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Here is a revised and enhanced edition of the most revered Java certification guide, with in-depth coverage of the latest versions of the Java Programmer and Developer exams. Written by the people who actually created the exams for Sun, this insider's guide will prepare you to take these two hot exams with confidence. Sybex Study Guides are packed with exceptional study tools--hundreds of challenging review questions and electronic flashcards that help reinforce key topics, and real-world scenarios that offer perspectives and insights from seasoned professionals. The CD includes an advanced testing engine with hundreds of sample exam questions and the entire book in PDF.

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Here's the book you need to prepare for the Java 2 Programmer (SCJP) and Developer (SCJD) exams. This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today's certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that has earned Sybex the reputation as the leading publisher for certification self-study guides, this book provides:

In-depth coverage of every exam objective for the revised SCJP Exam

Hundreds of challenging practice questions

Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a test engine and the entire book on PDF

Authoritative instruction on all revised Programmer exam objectives, including:

Declarations, initialization and scoping

Flow control

API contents

Concurrency

Object-oriented concepts

Collections and generics

Language fundamentals

Detailed discussion of the key topics included in the Developer exam, including:

Swing components and events

Layout managers

Enhancing and extending the database

Writing the network protocol

Building the database server

Connecting the client and server

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SYBEX TEST ENGINE Test your knowledge with advanced testing software. CD includes assessment test, chapter review questions, and four bonus exams.

SEARCHABLE AND PRINTABLE PDFS The entire Study Guide is available as a searchable and printable PDF. Study anywhere, anytime, and approach the exam with confidence.

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Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: Sybex; 5 edition (May 20, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0782144195
ISBN-13: 978-0782144192
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
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Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Sufficient, worth the price, you'll pass, but it really isn't very "good"., January 25, 2006

By	Laszlo Uriel "Laszlo" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

If you memorize everything in this book, you'll pass with NO flying colors. There are typos and mistakes in the examples. There are worse typos and mistakes in the chapter review questions. The sample exams on the CD are just one exam repeated 4 or 5 times, but with extremely slight changes. All the reviews and sample tests together do not come anywhere near to imitating the questions on the test (SCJP). Once you have memorized everything in the text and examples (correcting all the typos and errors along the way), and can answer all the review and sample test questions 100%, you're still only going to get a minimal passing grade on the SCJP test.

This book is very, VERY helpful. However, be sure to do additional studying outside of this book. And beware that some of the exam questions on the CD are actually programmed incorrectly, and selecting the correct answer will be marked as INCORRECT. The 'correct' answer they give you will in some cases actually conflict with the explaination for that answer.

Very poor execution, but nonetheless is a very good BASIS for study to pass the SCJP.

I have not yet taken the SCJD, but the text for it (starting at chapter 10) leave a lot to be desired. Again, it's a good starting point, but you should do more studying and lots (!) of Swing/RMI/Threading practice in beyond what the book covers, before taking your test. It's description of RMI does leave a lot to be desired.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Useful but deeply flawed, January 21, 2006

By	Nicodemus (Cheltenham) - See all my reviews

Firstly, let's be clear what this book is - and is not.
It is NOT a teach-yourself-java book. It is assumed that you already know Java. The goal of this book is to get you through the SCJP exam. To pass the exam, you need to know by rote many details that you would just look up when you are actually programming (I speak as someone who has done this professionally for many years.)
Some of the criticisms in other reviews may be because the reviewers expected to learn Java from scratch with this book. EG the coverage of Generics is minimal (6 pages by the way - not 2 paragraphs as someone stated); but you do not need huge knowledge of Generics in the exam.

The book is on the whole well-organised to cover the information you do need to know. I would say this book could be ONE useful tool - but do not rely on it entirely. I chose it because I wanted to do the latest version of the SCJP exam (Java 1.5 also known as Java 5). At the time this was the ONLY book of its kind covering the 1.5 features.

If there are now other books I would recommend you consider those. Why? Because as others have said, this book is full of annoying errors. Mostly these are not too serious - and you can usually spot them if you are intelligent enough not to automatically believe everything you read. EG. A question has 4 answers A-D. The book tells you the correct answer is E. Yes there are lots like that. In fact most of the errors seem to be in the tests & answers. (I guess this keeps you alert!)

There are also some real howlers. EG "the method clone() is declared in the Cloneable interface". NO - it is declared by class Object - Cloneable is a 'marker' interface without any methods. Or "the Swing GUI event-handling thread is a daemon thread". This is simply false, and you can prove that in 5 minutes by writing a simple program to check. Luckily there aren't too many like this (or I failed to spot them!)

The other warning I would give is that although the questions are not much easier than the real ones, they are much quicker to read & understand. I always completed these tests in about 2/3 of the allocated time. In the real exam I only just had time to finish all the questions.

Interestingly, Sybex have an errata page on their website, but there are hardly any errors documented. I have seen other websites that list the errata and complain that they have been sent to Sybex but ignored. I expect Sybex are simply too embarrassed!

The last part of the book contains hints for the NEXT java exam - the Java Developer exam. There is actually some pretty good advice in there. EG don't make your application too clever - you will probably lose points instead of gaining them.

Overall, my advice is to get a better book that does the same job - if you can.
Oh yeah - I got 79% which is a very comfortable pass.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but could use more examples involving new material, June 27, 2005

By	George Elkins (Bernardsville, NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I passed SCJP 5.0 by reading this book. However, some of the new material is covered in isolation. I'd like to see more examples, such as of interaction between method overloading/overriding and variable arguments, interaction between overloading/overriding and Generics, and examples of overloading/overriding combined with boxing/unboxing.

Also, the password provided for the electronic version of the book on the CD is invalid (but see errata on Sybex web site for the solution to this problem).

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3.0 out of 5 stars An OK book, but certainly not the best
This is my second review, and again, it's a java certification book. This was the book I studied from for my certification exam, and thanks to God, I did pretty well... Read more

Published 18 months ago by Alaa Mohssen Nassef

4.0 out of 5 stars I Passed the SCJP Exam Using this Book
This is a good book if you want to review and brush up on your knowledge for the SCJP 5.0 exam. With that being said, this is not the only material that you should use for the... Read more

Published 23 months ago by Clayton

3.0 out of 5 stars Dont Depend completely on this book for SCJP exam
This book gives some basic idea to prepare for exam . Do your own research on topics like Generics , Threads , Collections etc and do some sample questions from Sun site... Read more

Published on May 22, 2007 by R. BHAGAVALDAS

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
I highly recommend this book whether you're going for the certification or not. It's well laid out, and well written. Read more

Published on May 13, 2007 by Learning Java

1.0 out of 5 stars I do not recommend this book at all.
The book does provide some high-level overview of Java 1.5 features, and that's where it stops. It doesn't provide anywhere near enough detail and application to be used as... Read more

Published on May 27, 2006 by Russell C Frame

1.0 out of 5 stars Garbage
The publisher and authors are clowns. Riddled with errors and the exams on the CD are worthless. NOT even remotely close to what the real exam has. Don't get the 1. Read more

Published on January 25, 2006 by asasa

2.0 out of 5 stars This Book Won't Leave You Confident
The fifth edition of this book has really big typos. For instance, the chapter introductions sometimes promise to discuss topics that aren't discussed anywhere in the entire book... Read more

Published on November 19, 2005 by Brandon Tom

1.0 out of 5 stars Not reliable for preparation of SCJP 1.5
I bought this book to prepare for SCJP 1.5. However, neither the content nor the coverage is enough. Read more

Published on September 29, 2005 by Sushil Joshi

1.0 out of 5 stars Toilet paper
This book is not a good way to prepare for the 5.0 exam. It's just the 1.4 book with a couple of extra paragraphs added. The new language features are not properly covered. Read more

Published on September 22, 2005 by G. Janssen

2.0 out of 5 stars Lots of text, lots of errors
I read the 3rd edition of this book in preparation for the Java programmers exam - its an old version, but I read it since a colleague had it handy. Read more

Published on September 17, 2005 by Tokyo-B

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