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Passed SCEA I with 84% (3 weeks preparation )

 
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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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Congratulations!
 
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Congratulations!!

 
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Congratulations.
It's a very very good score !

Beno�t
 
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It's a great score !

Congrats !!!
 
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Congrats
 
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I just spent a whole day studying UML (chapter 3, documenting architecture),
Looks like, I don't need it for Part 1 of the exam as it is not listed in objective. Was there any question about UML?
 
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Congratulation and Thanks for the tips

You have mentioned that you had questions about JSP and Tags. What kind of questions you got? Can you please give an example

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Hello guys !

For UML , it's very strange that I hadn't met any UML questions in my part I ,I don't know why , while I think a study of UML will be helpful for later tests ( at least for part II and III ).

For the web tier question , as I said I can't recall the exact questions (most questions were scenario based and quite long , after the test my head was in chaos , I think some others tester got that feelings too . )

It may present a business case , and let you to choose which technology to use , the option maybe servlet , jsp with standard tags , jsf with ....

Some question a soley for web tier tech , some question may include web tier as one part for the solution.
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thanks fred nps
 
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Thanks Lu,

I though there would atleast be some question relating to UML on design pattern (for example, naming the design pattern by looking at UML diagram).
 
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Hi sugar ,

There were quite a few pattern questions , but there was no questions with the style "naming the design pattern by looking at UML diagram" .

In my test all the pattern questions were senario based , in fact this is true for practice questions(from yahoo group) and pracetice exam from Sun .

I found some uml questions in practice questions about the UML diagram itself , but not about patterns .

FYI.
 
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