Dear Icaro,
Icaro Dourado wrote:
Your path to succeed it was great although I am convinced it was a bit hard, wasn´t it?
Every certification has a cost in terms of time, effort, preparation, books, mocks and so forth. The important thing to remember is that once certified, we feel satisfied because we get rewarded for our effort.
Icaro Dourado wrote:
I am planning to pass this same exam but I won´t have so much time to perform it.
Since you´ve got this great 100% score, I´d like to ask you some opinion on how everybody else could achieve around 80% without much previous experience (my actual desire)
I think this certification is not so hard, we’re not reinventing the wheel, or going on instinct. A lot concerning this certification has been discussed on this forum. So, we get solid and sufficient feedback to organize our preparation, and to adapt it depending on our goals for this certification.
Based on my experience, here are some suggestions and key points (it’ not a ready-made solution) that may allow everybody to secure a descent score in this certification and at the same time avoid to spend more time than needed.
I- Remember
- Be motivated AND TAKE YOUR TIME to understand the concepts.
- Try to memorize the concepts by DOING (write lot of code).
- Identify your weak points and study them again and again.
II- Books
- EJB3 in Action.
- OReilly Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0.
- For security, transactions and exceptions I would recommend HF EJB(even though it is for the old certification).
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II Tutorials
- Mikalai Zaikin's SCBCD 5.0 Guide.
IV Mocks
- Enthuware.
Very helpful and pretty close to the real exam.
Don’t forget to spend lot of time on reading and understanding the explanations and looking in depth the answers to the question which you answered wrong.
You have an indicator average Scores of the users of EJB+ V5* here :
http://www.enthuware.com/index.php/ocbcd-15-score-comparison
v Random Tips :
- The exam wasn’t so tough.
- For me the questions were distributed over objectives.
- I’ve got two drag and drop questions (very easy).
- Time is more than enough.
- No ambiguous questions.
- If you don’t know the answer to a question, try to narrow down the options to one or two possible answers before selecting the answer.
- There are many straightforward questions in the exam for which you immediately know the right answer.
Hope it will help you!
Study Hard and Good Luck!
Best Regards.
Youcef Saidani