Hi All,
I passed Part 1 yesterday and obtained 78%.
I used the following resource during my preparation:
Head First OOADHead First Design PatternsAllen' SCEA 5 Study GuideCade' SCEA 5 Study GuideGOF (as a reference, I didn't read it entirely)Core J2EE PatternsUML DistilledJ2EE SpecificationsJava Web Start White PaperMikalai Zaikin SCEA 5 Study Guide (The Security Part)Notes from the Sun SL425 courseThe Architecture Part of Mastering JavaServer Faces
and I practiced with Whizlabs Mocks.
Questions are generally very large but time was not an issue for me.
I had very few short questions. There are almost all like "ABC Inc. wants to migrate...."
I saw:
- a lot of Web Service questions (for me, the most difficult part)
- a lot of patterns questions (I was almost well prepared and it was not a problem)
- some security questions
- some web/JSF questions
- one CORBA question
- no UML
The main issue, for me, was that, in the list of answers, one is obviously false but the others are all technically possible.
It was sometimes hard to select the "best" choice.
And for me, the complexity of the questions was not far from the Whizlabs' mock exam:
In the Whizlabls' Practice exams, I obtained 73%, 84% and 80%. And 81% in the final exam.
...Not far from my 78%.
Thanks a lot to all the ranchers for your help.
And now... Let's go to Part 2 !
Benoît