Last week I passed the XML exam with a score of 79% , Thanks Hari and Pradeep for your IBM XML Certification Success tutorials, it would not have been possible for me to get started for the exam preparation without your tutorials. I read the tutorial two to three times before reading other books or materials. Thanks for all javaranch members for their very valuable information that helped me for the exam preparation.
My Scores:
Architecture - 18% - 100%
Information Modeling - 27% - 66%
XML Processing � 33% - 88%
XML Rendering � 11% - 66%
Testing and Tuning � 11% - 66%
My preparation:
Two months - 2 to 3 hrs a day, 4 to 6 hrs on weekends
IBM XML Certification Success, Part 1 & Part 2 by Hari Vignesh Padmanaban & Pradeep Chopra.
Profession XML, I read only the chapter about DTD.
Essential Quick Reference by Aaron Skonnard.
Tutorials from
www.w3schools.com SAX and DOM Chapters from Processing XML with
Java by Ellotee Rusty Harold
XML Reference from Microsoft
http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/WD_XMLStd/html/868d4a33-d209-40bc-84f1-4f80f8de9263.asp SAX tutorial by Nazmul Idris -
http://developerlife.com/saxtutorial1/file.pdf XML How to Program - Chapter 6: Document Type Definition (DTD) & Chapter 11: XML Path Language (XPath) (free downloads)
Whizlabs Exam Simulator � Helped me a lot to know about the
pattern of the exam.
Also I took the Shashank Tanksali's IBM XML (141) Mock Exam, skillometer free test and IBM�s sample test.
I am very happy that I made it through the exam with good score