Hi guys,
I dont know whether i am the right person to give you guys, tips on preparing for SCWCD exam. Though i get 93%, i studied only for 10 days (dont get surprised, i have 2 years of working knowledge on these areas). Here are some i could give.
1. Study all the design
patterns (blueprints from sun site). I get some questions on front component and session facade.
2. It is better to memorize all the dtds those that are mostly used. You can skip filter,env-entry,resource-env-ref,etc kind of elements that are less used. Better go through the samle descriptor files given in
Servlet specification for normal web.xml and secure web.xml.
3. Also, look into the description for the elements given in the dtd. I get some questions on identifying the tags by giving descriptions.
4. Study the breif descriptions given in the api for the classes/interfaces like ServletRequest etc.
5. The simulator softwares like SCWCDwhiz and jweb+ would help you in assessing your knowledge time to time on the objective areas. Scwcdwhiz is slightly tougher than the real exam. I could never score a 90% in scwcdwhiz.
6. Understand clearly the life cycles and the corresponding methods that might be invoked for servlets,
jsp and taglibraries.
7. The books like "Java Server Programming
J2ee edition" and "Professional JSP 2nd Edition" could help you in understanding the concepts. I followed these 2 books besides the specs.
8. Get help from javaranch whenever you need some clarification.
Hope this helps.
I wish you guys could a better score than me as i could not get much time for the preparation.
Regards
Durvasula