Originally posted by Robbi Palacios:
How did you manage to take all of those certifications? What time
span in months did it took for each of them?
Not months - years.
I've been a
Java programmer for about seven years now. Started with my
SCJP 1.2 in March of 2001, though - mandated by my company, just to have the certificates on the wall in our lobby and to be able to tell customers that we had certified programmers on staff. My little run of certs has been mostly based on whatever I'm working with at the moment, from WebSphere to DB2 to just-plain-JavaEE.
And no, no EJB cert there yet. Haven't yet worked for a company that's used EJBs (though I did train to use EJB 2.0 at one point, with my last employer) yet, though if I can come up with a credible reason for needing them at the moment, as the development lead on my team, I'm allowed to put in for something to use new technologies... :-D
(And for what it's worth, certification book or not... I'm not a big believer in 'certification books'. I'd rather have something to teach me the technology and be able to be used as a reference book later, and to pass the
test having a comfortable grasp of the technology... but that's just my $0.02.)
[ August 15, 2006: Message edited by: Theodore Casser ]