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Java 1.1 Certification Study Guide

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I read this book pretty well for the Java exam but after the exam found that it did not meet the objectives of the exam fully. Of course, I passed the exam but I would suggest that this book should be just ONE of the many things that you should read for the exam. There are lot of mock exams on the web which reflect the REAL test better. Also, the website javacert.com has a big discussion forum and links to other sites related to Java Certification. Felt let down by the fact that the test engine included in the book happened to be the same questions from the exercises. The authors should definitely have put more effort in building a better test engine.

The strategy I used to prepare for the SCJP exam was to useRoberts and Heller guide as a study guide. It has 142 samplequestions. I found it to be a very good guide having good representative questions.

I used Boone's guide (Java 1.1 Certification Exam Guide) for its sample tests. It has two sample 70 question tests and 119 review questions. The strategy I used was to take several practice tests after studing the guide.

Unfortunately, there are too many errors in Boone's book. Check the errata, but I still found it to be lacking. The wording of Boone's questions were sometimes ambiguous.

I found the questions in Roberts and Heller to be much more precise. For sample tests, there are many available on the Web.

I recommend the Roberts and Heller book, but I suggest checking the web for Mock tests rather than using Boone's Certification book.

BTW, I passed the SCJP test on the first try.

This book is requisite for anyone who want to clear certication.The advantage to the readers of this book is that every topic discussed is to the point.there are certain objective like "is a" "has a" relationships among classes is left out in this book. The authors of this book has precise knowlwdge of pattern of examination. In all a must for java certifcation aspirant

I studied this book to complement my knowledge of java for java 1.1 exam. The objectives are served well and the book is nice to study. I particularly liked the discussion on Layouts and language fundamentals.... Though this book is good but the real exam covers more like reading from sockets, number conversion etc. Hope this helps!

Some of the certification themes r missing like GridBagLayou

Its an excellent book to prepare for the certification exam . The book covers all the topics for the exam and gives much more information than you need for the exam. After going through it I felt more comfortable with the Java basics and confident to take the exam. I cleared the exam on 30th of september.

The fundamentals and Inner working of Java are explained very nicely. This book was the only book resource I used to study for the Exam. I passed the first time writing it.

I studied approximately 2.5 weeks for the exam. The internet has good websites which helped alot by giving mock exams and tests (which are quite similar to the real exam).

Don't let this book lull you into a false sense of security! A friend and I recently took the test after having studied this book and being able to pass its exam with scores of 95-100%. He failed; I passed by a small margin. This book is excellent and you will need it to pass the exam but it is weak in several areas. When you take the test, you get a print out of how well you did in each area. We correlated ours and rated how well the book covers exam areas. This is the result:

1. Language Fundamentals.................good

2. Operations & Assignments..............good

3. Declarations & Access Control.........poor

4. Flow Control & Exception Handling.....fair

5. Overloading, Overriding, Runtime Type, & Object Orientation..................poor

6. Misc. (don't know what this is).......poor

7. Threads...............................good

8. java.lang package.....................poor

9. java.awt: Components & Facilities.....good

10. java.awt: Layout......................good

11. java.awt: Event Handling..............fair

12. java.awt: Painting....................good

13. java.io package.......................poor

The books starts out strong but gets a little spotty later on. You will definately need it to get used to the type of question that the exam asks. It is a very tricky test. You must pay close attention and if you are unsure of yourself, you can easily get suckered into a wrong answer. This is expecially true on the multiple choice questions where you don't necesarily choose one answer, you choose all answers that apply. Get any part of it wrong and you get zero credit for the whole question.

If you are preparing for JCP examination, go for this book. The concepts are very clearly stated in an easily understandable language. It is worth buying !

This book by simon roberts is a very fine book which helps even the beginners who are new to the language understand the concepts very clearly. I would even say that this is the best book for all those who want to take the JCP exam.Finally I would like to cong'late simon and philip for writing such a splendid book.