Just Passed! Some helpful info

So, I just passed the SCJA today and thought I would give some insights since I found many of the posts on here helpful.

1) The vast majority of the questions were related to either:

a) Interpreting code examples and outputs: Know your nested loops, static methods, String objects,etc. VERY well. 3 questions were related static methods not taking instance variables. Many others involved answers that would not compile and you need to specify the line. This felt like about 20 questions.

b) Java Technologies:. J2EE, client and server side stuff was about another 20 questions it felt like (too many if you ask me) so you'd BETTER know this. Some were hard, but most weren't too detailed. It was pretty much everything. JSP, Servlets, JNDI, JDBC, EJBs, ... About one questions for EVERY technology on the objectives list.

2) There were NO questions about UML. Not one.

3) The few object-oriented "theory" questions were very elementary questions. The more difficult ones involved examples of code.

4) A few easy questions on -d, -D, and -version.

I thought it was overall slightly easier than the practice exams from Enthuware or McKenzie's book, so if you can ace those you should pass for sure.

Focus on understanding code "tricks" and technologies and you should nail it.

Good luck!!

Welcome to the Ranch, and Congratulations!