It occurred to me that the following experience might be useful to some in this forum.
When I took the exam (and flunked) a month ago, Sun had
just released the new version and I complained to them, via
email, about two problems with the exam. I was very delighted
to get this terse reply; "In order to hava strong chance at passing this exam. You must have experience with writing codes and programming." Brilliant, huh??
The good part, was that she attached a free voucher to retake the exam
Very generous of Sun.
Hopefully Sun has corrected the problems as I'll be giving the exam another shot on Friday. The issues were; a reference to line 24 in a code sample, which was a blank line, and the fact that they did the survey at the beginning of the exam, WITH THE CLOCK RUNNING!
When I reported the problems I admitted that I would have flunked anyway, so this little surprise helped to heal my pain.
I never see any posts here from people who fail the exam. To this silent minority; "keep a stiff upper lip, and get back at it".
Many thanks to the VERY nice and sweet people who post here. I've never seen such a nurturing group of people. I suppose it's not politically-correct to say this but... I partly attribute it to the large number of Indian nationals who participate here. As a consultant, I've worked "shoulder to shoulder" with many Indians and, generally as a group, they are a very fine lot.
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