Hi Mou, this is sayan.I am from Kolkata My email id is: san_bha62@rediffmail.com Please correspond.I am preparing for SCJP If you would like to take the certification then may be we can help each other As far as the IBM certs go, they dont have any basic java certs.Their certs are based on their product.You can follow this link to be better aquinted with IBM java certs http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/adedwssv5.shtml