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"Survey" before the SCJP exam...?

 
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Do your answers to the survey that you take just before the exam (where you are asked to rate yourself on various aspects of Java)in anyway effect the kind of questions you are asked? In other words, if I lie and say I'm an expert in all areas, am I going to get harder questions?
 
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no. They're far sneakier than that.
They WANT you to fail so they give you harder questions on areas you admit you're weak in (after all, every time you have to retake the exam Sun gets another $150).

sarcasm mode=="off"

I doubt it'll make any difference. Data is probably used only for statistical purposes (but how are you ever going to know one way or the other unless you take the exam several times using different names (after all, they could pull up historical data too to determine the questions so you have to start with a new Prometric ID)).
 
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Your answers on the survey make absolutely no difference in what questions you get on the exam. The survey is only used by Sun to evaluate the effectiveness of their exam. The questions you get are pulled randomly from a "question bank."

The purpose of the survey is to let Sun know if a section of the exam is too easy or too difficult. For example, if everyone says that they're experts in threading and yet almost everyone is missing the threading questions, perhaps Sun would want to tone down the difficulty of that section. Similarly, if everyone said they were novices at exception handling and yet they all get the questions correct, Sun might want to up the difficulty a notch.

The short of the story, though, is that your resonses on the survey will have no impact on the questions you get.
 
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