Preparing for 1Z0-817

[Siva Krishna]

Hello Jeanne Boyarsky & Scott Selikoff,

First of all Thank you for your book "OCP: Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 8 Programmer II Study Guide".  Without this book I wouldn't have cleared my OCP 8 exam.

Congratulations and Thank you for writing OCP Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 11 Programmer.

Recently I started looking in to 1Z0-817 objectives and realized that it covers many of Java 8 topics too.  Couple of months ago I donated my OCP 8 book to local library as I already passed my exam.
Is the new book "OCP Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 11 Programmer I Study Guide" sufficient to prepare for 1Z0-817 exam?

Please let me know.  Thanks in advance!

Regards
Siva Kalagarla

[Scott Selikoff]

There are some chapters in our first book that will help you on the upgrade exam.  For example, 1Z0-817 exam contains the module objectives of both 1Z0-815 and 1Z0-816.  So reading the modules chapter in our 1Z0-815 book will help with half of the module objectives for the 1Z0-817 exam.  Same with our chapter that covered var in the first book.

That said, there's a lot of things that are not covered (annotations, security, module services, module migration) so you might want to wait for our second book to come out.