60 Questions!

[Billy Vandory]

I took the SCJP exam today and I was surprised to see it only had 60 questions / 58% to pass. All the literature I had read indicated it was a 72 questions / 65% pass. I am in Canada, is this different than the US version ?

Thanks,

Billy

[Larry Chung]

I heard that the exam length had been changed for some time. I also took the SCJP exam today but in the U.S.A. and it had 60 questions.

[Ganesh Dhakshinamurthy]

I'm going to appear for SCJP6 upgrade exam. Is there is a change in the number of questions for upgrade exam too?

[Anupam Jain]

yeah the exam length and duration have both been changed... and the update can be found on the website of SUN (Oracle-SUN now) Now the exam is of 180 min. (3 hrs) with 60 questions. I took the exam in December, 09 and it was same for me too.

[Ankit Garg]

The number of questions changed quite some time ago. Always check the objectives before you go into the exam. That way you know how many questions you'll get in the exam...

[Lotary Li]

I took the exam today. 60 questions in 3 hours.

[Bakul Bg]

Do you know if anything else is also changed... like difficulty level, format of questions, exam topics etc.

[Ankit Garg]

The objectives have been changed a little, like serialization has been removed. So study only the objectives mentioned on Sun/Oracle's site and you can safely skip the topics in your book which are not in the official objectives now...

[Bakul Bg]

I ran diff with objectives in Khalid book and found following 3 objectives are removed:

* Develop code that declares both static and non-static methods, and—if appropriate—use method names that adhere to the JavaBeans naming standards. Also develop code that declares and uses a variable-length argument list.
* Develop code that serializes and/or de-serializes objects using the following APIs from java.io: DataInputStream, DataOutputStream, FileInputStream, FileOutputStream, ObjectInputStream, ObjectOutputStream and Serializable.
* Given a scenario, write code that makes appropriate use of wait, notify, or notify-All.