Today ,I passed the exam with 89%.I am delighted to tell you that I cleared
the shit but a little disappointed too because before ending the exam I was
thinking I would get above 95% but could not,that was my carelessness and hastiness which caused this the low score.
Anyways , here is my experienced.
preparation materials 1.Head First Servlet/Jsp 1.5
2.Marcus Green Notes
3.Whizlabs 1.4
4.Core servelts and More
servlets tutorials.
5.I don't recommend reading Apis/Specifications.
6.This forum
7.Listen to Chris Verre(he is adept in Jsp/Servlet)
I less scored in security and design
pattern but got 100% scored in EL and Custom Tags.
Exam Style The exam comprises of more than 60% questions regarding EL and Custom Tags,six questions from design pattern, four or five questions from security
and the equivalent from session management.
tips :
1.You must know methods of cookies such as setMaxAge() and setSecure().
2.You must know difference among business delegate,service locater and transfer object.
3.Make sure you know Jar files generate life cycle of
jsp and servlet.
4.Make sure you know methods such as getServerName,getContextPath,getPathInfo.
5.Make sure you know how getLastAccessedTime() and getCreationTime work together or how you can take advantage of such methods.
6.You must know when container generate tld for tag files.
7.Make sure you know how mime mapping works.
8.Make sure you know how things work when it comes to session management.
9.Make sure you know the work of SessionContextListener,HttpSessionBindingListener.
10.Do hard practice in EL for knowing the power of [] operator.
11.Hey ! I got a question regarding variable directive too.
12.One question regarding beanName attribute !! yes you heard correct !! it was the shit beanName ,how on earth it was doing on the exam I don't know.
13.Make sure you know you have good knowledge of authentication types and security-constraint element of DD.
14.Last but not least , do not forget the role of pageContext.
best regards,
omi sharma
[ October 09, 2008: Message edited by: omi sharma ]