Dear All,
I cleared my
SCJP today with 92%.
I'd like to thank this forum and everyone involved for being there to answer my queries and helping me with my prep. Thanks Ajith, Maha for clearing my concepts and taking the time to reply
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I don't have any programming background, and
java is my first lang. I started learning Java about 3 months back and began preparing for the exam about 1 1/2 month back. Got my concepts cleared from Complete Reference Java2 (Naughton, Schildt) and basically studied from RHE. I also referred to Exam Cram - primarily for their qns, tests, though i didn't find the material to be an add on to what i had already learned from the other two books. I regret not having the time to go thru JLS, i realised how imp it was only towards the fag end of my prep ... and then i decided to stick to stuff i was familiar reading. Don't try and refer to a whole lot of notes from here and there -2 books - 1 base + a Certification guide are the best bet along with JLS.
About Mock Exams - they give u a good grounding but are hardly close to the real thing. SCJP is simple, straightforward and doesn't try to get u - just for the heck of it. A lot of mock exams basically do that - rather than
testing u for basic sound fundamentals about the language. But its always good to take as many of them as they expose u to all ur weak areas and once u begin doing well on them - SCJP will be just fine. Don't get overwhelmed by the scores u get in ur mocks... just use it as a tool for ur prep.
Javaranch is a fantastic oppurtunity for all SCJP aspirants, its very user friendly and the spirit is great. I owe a great deal to this site to keep me motivated and working for the exam. I wish Javaranch the very best
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Qns I got :
I/O - 4 , one on Sockets
AWT - 5-6
Util - 2
Threads - 4 - one had Mediatracker's waitForId() as an option
Exceptions - 2
Fill in the blank - 4 - quite simple
Remaining were a mixed bag of Overloading/Overriding, Flow control, Operators, Modifiers etc.
Wish u all luck in your endeavour
happiness always
shilpa
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