Yabba dabba dooo - passed it with 81% !!!
(Strange: I answered 56.7 questions out of 70 correctly?! - How comes the 0.7 ?)
I just want to encourage all students struggling with that.
I'm quite ashamed about the time it took me to finish with that basic stuff.
I started reading OCA
Java SE 8 Programmer I Study Guide (Exam 1Z0-808) (Oracle Press) allready in August 2017. And finished the examn on 5. of march 2017.
In fact the book was much easier to read than I thought, but I felt the questions and exercices somehow to easy.
So I took me the enthuware
test and was quite shocked.
From foundation test (9.9.) to test3 (19.9.) I finished with something between 50% and 60%.
So I repeated them always shortly after the failed essay. Which did'nt help so much for the next one.
test4 I managed then with 71% and hoped, that I finally got the clue.
But test5 I failed with only 46%!!!
So there I stopped took holidays and looked again what I was doing wrong.
I took the objective-wise tests and started to search compiler rules to the missed questions in my old java 6 book from Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates.
Memorizing them and rechecking the objective tests I slowly came out of my misery.
I found, that in the old study guide there where much more lists, backgrounds and Schemata than in the new one.
The Java 8 additions I learned from the Enthuware explanations.
On January 23. I restarted the foundation test and this time I made it. So I went again through the big tests.
I missed test2 and test3 again but with more than 60% - so I remained quite confident and memorized some more java rules and api methods.
From test4 to the last day test I was over 70% and on the morning of the test I revised my assembled short - scripts.
The real test was than not so hard to stand and I finished 20 minutes before the end.
My Conclusion:
- For the 1ZO-809 I will buy the enthuware test at the beginning.
- I saw, that there are new books now from Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates. I will go straight to that.
- To think like a compiler/runtime I won't try to get a feeling of java but to embrace the machine-mechanics.
- Again I won't give up, when I get blocked anywhere.
- I try to get me a week from my boss to concentrate on learning.
What I don't know yet is: how to get again the patience of my wife and my son. ;-)
Any other tips are welcome.
Much of endurance and good luck to all which are fighting with that test as well.