SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4, PMP, ITIL V3 Foundation
Originally posted by Claudio Lande:
yesterday I cleared SCWCD with 89%.
SCJP 1.4 - 95% [ My Story ] - SCWCD 1.4 - 91% [ My Story ]
Performance is a compulsion, not a option, if my existence is to be justified.
2) not 6 years old kids having to learn a poem for tomorrow's school test.
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A good workman is known by his tools.
- first off, the exam creation team felt that it was important to cover a lot of the "legacy" stuff, even though it's not officially "current" because so many companies are slow in moving to new technologies. Also because developers are likely to encounter a lot of legacy code. So we thought it would be bad, for instance, for a programmer to be certified, but not know about scriptlets if they encountered them.
- second: Sun is really in a bind in terms of these tests because they have to be administered equally all across the world. That limits the test engine to a "lowest common denominator" tool, which frankly, is pretty limited.
- third: Sun is constrained by the amount of money they can charge for these exams. They get a lot of compliants about the exam costing $150, and more complex exams like the ones you're suggesting tend to be more expensive to administer. (Like the SCJD, for instance.)
If you're frustrated about memorization and old technology, I'm surprised you ever considered SCBCD.
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4, PMP, ITIL V3 Foundation
I see your point. Still I disagree for the following reasons:
1) it is very frustrating to have to learn things and then be told not to use them because they are discouraged (evil, bad practice, deprecated, etc.)!
2) as time goes by Sun comes up with better ways to do things. This means that sometimes there are 3 or 4 different ways to do rougly the same thing (like including jsp/html fragments) with different techniques. This leads to confusion.
3) Certification exams have a (Java) version number so people should be expected to know what is current for a given version and not what was specified in the old days of the J2EE spec
If you are going to work with Sun for a revision of SCBCD, please strip off the old stuff and stick only to EJB 3.0 spec!
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- second: Sun is really in a bind in terms of these tests because they have to be administered equally all across the world. That limits the test engine to a "lowest common denominator" tool, which frankly, is pretty limited.
I'm not sure I understand this. Changing the test doesn't mean providing a new test software to Prometric centers?
I see. But the test could contain questions like the ones related to patterns where a sketched "real world" situation is described and the candidate has to select the correct pattern to tackle the problem.
Just for the record, regarding the cost of the exam, I had to pay 252euros VAT included (rougly 327 USD) for the taking the test. I am really curious and would like to know more about the pricing policy adopted by Sun! Why is in Italy the price twice as much as in the States while the cost of living is higher in the US (of course I'm not complaining with you about it)?
Spot false dilemmas now, ask me how!
(If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD 1.4, PMP, ITIL V3 Foundation