SCJP 5.0 exam live on April 18th

[Jeff Thor]

Just wanted to let those know who haven't heard that the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (310-055), will be live on April 18.

Cheers,
Jeff

[Nicholas Cheung]

That's a good news.

And beta takers are going to get the result soon.

Nick

[Joe Sondow]

Thanks for the heads up, Jeff. How did you hear about it? I can't seem to find any info on Sun's web site about the SCJP 5.0 beta or otherwise. Are there any links to read up on it?

Thanks in advance.

[Nicholas Cheung]

Might be this is an email to those who subscribed with SUN's latest news.

Or this might be an email that sent from Prometric for those SCJP Tiger Beta takers.

Nick

[Jeroen Wenting]

The Sun education newsletter for Europe doesn't mention anything about the 1.5 SCJP.
It does mention a seminar about 1.5 to be held early May.

[Sanju Thomas]

Can any one give a clarification ?

[Jeff Thor]

I sent an e-mail into Sun Education on the date for the new test and they responded with April 18th. The email address is [email protected].

Cheers,
Jeff

[David Brafford]

And yes, J2SE 5 is now showing on the list:

http://www.sun.com/training/certification/java/java_progj2se.html

Regards,

David Brafford

[Nicholas Cheung]

A bit disappointed that the passing score is 59% only.

Nick

[Marcus Green]

Plenty of people will still not pass

[lauren bai]

Thanks.

To me. 59% is high enough.

[Vincent Brabant]

Originally posted by Marcus Green:
Plenty of people will still not pass

It means that plenty of people are not yet ready to develop Java Application.

[Peter Gravestock]

Dang it! Just bought the study guides for 1.4!! Should I still do the 1.4 exam? What has changed in the new exam? Most advice welcome!

[Nicholas Cheung]

It means that plenty of people are not yet ready to develop Java Application.

It only means plenty of people are not yet read to develop Java Application using Tiger.

Nick

[Nicholas Cheung]

Plenty of people will still not pass

However, for SCDJWS, even the passing rate is 68%, there were still plenty of people passed in the beta exams.

Since SCDJWS should be harded than SCJP, and thus, SCJP should have a higher passing rate.

Nick

[Nicholas Cheung]

Dang it! Just bought the study guides for 1.4!! Should I still do the 1.4 exam? What has changed in the new exam? Most advice welcome!

Please do a simple search. There are lots of related posts.

In short, you will found the exam format has been changed from MC questions only, to MC questions with Drag and Drop questions.

It required you to know some of the important new features, like enhanced for-loop, Generics, autoboxing, PriorityQueue, etc. It also requires you to have a deep understanding in OO concepts.

Also, you can expect the level of difficulty from the exam time. You have 175 mins for 72 questions, which means that 2.5 mins per question.

Nick