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I score a 73 then 76 on the pre-assessment test. I read over half of Larman's book then went to retake the pre-assessment test and scored 60%. Ouch. I did much better when I was using intuition.
Some of the questions are well explained on the test. I wish I had a better resource like a cert guide... or answers to see houw I'm doing.
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Hi David,
I am also struggling like you.I have just started with Larman's book.Although, I donot find things very complicated, but still I am wondering, how good I would be in the actual test.
Any benchmarks, before going for the "real-stuff" would be wonderful.
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  1. Sun Certified Java Programmer Scored 93 per cent
  2. Oracle JDeveloper Rel. 3.0 - Develop Database Applications with Java Scored 56 out of 59
  3. IBM Enterprise Connectivity with J2EE Scored 72 per cent
  4. Enterprise Development on the Oracle Internet Platform Scored 44 out of 56
 
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I feel like I know most of the concepts, but sometimes don't know what they are asking. With the Java2 test you could look at a question and say:
Oh, they want to see if I know how a thread will behave given the situation...
but in this exam, it's more like:
Are they asking if concepts become classes or if the specific concept will be assigned this specific behavior in design?
The question intent is difficult for me to deal with, I usually need to know what they're looking for, then it's no problem.


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David,
That is right.I think SCJP is a very easy compared to the other tests I have taken.The most challenging test for me so far is "IBM Enterprise Connectivity with J2EE", where the questions were of the pattern, in which they assume that you know all the technolgies and you could suggest which one is the BEST or which is not the BEST.It requires lot of application of mind, if you need to get it right.I suppose, the same is true with the IBM Test 486.


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  1. Sun Certified Java Programmer Scored 93 per cent
  2. Oracle JDeveloper Rel. 3.0 - Develop Database Applications with Java Scored 56 out of 59
  3. IBM Enterprise Connectivity with J2EE Scored 72 per cent
  4. Enterprise Development on the Oracle Internet Platform Scored 44 out of 56
 
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I agree, I think the SCJP2 was only hard if you didn't know the material. Once the material is known, the questions are very straight foward.
I just took the IBM pre-assessment again and got an 80%, so I'm feeling a little better. Once I'm done with Larman's book I think I'll be better off. One thing I've learned is to take advice about what answers are correct very sceptically. A lot of people are offering advice, but don't know what the test is like.

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The Best way to read Larman's book is to practics it
we are not going to get far with just reading the book .
this is what i am doing i have come up with a hypothetical project for myself. and after reading each of larmans chapter i am trying to repeat something similar with my project and i expect that at the end of everything i will be well versed in using ooad and applying UML to it .
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I do the same. I typically read the book front to back, then walk through it a second time practicing with a fake project.
Even though it's a great book I've found a couple of item to be incorrect or I miss-interpreted, I wonder if anyone noticed.
The only one that really bothered me was:
In the Iteration 2 design phase for the Payment classes he uses polymorphism GRASP pattern to define a common interface, but if you look at the collaboration diagrams, the methods take different arguments and the interfaces are disparate.
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