Dave Gough

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I was surprised to see 3 questions on ejb/resource-related deployment-descriptor elements, which I thought were not covered in the exam and 4 questions on Design patterns (not my best subject - I'm still confused between ServiceLocator and BusinessDelegate )

There were also 3 questions on classic tags but none on SimpleTags.

I was also believed you only had to get 59% (that's what it stated on Sun's site) so I was a little suprised to see 62% as the passing score on the final print-out. Has the exam format changed recently?

Anyway, I passed, despite being a bit out of date and that's the main thing, now time for some before

regards,


Dave

PS: I used HFJS, jsp/servlet specs , this forum (many thanks!) and lots of mocke exams to fill in gaps,
Hi Anand,

I took about 2-3 months to do this from scratch (ie no experience of EJBs) using

  • Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 (OReilly - Burke, Monson-Haefel)
  • Beginning EJB 3 Application Development (Apress - Kodali, Wetherbee)
  • EJB 3.0 Specs
  • EPractice exams from Sun (GB-WGS-PREX-J091C)



  • I found the practice exams the most helpful, though a bit expensive. They were definitely worth it as they give you an idea of the kind of questions and also where you have gaps.

    I must admit I found it hard. I failed the two test exams with 50% and 49%, but I went throug each question and checked against the spec and made notes. The test exams give you references in the various EJB specs where you can find more information - they are a little bit out of date though as the spec has changed since they wrote these exams - so you have to hunt around sometimes.

    When I took the exam, I made sure I marked every question I had doubts about, and had an hour to go at the end where I reviewed all 30 o the ones I had doubts about. When I went through these again reading the questions VERY carefully.

    Anyway, all the best with your studies,

    Dave
    I used:
  • Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 (OReilly - Burke, Monson-Haefel)
  • Beginning EJB 3 Application Development (Apress - Kodali, Wetherbee)
  • EJB 3.0 Specs
  • EPractice exams from Sun (GB-WGS-PREX-J091C)


  • I haven't got much experience in EJB 3.0, so found it hard. I even failed my two practice exams (50% and 49% - second one was only 2 days before the real exam) But I found the practive exams invaluable, though a bit expensive at �40 for two.

    I am glad it is all over, took about 2 months of reading start to finish, time to party now:
    16 years ago