This week's book giveaway is in the Agile and other Processes forum. We're giving away four copies of The Mikado Method and have Ola Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund on-line! See this thread for details.
Just wanted to let those know who haven't heard that the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (310-055), will be live on April 18.
Thanks for the heads up, Jeff. How did you hear about it? I can't seem to find any info on Sun's web site about the SCJP 5.0 beta or otherwise. Are there any links to read up on it?
Thanks in advance.
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Might be this is an email to those who subscribed with SUN's latest news.
Or this might be an email that sent from Prometric for those SCJP Tiger Beta takers.
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The Sun education newsletter for Europe doesn't mention anything about the 1.5 SCJP. It does mention a seminar about 1.5 to be held early May.
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Can any one give a clarification ?
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I sent an e-mail into Sun Education on the date for the new test and they responded with April 18th. The email address is registrars@sun.com.
Originally posted by Marcus Green: Plenty of people will still not pass
It means that plenty of people are not yet ready to develop Java Application.
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Dang it! Just bought the study guides for 1.4!! Should I still do the 1.4 exam? What has changed in the new exam? Most advice welcome!
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It means that plenty of people are not yet ready to develop Java Application.
It only means plenty of people are not yet read to develop Java Application using Tiger.
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Plenty of people will still not pass
However, for SCDJWS, even the passing rate is 68%, there were still plenty of people passed in the beta exams.
Since SCDJWS should be harded than SCJP, and thus, SCJP should have a higher passing rate.
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Dang it! Just bought the study guides for 1.4!! Should I still do the 1.4 exam? What has changed in the new exam? Most advice welcome!
Please do a simple search. There are lots of related posts.
In short, you will found the exam format has been changed from MC questions only, to MC questions with Drag and Drop questions.
It required you to know some of the important new features, like enhanced for-loop, Generics, autoboxing, PriorityQueue, etc. It also requires you to have a deep understanding in OO concepts.
Also, you can expect the level of difficulty from the exam time. You have 175 mins for 72 questions, which means that 2.5 mins per question.
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