About JCP Exam Syllabus of 1.4

[Jyotisree Dhar]

hi all, i am going to give the jcp. I want some information about that exam.What is the syllabus?How can i get help related to exam?
Please tell me
Regards
Jyotisree

[Anupam Sinha]

Hi Jyotisree
You may appreciate reading the javaranch's FAQ for SCJP.

[Jyotisree Dhar]

thanks Anupam ,
One thing ,i wanted to ask u ,that is, there is two version 1.2 and 1.4.Which one should i give.Please tell me.
jyotisree

[Anupam Sinha]

Hi Jyotisree

Well it really depends upon you. Personally I have taken the 1.4 exam and I guess most of the people also take the same(guessing by the no. of posts for 1.4 material and 1.2 material).
The 1.4 exam is new and secondly, personally I feel that it has less no. of objectives to study. That is the course to study is less.

[La Vish]

Just take 1.4 exam and forget 1.2!

[bennido kool kat]

Well, i bought quite a bit of stuff (books, CDs, etc) for the Java 1.2 exam a while back. But never had the time to study properly for the exam and now 1.4 has come out.
But since all my stuff is on 1.2, I'll just take 1.2 rather than spend more $$ upgrading my study material.

[bennido kool kat]

But then again ...
Since SCJP 1.4 is a subset of SCJP 1.2, would I be able to take the SCJP 1.4 exam based on what I study from my SCJP 1.2 study materials ?

[Jessica Sant]

Originally posted by bennido kool kat:
Since SCJP 1.4 is a subset of SCJP 1.2, would I be able to take the SCJP 1.4 exam based on what I study from my SCJP 1.2 study materials ?

That's exactly what I did... Basically skip the chapters that have to deal with I/O and AWT and find some extra Assertions study material on the web.
Check out this information provided by Khalid and Rasmussen in order to prepare for the 1.4 exam if you are using their 1.2 book.
[ July 07, 2003: Message edited by: Jessica Sant ]