Hi guys,
following to my first post here is my exam experience, where I hope someone will find it useful:
Part 1: it took me about a month to prepare for it, I read Cade & Sheil book and many other resources provided at the forum here, I think having SCBCD and SCWCD helps in understanding all the features and limitations.
Part 2: here comes the hard part, it took me about 5 months to work it out: I read a lot of posts about the size of the diagrams and how many element each one contains but I wrote what I felt correct even though it wasn't that big, for the class diagram I had 29 classes including the jsps, deployment and component pretty straight forward and similar to the Cade & Sheil sample assignment, five sequence diagram (I had to split one diagram into two) and I wrote a lot in the assumptions because there were a lot of unclear points in the assignment.
Part 3: after working on the assignment, writing about it is an easy task: this part was a set of standard question where I had to justify my decisions on the assignment: I wrote a lot here because I wanted to make it clear for the assessor how did I do everything.
again I hope that would help someone
Cheers
SCJP 5 (80%), SCWCD 5 (85%), SCBCD 5 (80%), CAPM, SCEA/OCMJEA