Hey folks, Just another self-congratulatory/ informational e-mail. I passed Part 1 with 91% (44 out of 48) Concepts 100% Common Architectures 66% Legacy Connectivity 100% EJB 100% EJB Container Model 75% Protocols 100% Applicability of J2EE 100% Design Patterns 100% Messaging 100% Internationalization 50% Security 100% Notes on Questions General ------- As other people have indicated there are a LOT of scenario-based questions e.g. ask you to pick architectures etc. that fit that scenario. Some questions were a little vague so take your time. Some questions have LONG descriptions 6-10 lines and are worth drawing pictures to help think about them. Concepts - What kinds of "ilitys" should an architect be concerned with (Scalability, availability etc.) - Needed to be able to recognize a Sequence diagram - Need to be able to recognize a UML Realization relationship(implements interface!) - Recognize what development techniques help code re-use (e.g. factoring etc.) Common Architectures - There were a LOT of migration architecture questions which played into Legacy Connectivity or Applicability of J2EE and applets - Understand what clustering is and how it helps an architecture (scalability) - Understand what DNS round robin can do for scalability/load balancing Legacy Connectivity - At least two on MQSeries - Quite a few on IIOP esp. port-related - Quite a few on applets and IIOP - recognizing when screen scraping is appropriate EJB - Needed to know Stateless session beans cannot be passivated/activated - Needed to know what the Application Assembler does (I didn't!) - Benefits of pooling of Entity beans (Scalability) - Relationship of code in ejbActivate() and ejbPassivate() - Bean lifecycle
EJB Container Model - Need to know what Container model handles for you (transactions, CMP) - Need to know how to speed up performance of certain architectures e.g. use BMP vs. DAO etc. - Does "Required" mean that a new transaction is created if the bean is invoked outside of a transaction? - CMP vs BMP - Benefits and Costs - How can a transaction be coordinated with legacy systems or Java systems outside the container/server Protocols - Need to know about ports for HTTP/HTTPS to answer architecture questions - Know that you can tunnel IIOP over HTTP/HTTPS - Know that HTTPS is stateful Applicability of J2EE - Given a description of an application tell when J2EE might be required and not Design Patterns - Need to know recognize a description of Proxy, Observer - JDBCResultSet uses Iterator - Costs of Design patterns (performance etc.) Messaging - Basics of JMS (Publish/Subscribe vs. MQ) - Know that MQSeries is compatible with JMS Internationalization - What class supports conversion of 8-bit characters to Unicode - What aspects of a system are typically internationalized at startup time Security - Certificates - how they can be used in conjunction with jarsigner and a user's keystore - Know that unsigned applets CANNOT read arbitrary files but can open network connections (ONLY back to the server for the applet) - Know what aspects of a firewall can impact IIOP (i.e. what filters) RESOURCES USED i) Enterprise Java Beans 2nd Edition (EJB 1.1) by Monson-Haefel Chapters 1-8. ii) Design Patterns by Gang of Four iii) I took a course on Design Patterns based on the book - available at Harvard Extension School iv) UML Distilled (Martin Fowler & Kendall Scott) v) Tim Ho's Notes vi) Read quite a few of the papers on links for SCEA_PREP http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scea_prep/ Thanks to all at Javaranch and on SCEA_PREP group at Yahoo! FYI I'm actually going to wait on Part 2 / 3 for a while until I get more design experience. I think I'll take IBM's XML Certification to be a little more balanced. I hate to say it but it might be time to hedge a little with .Net :-( Best, -Frank Kelly SCJP2, SCEA Pt. 1
Frank, Congratulations and great job! I am thinking of starting to study for the SCEA. Wondering how much experience do you have and roughly how long did you prepare for the test? Mike SCJP2, SCJD
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