Does Sun's CBT teach you what you need to know???

Has anyone out there used the Sun CD-based "Java Programming Language" course, and then taken the SCJP?

In particular, I'm learning Java 5, and currently live in the U.K.

The CD I bought from Sun has a catalog # GB-CDJ-275A, and cost more than £500; it also contained a voucher for the SCJP, which I'm taking on June 29.

But when I bought Kathy and Bert's "Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide", I found the material in the book differed from the material on CD by a wide margin.

For example:

In the book but not on the CD:
regular expressions
serialization
a lot more detail on generics
a lot more detail on collections

On the CD but not in the book:
Networking
GUI-Based applications
GUI Event Handling

When I wrote Sun about this, I got this terse reply: "All the exam information is on the CD, Wed or instructor led classes that Sun Provide. This material plus some hands on experience is usually enough for one to pass the exam"

Then I wrote Bert, and he wrote back that GUI questions haven't been on the SCJP since 1.2!

What's going on here??? Does anybody know???

Many Thanks,

ya , its true GUI questions are not there for Test

Found info on that CD here: http://uk.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/CDJ-275-SE6.xml

That CD is not meant as training specifically for the SCJP exam, so you shouldn't expect that it teaches you exactly what you need to know for the SCJP exam.

The SCJP Study Guide by K&B covers exactly what you need to know for the SCJP exam. GUI programming is not on the SCJP exam. You can find the exam objectives for SCJP on Sun's SCJP pages.