SCJP2 Beta Exam

[Anonymous]

Can anyone who has taken the Beta Exam scheduled between Aug10-23 share his or her thoughts??

[Vikram Ranade]

I took the exam on 14th.
162 Questions/210 minutes.
Found it tough to complete, No time was left for re-visiting questions.
RHE is not enough, must go through the API docs.
Lot of questions on Threads - none too easy - Looks like Most of the questions were from experience.
Lot of twisted questions.
Questions on util and Layout managers were comparatively easy.
Found couple of questions with mistake.
The one thing I realized is that Beta is for experts - experienced people only, who can answer the questions very quickly.
Vikram

[Anonymous]

I am planning to take it this Friday. I am not certified yet but have an year of Java Work Experience. I am preparing from RHE. Do you have any suggestions?

[vivek rai]

i took it on 14th as well.
something which made things easier than the other exams was that u r now told the number of correct answers in the cases when more than one choices are correct ( like chose 2 ).
I thought it kind of drained me.. (as did the jaworsky exam.).. its so hard to remain attentive for such a long time.
there were a few questions on inner classes... think the coverage of Collections is a bit deeper than earlier.
cheers,
vivek

[This message has been edited by vivek rai (edited August 16, 2000).]

[Marcela Blei]

Thanks for sharing your experience, I am taking the exam on Tuesday 22, I will share mine when I finished.