Did the
test on Saturday and passed with a respectable 86%. Exam was full of
thread questions. Question 12-20ish were all thread questions with 3 of them with some nasty bits of long code. It's difficult to trace through the code from a screen I find.
I started studying in January by reading Kathy and Bert's book. I am working as a programmer over here in Japan so it was tough to find the time as I have Japanese exams to keep me busy aswell. I read it twice, the second time round I made notes. This took maybe 3 hours a day 4 days a week for the 2 months(other days spent studying japanese
) My one recommendation would be if possible do some every day. I couldn't but I noticed my level was down any time I took a long break from the
Java.
I only finished the second read 2 weeks ago and then I got stuck into the mock exams. Dan Chisolms exams were a bit too difficult but very good as a study aid(especially Collections and Keywords exams)
Below are links I used. The velmurugan_p study notes were for the 1.2 exam but excellent.
http://www.geocities.com/velmurugan_p/notes.html http://www.danchisholm.net/index.html http://www.jchq.net/certkey/index.htm http://www.javacertificate.com/javacertificate/control/examcenter http://www.jchq.net/mockexams/exam1.htm