Hi,
I just passed the
SCEA 5 upgrade exam today with 81%. I think the questions for this exam is from the same question bank as the SCEA 5 part 1 exam (310-052), but there are only 48 questions and the time limit is 2 hours.
For preparation, I used the Sun JEE5 tutorial and the 2nd edition of Mark Cade's SCEA Study guide. Mark Cade's 2nd edition book which is targeting the SCEA 5 exam is not published yet, but I purchased the "rough cut" version from safari.oreilly.com. I would add that I have been working with
JEE web applications (including
JSF) and Spring/ORM/Hibernate/JPA, and have also used JMS/MDB and session EJB in the past. I also purchased Whizlabs SCEA 5 mock exams a few days ago as I couldn't find enough free mock questions on the internet. I find the whizlabs mock exam totally unhelpful - some of the questions/answers don't make sense and it appears they quickly adapted them from an earlier version of the SCEA exam. The $99 price is definitely not worth it - save your money and get Mark Cade's 2nd edition book as it contains about 40 mock questions, and it serves as a very good summary. There are also 10 free questions from Sun's epractice labs.
Rgds
Tan Wee
SCJP, SCWCD, SCBCD, SCEA (the previous version), SCEA 5 (Part 1)