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Hi all,

Quick question but very important to me :

I just went through SCJD,SCWCD & SCBCD. I`m SCJP 1.2 and was thinking about doing the upgrade. I so bored of studying... is there a quick way (reference site) to know exactly what people need to know to pass the exam ? I don`t really care about marks. :roll:

I also want to know how tough is the upgrade exam ? Do Sun ask us to study again all the details ?

Anyway, any information would be appreciate. thk !

 
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If you're bored, why upgrade?
 
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Want to search for an other job.

And I`m bored because it took me 7 months to get them. And they are expiring in less than 2 years. Always running around to update all the exams. that`s all.
I prepare the first one during almost 6 months and I would like to know the amount of work for this upgrade exam. that`s all !
 
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Well, you may want to check Sun's FAQ. They changed their policy about certications expiring in 2002 and again in 2003.

You could check out the 1.4 upgrade objectives. Last time I looked at them it seemed like it still covered a lot of the same details.

Hopefully someone on the forum that took the upgrade will respond.

Learning tiger sounds like more fun to me than studying for 1.4 upgrade. That's just my opinion though!
 
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Thk ! Any by any chance, do you think they will offer a 1.2 to 1.5 upgrade ? This is what it concern me. With Tiger 1.5, the 1.2 is a little bit far away... no ?
 
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You may be right about the tiger upgrade.

I was thinking maybe they wouldn't even offer a tiger upgrade since the exam is so different. But I searched this forum on beta plus upgrade and both Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates have indicated they think there will be an upgrade. It will just take a while before it is available.
 
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I am also SCJP(1.2). I was just wondering that how it is different to take upgrade exam than full exam. I know exam fee and exam taking time is less in upgrade exam than regular one. Is upgrade exam more difficult than regular one and they avoid trivial questions that is why above mentioned differences. However never worked on real project in Java and have 15 years in Cobol and thinking to upgrade and shift to Java field. How difficult it will be? Any idea will be appreciated.
 
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I'm looking at JavaRanch SCJP FAQ - Q10. 1.2 vs. 1.4:

IO and AWT dropped for 1.4 (FYI, IO is back in Tiger)
Assertions and Wrapper classes added.
Deeper understanding of Collections required.

You can look at the objectives link I posted above to see what is covered in the upgrade. It is less topics, but includes Threads and nested classes.
[ March 01, 2005: Message edited by: Carol Enderlin ]
 
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