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

Bert Bates (Author), Katherine Sierra (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072260882 | ISBN-13: 978-0072260885 | Publication Date: November 11, 2010 | 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: 9 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 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

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Fran Moreno - See all my reviews

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This review is from: OCP Java SE 6 Programmer Practice Exams (Exam 310-065): Exam 310-055 (Certification Press) (Kindle Edition)

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.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

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

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Jeanne Boyarsky (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: OCP Java SE 6 Programmer Practice Exams (Exam 310-065) (Certification Press) (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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect study companion, January 13, 2011

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C. Simons "cs" (Chantilly, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: OCP Java SE 6 Programmer Practice Exams (Exam 310-065) (Certification Press) (Paperback)

There is no doubt that studying for the OCJP is a difficult task for most of us. The authors of this exam prep companion say it upfront, you must study, take practice exams, and write plenty of code in order to be prepared for the exam.

The OCJP practice exam guide is a perfect study companion; there are many questions that specifically target the types of topics you will find on the exam. The answers will provide the information you need to learn from your mistakes and become better prepared for the real exam.

I highly recommend this guide.