Today I passed 141.
My story:
Last January I miserably failed. That was old
test, harder than the current one.
My score was slightly below passing (well, I do not remember neither my score, nor the number of questions for that version). I was a bit frustrated... .
Then I decided to put up references to
140,
141 The year was not wery easy to me: shortly after that I was laid off, than found a new job,
but abandoned the idea to re-take the test.
When IBM offered free voucher, I took advantage of it.
In my busy life with tight assignments, I scheduled only one week for preparation, after hours and weekend.
Well, as it usually happens in my life, the problems started to accumulate by the end of the week, and I spent all Saturday doing job-related work rather than preparing for the test.
The book I read was Essential XML Quick Reference (pdf, no print). I hardly managed to read a half of it before test.
Anyway, I would be happy to pass it even with the passing score, this does not mean much for me anymore.
A least I did something useful for Javaranch and XML cert. community.
With 3,500+ visits to the ref. page, (some of them are mine
this is something!
Best of luck to everyone!
Viktor
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Impatience is all about buggy soft. llaW yrraL
To count the flowers of ur garden plant them first! Chaman Buddhadevan
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