OCP Java SE 6 Programmer Practice Exams (Exam 310-065) (Certification Press) [Paperback]

Bert Bates (Author), Katherine Sierra (Author)

Book Description

Release date: November 11, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0072260882 | ISBN-13: 978-0072260885 | Edition: 1

Don't Let the Real Test Be Your First Test!

Written by two of the lead developers of the Java SE Programmer Exam, OCP Java SE 6 Programmer Practice Exams is filled with more than 260 realistic practice questions to prepare you for this challenging exam. To help you understand this material, in-depth explanations of both the correct and incorrect answers are included for every question. This practical guide covers all official objectives for Exam 310-065 and is the perfect companion to SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide.

Covers all OCP Java SE 6 Programmer exam topics, including:

• Declarations and Access Control
• Object Orientation
• Assignments
• Operators
• Flow Control, Exceptions, and Assertions
• Strings, I/O, Formatting, and Parsing
• Generics and Collections
• Inner Classes
• Threads
• Development

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About the Author

Bert Bates, SCJP, was a lead developer of the SCJP and SCWCD exams for Sun. He is the coauthor, with Kathy Sierra, of SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide.

Kathy Sierra, SCJP, was a lead developer of the SCJP exam and the SCWCD exam. She was also a certified Sun Java instructor and is the founder of the world's largest Java certification website, javaranch.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (November 11, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072260882
• ISBN-13: 978-0072260885
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars [Kindle version] Awful formatting code, useless for studying, buy the paperback format December 19, 2010

By Fran Moreno

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I love the quality of McGraw Hills books and specially the ones to prepare the Java Certify exams. I'm also a Kindle user with very good experiences reading books in Kindle versions.

But this one is completely useless. As you may know, Kindle books are actually a kind of HTML code (with labels like: '<'html'>', '<'body'>', '<'p'>', etc.). Well, Java ALSO use these kind of labels for its GENERIC parameters, so when you open this book in Kindle version you lose every generic argument (and there are a lot of them in the exams) because the book reader thinks they are HTML labels and don't show them.
This problem also affects to EVERY comparation expression which uses the characters ">" or "<" or ">=" or "<="...

So, as you can check in the Free Sample here in Amazon, in the question 9 of the Assestment Test 1, you can find a code fragment like this:

6. List c0 = new List();
7. List c1 = new ArrayList();
8. List c2 = new ArrayList();
9. List c3 = new ArrayList();
10. List c4 = new ArrayList();
11. ArrayList c5 = new ArrayList();

Where lines 7,8,9 and 10 supposedly are different, and you don't see it but all of those lines are actually using generic parameters
Big joke that Amazon is selling this as an exams book. I regret so much of buying this version. I'll try to get Amazon correct the book or give me a solution, because this is unacceptable.

UPDATE (2010-12-20): Amazon has contacted me and they will refund the money of the book. Anyway, I'll leave this reply here to let everyone who think on buying the Kindle version of the book know about this issue, and to encourage them to CHECK FIRST the free sample here in Amazon to see if they have already fixed it.

Thanks so much to Amazon and their quick response and to the author who paid attention on this the same moment I wrote it.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars lots and lots of hard practice questions December 5, 2010

By Jeanne Boyarsky

Format:Paperback

Disclosure: I was one of the tech reviewers of this book so I'm probably biased. I'm reviewing it anyway and saying *why* I liked things.

1) Lots of questions
2) Clear explanations
3) Advice on how to study
4) Similar looking problems that test different things so your brain doesn't memorize "the answer is 'a' as fast"
5) Harder questions than are on the test and a mapping to to how it would relate to an actual score.

Note this is not like the thick SCJP book that is a study guide to the exam. This book is virtually all practice exams.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculously difficult compared to actual exam October 16, 2012

By Melanie J. Drake

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I studied for the SCJP (OCJP) test for more than a year (on and off). I started with the SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Exam 310-065 book, which was helpful. Once I finished, I felt that I needed more exam questions before taking the real exam, so I purchased this exams book. My exam scores (for the exams in this book) tracked at around 20-40% correct. Toward the end, I think I scored about 50%. According to this book, with such scores, I wasn't close to being ready to take the real exam. For this reason, I rescheduled the exam several times and I continued to study. The book told me I wasn't ready, right?

I finally got the courage to take the real exam. (My test voucher was about to expire, so I didn't have much choice.) The actual exam is *worlds* easier than the exams in this book. I scored an 83% on the real exam, but according to this book, I wasn't close to being ready to take it. I finished the exam with 45 minutes to spare, after several rounds of review. As another reviewer stated, there are fewer options for each question and the number of correct answers for each question is stated in the real exam. This makes the questions much easier! On top of that, the questions were more obvious. (Sure, there were tricky things thrown in (e.g., final and static modifiers) here and there.) To be fair, the book states that the questions are more difficult than those on the actual exam.

So, yes, the exams book did inform me of some exam 'gotchas'. It also scared me so much that I almost didn't take the exam. I would have preferred a book that was representative of the actual exam.