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passed yesterday the ocajp 1ZO-808 with 81%

 
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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.
 
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hi Albert,

Congratulations, and welcome to the ranch!

Great first post, enjoy a cow!
 
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Congratulations on passing, Albert! Glad to know our simulator was helpful in your preparation.

For 809, I will suggest you to first go through a good book that is specifically meant for the exam thoroughly before attempting mock exams. Also, if you score too low on the first mock exam, do not immediate try to take the next mock exam in the hope of improving your score. But first read the explanations provided with the questions and go through the topics in which you scored less from the book. Write test programs to make sure you are comfortable with the concepts. Only after that, take the next exam. If you follow this process, your score will definitely continue increasing in the subsequent mock tests and you will not be stressed too much during the real exam.

All the best!
Paul.

 
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Thanks a lot Paul and Piet for the wishes, the cow and the study advises.
In fact it's true on the first round I did not write enough test-programs. Later in January / February I wrote lots of them.
In the same time I "hard coded" the java rules in my brain.
There again your explanations like the exception pdf or the key-points on lambdas, datetime-Api, ... were great.
 
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