Thanks a Lot.
I didnt pass with a great score ( 72%) , however I was very confident about
EJB and
JSF and I scored about 69% in those. I was least confident about legacy
connectivity and scored 100%.
It was a quite a jouney preparing for this exam. I was trying to read material all over the map which was waste of time and effort in the end
following material really helped :-
1. gof : every post I saw mentioned reading this book, so I bought this book and start reading and found it a very heavy read and dropped it after third chapter, it may be a great book but in my opinion it expressed things in the most complicated way.
I know its hard to believe that I didnt read this book
2. Head first design patter: I just loved this book, it was very conceptual and important aspects of the
pattern were repeated, and infact after reading this book I was very confident about design patters ( I had no previous experience about design patterns)
3. core J2ee patters : this is good book and read it twice and few questions came from this book
4. ejb3 in action : very good book will help you understand everything about ejb3
5. head first ejb ( for ejb2) : only read first few chapters to understand the previous version of ejb2.
6. core JSF : very good and easy read. I would suggest to read this book first before reading sun's Jee tuturial
7. Suns JEE tutrial : very important , dont need to go through the code etc, just need to get the concept.
7. Mark cade new book: most important chapter is architeture decomposition
8. Mark cade old book : read the chapters on security and protocols
9, Mock exams whilabs: these were good but as all say the actual questions were much difficult . But it will give you and idea and some practice. Infact in the real exam I ran out of time.
I would really need help for part 2 and 3.
thanks
Raj