Cleared SCEA 5 Part 1

[Varun Chopra]

Friends,

Thanks for great information I got from forums here while preparing for part 1.
I passed with 96% marks. I am now looking forward to part 2.

regards
Varun

[Mikalai Zaikin]

Varun Chopra wrote:Friends,

Thanks for great information I got from forums here while preparing for part 1.
I passed with 96% marks. I am now looking forward to part 2.

regards
Varun

Congratulations !

Impressive score

regards,
MZ

[Varun Chopra]

Thanks Mikalai. To be honest, I was lucky to get some questions that I found on mock SCEA exams all over the net. But one has to prepare for at least 1-2 months before taking this exam.

[Rogerio Kioshi]

Great score Varun!!

Please tell us how was your preparation for the test (books, mocks, how many time have you studied).


Congratulations!!

[Varun Chopra]

Thanks Rogerio.
I mainly went through following material:

1. JEE 5 tutorial from SUN (http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/gfirp.html). I bought this book's hardcopy, which helped me read it whenever I had time and wherever I was

2. Went through this tutorial from Mikalai - http://java.boot.by/scea5-guide/

3. Went through patterns on following links

http://www.allapplabs.com/java_design_patterns/
http://www.corej2eepatterns.com/Patterns2ndEd/ViewHelper.htm

4. javaworld.com tutorials on individual topics - They use very simple language, so learning is easy

5. Also went through Mark Cade's book, although it is not up-to-date but still very precise and helpful

I have over 9 years of experience working in java/j2ee applications. I have worked in EJB, Servlets, JSP in the past and am working on JPA, JSF and EJB3 these days. My weak areas were web services (never actually coded in them), security (occasionally used explicit role based permissions on EJB and web layer), encryption mechanisms (algorithms and their categories), legacy integration (JCA - I read about JCA and its examples for the first time while preparing for SCEA 5).
I would say, shortlist your weak areas, then focus on them, search tutorials online (from javaworld or other sites), and gradually get better at them. Do understand these areas conceptually and feel comfortable in them. Then you are good to go.

[arulk pillai]

Congrats and all the best with the preparation for Part 2.

[Bhavin Patil]

Congratulation that is very impressive

[Varun Chopra]

Thanks Bhavin and Arulk.

[Jose Luis Iturbide]

Congratulations!

Cheers!

[Krishna Srinivasan]

congrats!!

[Varun Chopra]

Thanks.

[Juee Doo]

Congrats

[Sevvel Kannan]

Congrats Great score.

[Joe San]

Congrats!

[pep mendez]

Hi,

I've been reading your messages and I'am impressed. Congratulaions. Could you tell us about the percentage of questios of each topic? patterns, security, services, and so on?

So, now what? are there still steps to take?

Best

Pep

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[Sameer Ali]

Hi Varun,
Congrates for your score.

Please tell me, where did you get the hardcopy of tutorial from.

Also, did you used any exam simulators

[chetan agg]

Congrats buddy...Very good score...

Can you please share how did you practise? I mean where did you find mock exams? Did purchase any software? Any recommendations will be great?

Thanks
Chetab

[Vamsi Mohan]

Congrats!

Please also help us in clearing SCEA 5 part-1. So that, we can form a community of Enterprize architects and work for the best solutions.