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The new exam doesn't have any new objectives or topics
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
Hey Mikalai,
Good question![]()
The folks at Sun who put out new versions of Java EE didn't meet with the folks at Sun who create certification exams. The feeling was that if there was a new version of Java EE, there better be a new version of SCWCD - even though the new version of Java EE didn't have any impact on the exam. So, I guess you could call it a "synchronization" update, just to keep everything lined up.
The other thing is that we had a chance to see how the old questions were doing, take out some of the less amazing old questions and, we hope, replace them with better questions. So, even though there aren't any new topics, we hope the new exam will be a better exam.
Bert
Originally posted by Ken Duncan:
There are no changes in objectives but how about all the little details of what's what. Aren't there API changes in Java EE 5? If so, then studying using the old book, unless I manage to take the current exam first, won't be sufficient.
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Originally posted by Christophe Verre:
No, but it's part of J2EE1.5. But in the JSP specification, EL has been enhanced to make friend with JSF.
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Originally posted by Marc Peabody:
Not really.
Check out Scwcd 5 Links. Next to the spec links are links to what has changed in the specs.
Originally posted by Ken Duncan:
I've now looked at these links. If one wanted to do so, one could write twenty new questions based on these changes, like the use of generics and annotations. That would be enough to make the difference between passing and not passing the test.
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Originally posted by Marc Peabody:
By your hypothetical "one" you mean Bert and the rest of the cert team. If they had done something like you are suggesting, Bert would have said so. In fact, his answers would have been completely different.
I find what you said interesting, but please keep in mind that words like this can put unfounded doubts into others' minds. Bert clarified a lot of questions everyone has had for months about the exam. I really would hate to see his facts clouded with dubiety.
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IMHO If Sun doesn't have time to update their exams so I think they don't have to come out with any new one!
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
Okay, here's the dilemma that Sun faced: There was a new version of Java EE, but the Sun certification team decided that there was nothing in it that should be added to the existing exam.
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
We looked at JSF and we decided we would just spread the exam too thin if we tried to add JSF objectives to the SCWCD.
JSF is an important technology, and as Sun looks forward to new exams in the future I wouldn't be at all surprised to see JSF in the mix.
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Originally posted by Mihai Radulescu:
Hi
There is still something what I don't get, I plan to sustain the exam in some weeks, so this will be the new exam 1.5 ? or the old one 1.4 ?
If there is a new one why I need to worry about the old one ?
Regards
M
[ January 27, 2008: Message edited by: Mihai Radulescu ]
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