Failed SCWCD 5 - 68%

[Madavi Singh]

Lack of preparation

Read Head First(1.4) - Was unable to read/study chapter 8,9,10,13,14

Read SCWCD Revision Notes - Fredric Esnault

Read Marc Peabody's Design Pattern Notes

No Mock Exams

About a 10 days preparation around 6-8 hrs per day

Scored the following

The Servlet Technology Model - 66%
The Structure and Deployment of web applications - 75%
The Web Container Model - 100%
Session Management - 57%
Web application security - 83%
JSP Technology Model -80%
Building JSP Pages using EL - 60%
Building JSP Pages using Standard Actions - 25%
Building JSP Pages using Tag Libraries - 37%
Building a Custom Tag Library - 40%
J2EE Patterns - 100%

- Most questions were from JSP / Tags / EL etc (
- Design Patterns I think around 7 or 8
- Security
- Nothing from Filters
- 3-4 Drag and Drops (Url writing mainly)
- Basic questions - Get/Post methods, writing urls
- Session Management 6-7 Questions
- 3-4 Questions from Chapter 11

Thank god my voucher has a retake promotion

Started studying again.. Hoping to give the exam in another 3 weeks.. This time with better preparation Hopefully

[ July 21, 2008: Message edited by: Mulan ]
[ July 21, 2008: Message edited by: Mulan ]

[Joe Harry]

Just concentrate on the areas where you lost most of your marks!

Good luck next time.

[Jesper de Jong]

Mulan, please check your private messages. You can see them by clicking My Private Messages.

[Rogerio Kioshi]

You almost got it.

Now it is your chance to study more mocks. (Final Head First Servlets & JSP mock has many good questions). Better luck next time

[Cameron Wallace McKenzie]

Don't give up! You're close. Very close. Sometimes, people get really tough question sets out of the pool. A different pool set, maybe you would have scored 80%...Who knows...

Just keep studying!

-Cameron McKenzie