I'm still looking to take the
test, but from what I see everyone's correct-sometimes it helps, sometimes they could care less, and of course it's not the same as having hands on experience. If you look at job postings you will see some that put it in there as a prereq but I doubt they'd turn down a hot shot with 10 years of experience LOL
My original reason to take and prepare for this test was twofold: I haven't done Java professionally for over 5 years, so I needed to 'ramp up' anyway, and I thought I might as well get a certification while I was doing so. The only other alternative besides the CS degree is to do an incredibly impressive project (open source app maybe?) and that may help. In retrospect, I've been learning a lot about java getting ready for this test so I'm starting to look at THAT as the biggest benifit - it's really forced me to go back and get my basics rock solid! JMTC
Oh, and another thing. Say you get asked 5-10 questions on an interview; I'll bet at least one of them is a java fundamentals question. Back when I was interviewing (which of course was several years ago) every interview had some fundamental type of question. More food for thought.
[ December 07, 2007: Message edited by: nico dotti ]