LearnKey CD -- can't get 2nd exam?

After lurking this forum for almost a year, I've finally joined. I'm scheduled to take the SCJP 5 exam in a week. I'm reading Kathy & Bert's book and took the mock exam on the CD. It says if you register on their website you can get the 2nd exam. But when I register I get the following:

Warning: Server Error in w:\march06\elearning\gettingstarted\selfregister.php on line 289

Warning: Server Error in w:\march06\elearning\gettingstarted\selfregister.php on line 326

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at w:\march06\elearning\gettingstarted\selfregister.php:289) in w:\march06\elearning\gettingstarted\selfregister.php on line 329

I figure I'll complain to them but has anyone else on her received this or have a solution?

Thanks,
Shawn

PS - these mock questions are the devil.

hmm... never had that trouble before. Try again some time later and see if it helps. May be they were doing maintainance work.

Now it says I'm already registered and it's sending me my password. But it never sends it!

And on top of it the Prometric site isn't loading for me to reschedule my exam.

The world obviously needs more certified IT professionals.

Hey Shawn,

I can't help with your prometric problems, although you can write to Evelyn.Cartegena@sun.com about prometric.

I have written to my editor about your problem, in the meantime check to see if there is a toll-free tech support number on the website.

I'll post here when I here back from my editor.

Bert

I called the 800 number on the Osbourne website and was transferred to a person's voicemail. I left her a message on Monday morning and still haven't had a response.

After going over the mock exam on the CD and reading all the posts on here about how much easier the real exam is than the mocks, I decided to schedule my Java 5 exam. I failed. 55%. That's three

questions short of passing. It's still my fault for jumping the gun but I really need to get this 2nd mock exam now.

And I apparently need to work on API Contents, Concurrency and Generics. Those drag and drop questions were crazy. I think the book mocks and the cd mocks are no harder than the real exam.

That is quite unfortunate

Yes the real exam can sometimes give you disproportionate amount of drag and drops but dont worry about the result. I am sure that within the next two weeks your hard work will pay off. Use these two weeks to strengthen your weak areas and download the second mock after some time. I am sure that the problem with the mock exam server will be fixed as soon as possible. Study hard for the re take. Good luck with the exam. You can do it !

Thanks for the encouraging words. I called Osborne tech support back and spoke to someone. They fixed the site and I'm able to login and download the 2nd mock exam. That should help. I'm also going to code the heck out of generics and threads.

One question though. The exam showed the path for running a Java program as "java -cp whatever game.chess.chessGame" (something like that) as a valid statement to run its program in UNIX. I thought, and verified in the book, that the path to the class file should be separated by a forward slash ("/") not a period.

Seeing the exam state that the above statement was correct I went back and changed another question's answer from "dir1/dir2/class" to "dir1.dir2.class".

Now I'm just confused about it.

Shawn,

The file that chessGame is defined in will have a package statement of package game.chess; So now when you refer to chessGame you have to use the full name of game.chess.chessGame. To support this you need a file structure with a directory named game that contains a directory named chess that contains the chessGame.class file. The -cp need to point to the directory that contains the game directory. If you have java -cp game/classes chessGame it will not find it because it says there is no chessGame.

This is something that I stuggle with and I'm not sure I have this all totally correct but someone else can correct me if I'm wrong. You might want to go back and look at material on packages and JARs. You see this alot with JARs.

I understand the correlation between the directory structure and package statement.

But my question still exists, why would you be required to have "game.chess.ChessGame" in your statement rather than "game/chess/ChessGame"?

The UNIX system is going to delimit a path with a forward slash, so it seems logical to me that a statement telling the system where to look for a file (ChessGame.java) would use forward slashes rather than periods.