I Passed part I yesterday with 84% .
Not a very high score but given the very short preapreation time, it's not bad . I did middleware presale work for years ,I have good concept for distributed computing and enterprise software , but I don't do lots of coding recently .
My preparation time is very limited , and I found this forum very useful , unfortunately I found this forum one day before my exam
, but some posts are still very helpful .I think I can get more from this forum for part II and III , and hopefully I can contribute something as well
.
My feeling about my exam:
Time went very fast , finally I got 18 minutes left , but I feel it was hard to rethink the marked questions , so my suggestion is to try to solve the problems at first time .
Some questions are too long so even just after the
test I can't recall much of them
.
There are 2-3 questions are very confusing , they took quite a while to read and understand .
Some questions are short , but it's hard to choose the right one (there are 2 answers seem both to be right, that drove me crazy )
There are 15+ questions about Web tier and
JSF , and my web tier is weak , many questions are talking about jsf,
jsp,
servlet , tags etc. , so I think tester should pay more attention to the web tier . Not many questions on
EJB , the old EJB subjects are all obsolete , and there were not many indepth questions on JPA and EJB3 .
I think the most easy part is Integration (WS related ) and Messaging , I got 100% on these topics ,and the question is easy to understand , so the tester should try to get most of them , it's a good base for your pass .
Security is not that hard as someone described , but a quick review of the "core security pattern" book is very helpful .
I got 100%
patterns , I think tester should briefly go through all GOF patterns ,and the book "core j2ee pattern" is a must .
So that is my Part I , hopes veryone here are lucky too .
Cheers ,
Fred
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