posted 19 years ago
While I have fresh impression after the exam, I want to share the tips I learned for myself:
1. You need nothing more than K&B book and maybe few mocks to make sure you are ready.
2. K&B tests are of the same difficulty as the exam
3. If you are reading K&B book, read every single line of it, even if you know that topic, you will find things you wouldn't even think about in that book and they will be on exam.
4. You will probably finish exam in half time (if you are well prepared), Please! do go back and check your answers! I know the temptation to get your score, but do go back and look at everything again, but second time check more for syntax tricks, because you probably did your best on the logic part already. I found 4 questions that I missed the syntax error in.
5. Be very carefull with wording, understand every question before you look at the answers. Be careful with wording of the answers too.
6. Don't panic if you see something unfamiliar. If you have no idea what code is doing check the syntax first. One of the questions had very strange code that I was sure wasn't covered by K&B, so I took a shot and checked the syntax, and there it was - simplest syntax error.
7. Be very good with garbage collection and threads, I think Dan's mocks will help there.
8. You have to remember common Constructors and methods syntax
I would want to thank Katy Sierra and Bert Bates (sorry for misspellings) for their work. Their book was the best purchase I ever made.