Hello, Cameron;
Thank you for your words of encouragement; yes, the exam was hard for me, I finished only 3 minutes before the time was up.
Your nice self promotion trick worked just fine on me, so I went ahead and clicked on your link:
http://studyguides.scja.com/ExamScam/get.jsp?link=mockexams and "took the exam", again;
To my surprise, I scored 73 of the 76 questions that you have available, which is 96%, again. Must be a curse.
In case you want to hear what I have to say about your site and your exam, here it is:
* the site would benefit form an automated link checker; for example when you click on "Get SCJA Certified Fast!", you would actually you get: "HTTP Status 404 - /sunjavascjaexambooksstudyguidesmockexamsfreetutorials.jsp.jsp"
* you still seem to have few question/answer errors, for example:
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in the UML exam:
http://studyguides.scja.com/ExamScam/get.jsp?link=testuml question number:
11
your question:
"Which of the following are not valid code snippets that could be placed to the right of the equals sign: Alpha male ="
your answer:
"... and only Crew fits this bill, making c) correct. ..."
my answer:
"a) or b) or d)"
(This question I got right - "according to me")
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in the SERVER exam:
http://studyguides.scja.com/ExamScam/get.jsp?link=testserver question number:
1
your question: Choose the 3 most correct answers
"Which of the following technologies typically work together to provide email capabilities? SMTP JAF JMS JavaMail"
your answer:
"Options a) b) and d) are correct. JavaMail is the API for sending emails, and SMTP is the Simple Mail Transport Protocol, which is used for sending email. JavaMail is also commonly associated with JAF, the Japanese Air Force, which is used for delivering complex attachments along with email. I doubt you'll see much about JAF on the exam, but make sure you know that JavaMail and SMTP are like two peas in an email iPod."
my answer:
"Options a) and b) and d) are correct. A good comedian should always first judge the context of his audience before attempting to make a joke. Since in the context of a java exam, JAF probably stands for JavaBeans Activation Framework, which, unlike Japanese Air Force, is indeed relevant to the JavaMail, and since and JavaMail is Sun�s generic Java API for email and since SMTP is stands for the Simple Mail Transport Protocol for exchanging email, then: a) SMTP b) JAF d) JavaMail is a good choice."
Here is what your Canadian brothers think about this:
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jaf.html" (This question I failed and had to do some research. Misleading a greenhorn who can barely stand on his feet is probably a poor joke.)
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in the SERVER exam:
http://studyguides.scja.com/ExamScam/get.jsp?link=testserver question number:
7
your question:
"Which of the following two are associated with distributed EJBs? (Advanced Question) ties stubs skeletons marshals"
your answer:
"Options a) and b) are correct. Ties Stubs are provided to the client invoking the
EJB, and skeletons ties sit on the server side. Messages back and forth from the client to the server are marshaled back and forth through these two objects. Options a) and b) are correct. Skeletons are associated with other distributed technologies. "
my answer:
"Even based on your own answer, the following 3 combinations should fit your question: a)ties b)stubs; a)ties c)skeletons; b)stubs c)skeletons;"
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* few features of your exams can be rather confusing for a greenhorn like me; the following I think would greatly help to reduce the confusion, and make it more like the real exam:
+ add line numbers to your code snippets;
+ have just one "save for review" check box instead of 4 radio buttons;
+ have question number shown;
+ have "a), b), c), ..." actually shown next to answer options;
+ have "next" to navigate across "marked", not just across "all";
+ add timer;
* when I started preparation for SCJA I went on internet to look for books and actually stumbled on you site; but with all the kid's stuff like blinking, and claims like "THE ULTIMATE CERTIFICATION ...", and links like "Is This Site Crap?" my immediate conclusion was that yes, it is, and so I went to see the nearest Borders, which also did not have any of your books.
* in fact the 2 Borders books stores that I visited had no books at all on SCJA, but had SCJP, SCBCD, and SCWCD instead, and which all indeed seemed like not crap at all; so I prepared for SCJA in a bizarre way of studying a SCJP book with various resources on the net to meet Sun's objectives; hence I have no idea how good your book is, sorry.
But hey, if you email your book to me, I can probably share a thought or two.
I wish this essay will help you to improve your site, exam, and sell more books;
Thank you for your post and for you site - it was fun!
Cheers,
Nathan.