Passed Test 141

Hi All
Today I successfully completed Test 141 and have become IBM Certified Developer for XML and Related Technologies.
My scoring is 72% (far less that my SCJP2 94% scoring…...

For me the question-percentages from the 5 sections were
Architecture – 19%
Information Modeling – 26%
XML processing – 33%
XML rendering- 11%
Testing and Tuning 11%
Below are the few points that I thought I should note down.
1. We should be thorough with XSL, XPath concepts.
2. Difference between DOM and SAX2 ( in which case DOM should be applied and in which case SAX2 should be applied )
3. Structure of DOM.
4. I found questions on Schema to be very basic and easy. But then we should never neglect it.
5. I didn’t find any syntax related questions on XSL-FO or CSS (About which I was apprehensive before the exam). But we should know the applications side.
6. On web services I got few questions.
SOAP -> Mainly on basic concepts on which SOAP is built
UDDI -> for what we use UDDI.
7. I found DTD questions are easy to answer. I found questions mainly on entity, notation and entity reference. Difference between DTD and Schemas should be known properly.
8. I got one question on Security basically asking about the minimum validity requirement for XML Signature Specification
What I felt from the exam -> IBM gives stretch on XML Technology application side questions rather than on syntax related questions.
Thanks
Mamta

Congratulations Mamta !!!

Great!
Congatulations Mamta!

Congrats a lot

Congratulations Mamta!

Hema

Hi Mamta,
Congratulations . I read many articles from many people about the XML resources. But just wanted to how you prepared for the XML exam.
Thanks

Job, well done!
Finally, good to see people clearing this test!
-Rajesh.

Congrats Mamta!
Thank you for your suggestions to us.
72% is a good score, for XML is tougher than SCJP, isn't it?

Doug

[ January 16, 2002: Message edited by: Doug Wang ]

Hello everybody
I am sorry I am bit late in replying.
Thanks for your wishes.
Sunil - >
I started learning XML 2 months back. And after 2 weeks I heard that IBM is giving free voucher for XML, so I gave the sample and got the voucher. Only then I started preparing seriously for it.
Well I started with Beginning XML by David Hunter ( Wrox Publication ) and then went to Professional XML ( 1st Edition ). But 1st Edition has got old topics like SAX1. So I think for certification 2nd Edition will be better. Moreover I heard that 2nd Edition touches almost all topics on Certification.

Apart from the above I have gone through a lot of web sites for gathering information.
Among those few websites I would like to suggest based on topics.
1. For Schema ( www.xfront.com. Roger L Costello’s Schema Tutorial on Powerpoint slides along with the sample lab work was worth to take.)
2. For SAX2 ( www.megginson.com. You can get the structures of all the new and old interfaces )
3. For XSLT and Xpath – XML Bible ( Sample Chapters available on web)
4. For DOM ( www.w3.org)
5. www.xml.com , www.ibm.com ( for different articles)
I hope I have given all the required answers.
Thanks
Mamta

Hi,
Thanks Mamta, for the information.
I have also gone through the XML Schema tutorial
downloaded from xfront.com and it is really very interesting and covers almost everything in XML Schema.
Regards,
Niharika

Thank you Mamta. I will look into these resources. I am taking test on Feb last week.
Once again thank you for sharing the info with all of us.
Sunil

congrats

Thanks for the info.
Axel