Hi javaranchers,
I took my
SCJP exam today and passed. I did not pass with some outstanding score like many people do. But i am really relieved from the tension.!!
About the exam :
The exam was not tricky at all. The questions were well phrased and pretty straight forward. I finished the exam in one hour and had 30 minutes to review and i had big
thread questions to be done at last. there were 4 questions each on an average had 28-30 lines of code!
One has to write,write and write loads and loads of code and practice to understand the language. That really helps a lot wrt understanding the code. Donot be afraid of the compiler scoldings...!!! Just try and change the code and look for all the possibilities in which the code can be written.
The breakage in the questions :
Threads 7 questions
IO -- 6 questions
java.util - 3
java.lang - 4
GC -- 1
AWT - 5
Inner classes and Anonymous classes -- 3
and lots on language fundementals, exception handling, declaration and access control, overloading and overriding.
only 10% of the questions were like short answer type questions. most of the questions had more than one answer and the question states that select the best possible answer.
The thread questions were the toughest..i got only 57% in Threads. The wait() notify() really killed me..!!!
inorder to score well in IO it is definitely necessary to know the constructors very well.
Hope this helps. I learnt a lot from javaranch forum and really thank all of them who take pains to help us get certified. I should say that i got really addicted to this site.!!!
Good luck for all the future SCJP's.
Sunitha. S
[This message has been edited by Sunitha Sounderrajan (edited October 31, 2000).]