Can someone priotirize the topics for SCJP 1.6 ?

[binnu yadav]

Hi All,

Can someone prioritize the topics/exam objectives on SCJP1.6 ?

Like which topic we need to study hard,which topic we can take lightly....do al the objectives are covered in the exam or its just like random ?
If I am finding GC/Serialization/DateTime topics a bit annoying/timeconusming.can I skip them ?

Any guidance related to this would be a great help to me...

Thanks

Arun Yadav

[Neha Daga]

you should not take any topic lightly, every topic is important. As questions come from a pool its not neccessary that you will get more questions from 1 particular topic and less from some other.
As for serialization its no more a part of the exam so if you want you can skip it.
OOPs, API content, generics and thread are some of the most important topics of exam but again, as I said dont skip anything as you can get questions on any topic.
Like I got only 1 question from GC but someone I know got about 5 .

[binnu yadav]

Thanks a lot Neha for your prompt reply.........Serialization is still the included in the book of SCJP1.6

[Neha Daga]

Its included but now its not in the exam. check exam objectives on sun's website.

[Jeevan Reddy]

Yeah, Serialization is no longer part of SCJP examination.

[Henry Wong]

Also, I am assuming that your goal is more than just get an SCJP cert -- maybe to do professional work in Java?

As detailed as the SCJP is, the are topics that it doesn't cover in detail, such as regex (an API that any developer worth his/her salt will use greatly). If your goal is more than just the cert, not only shouldn't you take any SCJP topic lightly, but you shouldn't take any java topic lightly. After all, you are learning something that you will use.

Henry