Hi all!
I passed the exam last night with a score of 86%, not fabulous but good enough.
Just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone at the JavaRanch for their help and insight, especially
Paul Wheaton for his patience and excellent advice on the Cattle Drive. Also thanks to those who replyed to my questions in the forums. I have been teaching myself
Java and you all made it much easier and quicker for me.
I also wanted to give some advice for those who haven't taken the exam yet. I definitely got questions that were not really listed in the objectives. For example,I used RHE to study and they said that because the
Thread methods stop(), suspend() and resume() were deprecated they were just sort of glossing over them and not to worry about them for the exam. I got two questions on these methods. Also, the RHE questions, while very helpful, were much easier than the ones on the actual exam. When I took the mock exam that came on CD with the RHE, I got 100%. Marcus Green's mock exam is more similar to the real one and the score I got on it was exactly the same as on the real one.
I did not get any socket or Media Tracker questions, but definitely several on file I/O. About six type-in-the-answer format (be sure to read the directions carefully on these, as they sometimes specify "do not use any spaces" or other special directions).
Anyway, thanks again to everyone at JavaRanch. This site is excellent and I definitely plan to stick around.
Stephanie
