[SCJP 6]
Deepak Chand wrote:Hi there,
This is my first post on this forum. I plan on studying for the SCJP 6 exam. However, I have the Kathy and Bert SCJP study guide and Head First Java books for the 310-055 (SCJP 5) exam that I purchased more than an year ago. Can I still leverage these books or is it advisable for me to sell these on Amazon and purchase the new edition?
Thanks for your help.
Deepak
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Bert Bates wrote:Hi Guys,
We've got some news from Sun concerning recent changes to the SCJP exam.
First a little background about how Sun ALWAYS administers their certification exams:
All of Sun's exams go through rigorous processes during their creation, AND during their "live" lifetime. First off, the exam's objectives are created and verified. Next, new questions are created using an iterative creation / review / beta test / modification cycle. Once questions have gone "live" their performance is also monitored. Sun checks to see if the questions become too easy or too hard over time, or if questions cause too much confusion. When Sun determines that certain questions aren't performing well in the field, those questions are either fixed and retested, or they are retired.
Finally, Sun wants their certification exams to be challenging. They don't publish their targeted "candidate success" goals, but our assumption is that they want a certain percentage of candidates to pass, and that means a certain percentage will fail. Whatever their formula is, it appears that they want those percentages to stay fairly consistent over time (which makes a great deal of sense, and seems very fair). In other words, if there was a universal "difficulty" rating, and let's say the initial SCJP 6 exam had a difficulty rating of "7.6" (I'm totally making this up), then when they fix or retire questions they still want the resulting exam to have a difficulty rating of "7.6".
With all that said, what happened recently is that Sun determined that several questions and objectives weren't performing well in the field. Some questions were fixed, and some were retired. In order to maintain a consistent difficulty level, they changed some of the objectives, re-evaluated the remaining questions' difficulty levels, and came up with a new number of questions, and a new passing percentage.
But, long story short, Sun went through an extensive process to make sure that the revised exam is just as hard to pass as the older version - not easier, not harder.
hth,
Bert
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Hassan Khan wrote:Hi,
The SCJP exam is now under Pearson VUE. I just want to confirm if there are any changes in the exam format or something like that? I checked Oracle website. The number of questions are reduced to 60 and the passing percentage is 58.8%. I am not sure if the percentage was 65% before.
Any other changes? Can someone explain please?
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Hassan Khan wrote:Hi,
Yes! I booked the exam and paid £202 + £42 VAT i.e. £242 in total.
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Sneha Bharti wrote:I am going to appear for SCJP 6.
Is Kethy & sierra is sufficient?
wat else do i need to study?
Regards,
Radhakrishna
Andrew Ivanov wrote:Hi Bert,
I found a mistake in SCJP Certified Java Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide.
page 281
Correct answers A and B.. But, it even will not compile , it doesn't contain getBidValue method ..
Regards,
Radhakrishna
radhakrishna sharma gorenta wrote:
Andrew Ivanov wrote:Hi Bert,
I found a mistake in SCJP Certified Java Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide.
page 281
Correct answers A and B.. But, it even will not compile , it doesn't contain getBidValue method ..
Hi Andrew,
Don't apply your own assumptions. That program is correct. And the answer is D. Because of that line an error occurred at the line where getBidValue() method is there.
In the exam also we have to think from the examiner point of view but not in ours. I hope you got my point.![]()
Good luck for yourself.
Regards,
Radhakrishna
saurabh nitrrr wrote:Please tell me all the valid ID proof for the exam...I also want to know whether Voter id and PAN card is sufficient....
Tahnks and Regards,
Neha
Hassan Khan wrote:
Hassan Khan wrote:Hi,
Yes! I booked the exam and paid £202 + £42 VAT i.e. £242 in total.
It is actually £202 + £40 VAT i.e. £242 in total.
Neha Rane wrote:Hi,
Recently i received a call from private coaching classes, saying, SCJP exam going to change, it's pattern etc.,
It is going to become Oracle certification, this is understood, but they also mentioned, that, you have to complete one training before that, then only you can appear for exam.
And this is going to be mandatory from 1st Oct 2011.
Do any one have any idea about it?
Thanks,
Neha Rane.
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