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OCP Java Study Guide question

 
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To the authors: I did the certification for the associate level a few years ago, in java 7. I prepared myself with a similar book and had a great score.
But even though I scored well, I found that the exam questions were quite harder than the questions on the book. What steps did you take when writing your book to ensure that the mock exams (which I'm assuming are in the book) are as close as possible to the actual exams?
 
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We were fortunate to work with both Sun and Oracle in the creation of many of the Java certification exams. So we have a very, very clear sense of the nature of the questions on the real exam. We try to match the real exam as closely as we can and then we add an extra level of difficulty by usually not telling you how many answers are correct. We hope that our questions are mostly a little bit harder than the ones on the real exam.
 
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Bert Bates wrote: So we have a very, very clear sense of the nature of the questions on the real exam


Bert, i'm interested in knowing your opinion, should we feel peace of mind in the OCP java 8 exam that the tricks related to OCA will not be found ??? for example missing semicolon or operator precedence or incompatible types in ternary operator etc. OR should we expect in the same time we've focused on the OCP tricks that the actual trick in the question is related to OCA ???


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