Hariharan Raman

Congrats..!
Qadir,
https://coderanch.com/t/146991/po/certification/Cleared-Exam.
Please check here to see if you can find what you wanted.
Hari
[ May 18, 2003: Message edited by: Hariharan Raman ]

Hi,
You can find links to many materials and practice tests if you patiently browse through the posts in this forum. It should give an idea on how we have to prepare for the exam.
The following post might help you...
https://coderanch.com/t/146991/po/certification/Cleared-Exam
Skonnards XML quick Reference is also good book, but if you are a beginner, first see w3schools.com.
Professional XML 2nd ed. is good but is huge according to me. So, no comments on that.
Hope this helps in someway..
Hari.

Congrats pete..! Way to go..!

COngrats Stara..!

COngrats Ashik..!

Thanks everyone..!
Pradeep, I did not know that Boson's test is nothing but Whizlab's.It seemed to be good, but BOSON had only a download version and no CD-ROM was offered. So, I dropped the idea of getting one. Anyway, thanks for the info.
Hari.

Congrats Sirisha..!

Hi All,
I just passed the exam yesterday. Many thanks to all of you for I wouldn't have known the exact path to be followed for this exam, if this was't there.. And reg. the exam - it certainly wasn't easy as sample test (same as most of us felt). This test expects us to have sound knowledge on the subject (which would be possible only if we have hands-on) if you want to score 85 - 90% or more.(atleast I feel so). If you just study the materials with little bit of hands-on using XMLSpy (or any other s/w), you should be able to pass it.
I got few questions from IBM's sample test which is available on their website (ICE). So future aspirants - please practice two or three times this test for sure. Had many questions on XPATH, XSLT, XML schema, DTD. There were good number of questions on DOM/SAX too. 8-10 Scenario type questions (it wasn't very difficult). But without good amount of practice, few questions would really confuse us.
Preparation:
It took me around 45 days (over two months period) of preparation for this exam, I should say.
Materials -
1. As most of us did, I also followed Skonnard (ebook) as the main book for this exam. Its good but if you are a beginner, then I suggest you read the stuff from W3schools(its very easy to understand) and then go for Skonnard. (you can find this here).
2. Regularly visited this forum to find more information. This forum is indeed great source of information.
3. There are plenty of resources on the web. I couldn't read all of them but utilized few.
You could find them in this forum on many posts. or find all in one posts here -> https://coderanch.com/t/146991/po/certification/Cleared-Exam Vijay has done a great job of patiently mentioning the resources. Thanks Vijay..!
Practice tests
IBM Sample test, Skillometer, Witscale, PerfectXML's XML/XSLT quiz, Boson's practice test (download - you can find 20-24 questions in the free Demo version) and last but not the least the practice tests on our Javaranch's Mock tests page.
Thanks again and wish Good Luck for others who are preparaing for the exam..!
Regards,
Hari.

COngratdulations..!
Hari.

Vivek,
Thnaks a lot for mentioning the XPath Visualiser. It really has good amount of resources. Hope you noticed the Quizzes sections on XML, DOM and XSLT on your right which is also good to test our basics.
Thanks again..!
Hari.

Congrats Vijay..! Thanks for the information you had posted..It looks really Great..!
Hari.

Thanks a lot Vivek..! I got everything right except for the last one - change in the instance document.. It works fine now..!
Hari.

Congrats Raj..!

Congradulation Vijay..! Thanks for the details you have provided.. it looks great..!
Hari.

Hi,
This is a lab given in Rogers ppt on XML schema. Its lab no. 6.
Current XSD contains the following.
<xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"/> <xsd:element name="image" type="imageType"/> <xsd:element name="description" type="xsd:string"/> <xsd:element name="warranty" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/> <xsd:element name="weight" type="xsd :-P ositiveInteger" minOccurs="0"/> <xsd:element name="cost" type="money" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> <xsd:element name="retailer" type="xsd:anyURI"/>
XML source file structure is:
<juicers> <juicer> <name> <image> <description> <warranty> <weight> <cost> <retailer> <juicer> <juicers>
The question is to separate the <description> and <warranty> element in the XSD to a new type called "appliance" and then use that to derive (by extension) another new type called "juicerappliance". Finally declare the <juicer> element to be of type "juicerappliance".
Now, the problem I having is
how do we use "derive by extension" for elements that are present in the middle of the sequence. The answer given in the lab also seems to be not working fine. I have seen examples where "derive by extension" is used to extend the type by appending elements to it..but not in the middle of the sequence.
If you have Rogers's labs, you can try lab 6 to see if it works for you in XMLSPY and let me know. I am trying to see if I am doing something wrong. Please help.
Thanks,
Hari.
[ February 09, 2003: Message edited by: Hariharan Raman ]