Ravindra Akella

Thank you john.
As far as I know, the only way to prepare for BEA certification is read edocs.I have followed the study guide provided by BEA. the actual exam covers the topics as mentioned in the bea certification page. also do it practically as much as possible(about 60% questions need practical experience).I dont think there is any book for the certification exam. no information on the internet either.
make sure you are very comfortable with workshop before writing the test.
The exams covers BEA portal 8.1 SP2. dont have to worry about things like WSRP(sp3/sp4).
good luck

Hi everybody,
I have passed the BEA Certified Developer for Portal Solutions Exam.I could score only 69%.I have refered to the study guide provided by BEA for portal solutions.Just reading may not help to pass the exam, but you should have development experience on most of the concepts in the portal framework. There were some questions on tags/attributes that are "rarely" used in practice.covers the "Data Project" of the framework in depth.I could not find any mock exams for this exams anywhere.

Hi,
What are the best available Open Source/Free LDAP servers for windows platform. I have to integrate BEA 8.1 with an external LDAP server instead of internal BEA LDAP.
Thanks.

Hi,
What are the best available Open Source/Free LDAP servers for windows platform. I have to integrate BEA 8.1 with an external LDAP server instead of internal BEA LDAP.
Thanks.

Thanks Jeanne.

Thanks Santosh,
It took about 4 weeks for me. 3-5 hrs per day during the weekdays after work.could not spend time on the weekends as I have other things to do.I followed HFE book and also refered to the ejb 2.0 spec.I Practiced the questions on ejbcertificate.com. I also had practical expereince with EJBs.If you spend enough time then march sould be Ok.

Good Luck!!!

Hi,
Can somebody please point me to articles/tutorials that discuss best practices and guidelines for data modelling?
Thanks.

Hi,
I passed SCBCD with 90% today.
Kathy and Bert, Thanks so much for writing such a wonderful book. It was very helpful.
Valentin, Thanks for the cheat sheets.They were very helpful in the last few hours of preparation.
Thanks to all the members of Javaranch and Mikalai for his notes.
The HFE book's Final mock exam(I scored 82%) is very close to the real exam. ejbcertificate is a very good practice.