not try doing certification in 20 days pleeease!
BTW, an year is very long... consists of 12 months. You can get 3 certificates with cool pace, what is such a hurry with you! Please share if you dont mind.
ALL THE BEST.