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Is my book out of date?

 
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I was using "The Complete Java2 Certification Study Guide" Sybex book by Roberts,Heller,Ernest to study for the SCJP exam. I had heard that in addition to what's in this book, they added Swing to the exam... It does include Collections and some layout managers.
I just want to make sure that I'm not missing something when studying for the exam...
 
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Swing topics are not on the exam, but LayoutManagers and collections certainly are.
Your book should say somewhere which version of the test it is for, I know that there is a version of the RHE book for the current test.
Your primary reference for whats on the exam should always be the Sun objectives, which you can download from this page as the "Success Guide":
http://suned.sun.com/US/certification/java/java_progj2se.html
 
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Originally posted by William Brogden:
Swing topics are not on the exam, but LayoutManagers and collections certainly are.
Your book should say somewhere which version of the test it is for, I know that there is a version of the RHE book for the current test.
Your primary reference for whats on the exam should always be the Sun objectives, which you can download from this page as the "Success Guide":
http://suned.sun.com/US/certification/java/java_progj2se.html


Thanks.... I was worried that the book I have doesn't cover everything. It looks like all is covered in the book except for GridBagLayout. I got this book because it has a CD so I can take multiple Mock exams without answering the exact same questions. I figure with this test and doing a few of the mock exams pointed to from javaranch I should be ready to go.
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