Roel De Nijs wrote:Duration: 120 minutes
Number of Questions: 70
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gabriele mannocci wrote:It's a bad thing!!
With previous version I usually did 90% and today morning with my surprise I had to do new verson! In my opinion it's more difficult and there isn't enough time to do that...
gabriele mannocci wrote:It's a bad thing!!
Andrew Remil wrote:Where did you get a new version?
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gabriele mannocci wrote:i found questions a little more complex. After all, if the passing score now it's lower means somenthing.
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Roel De Nijs wrote:
gabriele mannocci wrote:It's a bad thing!!
First of all a warm welcome to the CodeRanch!
Honestly I don't agree. I was really not happy when they changed the passing score from 77% to only 63%. Such a change makes the certification less valuable. This certification exam is about the sheer basics of the Java language, so a very good understanding is required. If have a good solid knowledge about the topics, this change should not make any difference at all. The average time you have per question was 100 seconds, now it is 102.85 seconds. So you even have a little bit more time per questi
on.
Roel De Nijs wrote:
gabriele mannocci wrote:i found questions a little more complex. After all, if the passing score now it's lower means somenthing.
The passing score was already decreased in the beginning of this year. This time only the number of questions and the duration were changed.
gabriele mannocci wrote:Hi Peter,
in fact I left 7-8 questions incomplete....Fortunally, I passed the exam with 65% but i guarantee i was all times around 92% with the old way...
Peter Cong wrote:I think these new 70 questions are more dificulty than before, you can not even finish them in the given time in the exam.
Sergej Smoljanov wrote:gabriele mannocci what materials you use to prepare?
Roel De Nijs wrote:
Peter Cong wrote:I think these new 70 questions are more dificulty than before, you can not even finish them in the given time in the exam.
Did you already take the exam before this recent change? Or what's the basis for your conclusion?
Peter Cong wrote:Yes, I took the exam a week ago, and it was failed, that was my first exam with 70 questions, I have never taken any exam before. I practice some mock exams from internet with 90 questions, but not help too much.
Peter Cong wrote:I appreciate if you can give me some suggestions , resouces and materials in order to pass the new updated exam which is 70 question. thanks in advance.
Sergej Smoljanov wrote:gabriele mannocci what materials you use to prepare? What was you experience in java?
Satya D Prasad wrote:Folks,
To those who have given the OCAJP 7 with 70 questions pattern, please let us know the overall difficulty of it.
Roel De Nijs wrote:
Peter Cong wrote:I think these new 70 questions are more dificulty than before, you can not even finish them in the given time in the exam.
Did you already take the exam before this recent change? Or what's the basis for your conclusion?
Guillermo Ishi wrote:P.S. I also concur with her that there were some very time consuming questions up front, which was discouraging. Later there seems to be brief pockets of easier questions like the old questions, but they don't last.
The exam already had a lot of questions that require you to read a piece of code and figure out what it does. There is no change in that. However, code fragments of some of the questions are now a bit longer. You will see about 10-15 questions with code spanning more than 20 lines but less than 25. The length of the code does not necessarily make them tougher but because it takes longer to just go through the whole code, that creates time pressure. The code snippets are well formatted and easy to read though.
You will find ambiguous questions and questions that have errors. For example, you may see questions on benefits of ArrayList over an array that require you to know whether an ArrayList consumes more or less memory than an array. There are questions with obvious compilation errors but do not have "Will not compile" as an option. There are questions that might be considered entirely out of syllabus. For example, you might see a reference to SQLException in a question or an option. A detailed knowledge of SQLException is not required to answer the such questions but you need to know that java.sql.SQLException is a checked exception. Same goes for java.io.IOException and java.io.FileNotFoundException.
The exam seems to contain questions distributed unevenly among exam objectives. You will get a lot of questions on loops and arrays. But the good thing is that they are not difficult...only time consuming. A worksheet would be very helpful in working out the loop variables to arrive at the answer.
Garbage collection has now been included in official exam objectives. However, only very few test takers have claimed to see one question on it.
Some candidates have reported getting questions that contained Integer wrapper class although the questions were not directly related to wrapper classes. No inner classes.
Overall, the exam has gotten a little tougher but only because of the time factor. The content is easy but you need to be able to work out the code faster otherwise you may run out of time.
We have updated our question bank to incorporate all these changes. You will build up the necessary speed by practising with our mock exams.
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good news.i think it is excellent !We have updated our question bank to incorporate all these changes.
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