small mistake in ExamLab

[Lucas Smith]

I have spotted a small error in the FinalExam.
Please, have a look on the screen. There is a lack of one curly brace after Serializable and the answer is considered good.

[Sebastian Janisch]

Is this screenshot from the real exam ?? It pretty much looks like it ...

[Lucas Smith]

This is a screen from the Final Exam from ExamLab

[Sebastian Janisch]

The curly brace is missing, probably a little flaw.

[Lucas Smith]

Yeah - it is a small mistake but I have decided to post it. Devaka Coorey's ExamLab is almost perfect

[Devaka Cooray]

Thank you Lukas for pointing this out.
This will be fixed with the next update, for sure.

Devaka.

[Lucas Smith]

By the way - There was info on Whizlab's site that if you find 2 mistakes in their questions your money will be refund.
I have spotted one mistake in their free trial exam - letter 'z' instead of 'r' or something like this - maybe they refund me - I have written to them

[Devaka Cooray]

I don't have to refund you anything since this is a freeware ;)

[Lucas Smith]

Yeah - but it's said about Whizlab

[Tommi Vd]

Is it true that the ExamLab is much difficulter than the real exam?

[Nitish Bangera]

Well people say that..... I myself haven't given the real exam so cannot comment on it....but examlab is real tough.

[Lucas Smith]

Yeah - think about it. Few people would pass SCJP in the first attempt if it was as difficult as ExamLab
BTW ExamLab is not very tough. It's simply tough

[Tommi Vd]

I have this book 'Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6', where you get a cdrom with 2 master exams.
The questions of these master exams are of the same level of the real exam? When you pass these exams, you can pass the real thing?

kind regards,
Thomas

[Lucas Smith]

The questions from CDROM are tougher than the real ones but easier than ExamLab

[Tommi Vd]

sure? :p

[Lucas Smith]

Rather - yes. But I have not got SCJP yet

[Tommi Vd]

Someone who can confirm this?

[Nitish Bangera]

Dude don't look at this like a real exam. These mock exams are there to prepare you up.....means those mistakes that you do now will be okay and those same mistakes you won't repeat in the final exam. You should confirm it yourself and stop worrying. That the wrong answers in a positive manner and learn from it.

[Tommi Vd]

off course i know that,

but by knowing what the level is of the exam i have taken against the scjp exam, i can see whether i'm almost there or not...
I have already made some mock exams and yes i do learn out of my mistakes

[Nitish Bangera]

mocks are definitely made tougher than the real exam.

[Tommi Vd]

i can not believe that the mock exams you find on the web are tougher then the real exam...

[Nitish Bangera]

Not Web.... I am talking about ExamLab and MasterExam. ExamLab is in a league of its own. Well if these two aren't tough means you are ready to write SCJP6.

[Tommi Vd]

ExamLab is tough...
The masterExams are doable i think, i need just a little more concentration to filter out the tricky questions :d

[Nitish Bangera]

I think masterexam has some problems like in classpath to find a class player.A we can directly include the directory of the where the package player is there and A class will be found. But in master exam it says that we have to use the fully qualified name player.A.

[Ankit Garg]

Nitish Bangera wrote:I think masterexam has some problems like in classpath to find a class player.A we can directly include the directory of the where the package player is there and A class will be found. But in master exam it says that we have to use the fully qualified name player.A.

I don't remember exactly, but I think you cannot assume that something will be placed in the classpath environment variable or as a flag of javac or java command unless it is specified in the question. So you can't assume that the parent directory of player package would be in the classpath (if you tell the exact question, then it would be easier to understand what you are trying to point to)...

[Nitish Bangera]

Actually it was said how can we compile player.A from a specified directory. So it was natural of me to assume that player was a package and A was the class. So i gave the classpath where the pakage directory was there from the current directory. like
java -cp classes A (classes/player/A.class) but the simulator said we have to include it like this java -cp classes player.A

[Ankit Garg]

Nitish Bangera wrote:Actually it was said how can we compile player.A from a specified directory. So it was natural of me to assume that player was a package and A was the class. So i gave the classpath where the pakage directory was there from the current directory. like
java -cp classes A (classes/player/A.class) but the simulator said we have to include it like this java -cp classes player.A

As far as I can interpret what you wrote, the master exam is right. You need to write the fully qualified name of the class. In no way can you access the class A directly. Even if you use the command java -cp classes/player A, it will not run, you'll have to use player.A as the class name...

[Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne]

oh Yeah... whiz labs is much much harder

i tried the damn thig and the marks i got from it were so low that i almost commited suicide.. but then two weeks later i passed SCJP 1.6 with 78%

and also very many thanks to Devaka for his exam lab.. a fellow Sri Lankan..

[Devaka Cooray]

You're welcome Suranga

[Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne]

Just to make it all clear guys... ive tried both Whizlabs and Examlab... and while both of them are on the same difficulty level I can most definitely say that both are much harder then the real exam......

[Tommi Vd]

Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne wrote:oh Yeah... whiz labs is much much harder

i tried the damn thig and the marks i got from it were so low that i almost commited suicide.. but then two weeks later i passed SCJP 1.6 with 78%

and also very many thanks to Devaka for his exam lab.. a fellow Sri Lankan..

2 weeks.... I'v studied now for 2 weeks and im having a score of 64% on the two exams from the cdrom from the book...
And apparantly those questions are also harder then the real exam, so my chances are good at the moment right?

[Sabeena Surendran]

I passed the SCJP 6 exam yesterday.
I had only 2 weeks to prepare too.
For the most part, I used the Kathy Sierra book, and the Examlab software.

The ExamLab software is great and makes for excellent practice, the GUI is very similar to the real exam.
I was getting around 60s in the Examlab version, and I was very very worried! But the real exam is a lot easier, I got a 93%.

Thanks a lot Devaka.
I had almost decided to buy the Whizlabs package, when I ran across this forum thread and decided to try ExamLab instead.
I will definitely make a donation to your site, this thing is just too good to be free!

[Nitish Bangera]

Great sabeena congrats.....Well on the exam lab and other mocks i am also sailing in the same boat of 65s...Well i hope i real get the boost in the real exam.

[Tommi Vd]

But if you do the exams on examlab over and over again, you know the questions by then and it isn't very hard to pass then...
same with the exams on the cdrom of the book...

On my first try for the exams on the cdrom i had 64%, so if these questions were harder then on those on the real exam i should pass right?

[Nitish Bangera]

Well when it comes to SCJP...there isn't much question on hardness is it....its tricky. I make mistakes in like not false and true or everything was ok but the import statement missed a static. So when a program is the same that you saw in the mock but there will be slight differences in the program which will make the output to something else. Well about masterexam i prefer doing the 75 question Quiz with open book as it gives out the answers after i answer the question. Well as the masterexam doesn't let you review the answer...i kind off don't like it. Well in the quiz i tend be true to myself even if the answer is wrong so you can check the answer and understand why it was wrong. Also the multiple choice in the masterexam doesn't give out the the number of choices which is irritating and also very helpful. All to all these mocks are really good.

[Lucas Smith]

You can review the question after MasterExam. You have to print the review to the file

[Nitish Bangera]

Oh is it.... well din't know about it. Well i prefer going on with the 75 questions as we come to know at that time only what went wrong. btw when are you giving the certification lukas?

[Tommi Vd]

I checked the sun website this morning, it says that you have to get 58%?? With total of 60 questions? Is it right?

[Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne]

not for 1.6 .. for 1.6 you need 66% with 60 questions.. i think you are referring to 1.5 scjp.....

[Tommi Vd]

nop the sun site says 58% for java 6...

SCJP java 6

you see? 35 questions out of 60