Hello everyone,
Cleared XML exam with 79% .
Here is the split
Architecture - 80%
Information Modelling - 80%
XML Processing - 72% (don't know why this time it is low)
XML Rendering - 100% (Scored low in mocks)
Testing and Tuning - 83%
I would like to thank everyone in this forum for proviing valudle tips on the resources. Apart from the certification, the XML knowledge I improved during this study can't be valued! I believe you really need to know something clear maybe not so deep in this exam.
The Whizlab Simulator helped me also a lot to get the confidence for this exam.
The questions I met in this exam is not so difficult as Whizlan shows, but really need clear understanding of the theory. It covers all teh necessary that IBM clarifies in its exam requirements...
I have XSLT, web service DOM, SAX processing experience in the real project and edited some schemas occasionally, I used 1.5 months to preparfe thsi exam, everyday about 3 hours.
Book: Professional XML 2nd version
Online: all missing elements from this book, like soem good tutorial about DTD entities and security part from IBM, of course -> W3cschool, and XML.com , some XML standards plus DOM, SAX
Java APIs are also very helpful.
I did all five mock exams from Whizlab (failed once but all of them are worse than the real exam report), in Whizlab the XSLT part is really difficult...and be careful they have also some small mistakes..
(paste the details next time)
some tipps for multiple choices and scenario questions:
for scenario questions you have to find the key
word which leads to the answer, this is very important, when to use DOM, when to XSLT, what is the most important sentences....
multiple choice U have to choose 2 or mor answers, if U are not sure 2 or 3 of them are correct, just choose 3 of them. if only 2 answers are correct, it will warn you. But in the question it will never tell you how many are correct!
Be patient and go ahead!
U will be success.
Roy
MCSE
IBM Professional XML developer
SCJP(prepared in next month)
SCWCD(before winter:-))