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hello all,
i was planning to take other certifications for java, such as web developer or business component developer/.
Now, SCJP was asking questions that you normally don't encounter during your
work (the rare cases)

aret he other certifications the same? or do they test you on what you really would encounter if you are, for example, a java web developer or java ejb developer?

thanks in advance and regards
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The SCJP 5.0 pretty much covers all that you would see in your real job. We specifically created objectives with that in mind. Now some people might not do Threads in their first job, but I am sure at some point they will, if you are referring to a topic like Threads.

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Hey Mark,

The link in your signature (http://faq.javaranch.com/view?HowToAskQuestionsTheSmartWay) has nothing ??!!!....
 
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Out of all the stuff in the SCJP exam the only stuff I've rarely encountered are multithreading and assertions.
Both of those are directly related to my area of work, which is mainly web applications.
Assertions there are not something you want, as triggering one would crash the application server (oops...).
Servlets and JSPs are automatically multithreaded so there's little use for threads either (except the occasional thread being started to do some long running background task the client doesn't have to wait for).

In my SCJD assignment, I've used both however (though not many assertions, I might need to add some more at places).

And that one's another amalgamation of things you could encounter in your daily work, though for me it means mainly things I don't encounter in my daily work again because I do mainly serverside stuff and the SCJD is mainly clientside stuff.
 
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P.S.

Here's the URL that that sig used to refer to: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
 
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