Roel De Nijs wrote:Hi Vincenzo,
First of all, a warm welcome to CodeRanch!
It all depends on your future plans. If you are interested in taking the OCPJP exam on short notice, then you should definitely go with OCPJP7 (as the 8 version isn't announced yet). More (valuable) info can be found here and here.
Hope it helps! Good luck!
Kind regards,
Roel
Sergej Smoljanov wrote:My own opinion:
if you plan pass OCPJP at autumn go to 1Z0-808.
if you plan pass OCPJP before summer go 1Z0-803.
if you plan pass OCPJP at summer than read topic from here: Upgrade from Java SE 7 OCP to Java SE 8 OCP and think about this topics + topic from 1Z0-804 i must know to pass OCPJP 8 (may be some original topic 1Z0-804 wold be erased) - i think this much information to study (if you are beginner) so you just reschedule exam on autumn or later and now prepare also to 1Z0-808.
reiterate this is my own opinion.
Sharmili Rameshbabu wrote:I do not have plans of giving OCPJP in short notice, in that case, should i be giving OCAJP 8 instead? Will the preparation for OCAJP 7 is sufficient for OCAJP 8 as well? (Exam Objectives wise!)
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My Exam Vocher is gonna expire soon! I will have to consider that also , and i do not see this SE 8 material in Enthuware as well..
Sharmili
Sharmili Rameshbabu wrote:I have been preparing for OCAJP 7 since 3 months, and planning to write it in next 2 days. At this point i have a doubt if i should write OCAJP 7 or 8.
I do not have plans of giving OCPJP in short notice, in that case, should i be giving OCAJP 8 instead? Will the preparation for OCAJP 7 is sufficient for OCAJP 8 as well? (Exam Objectives wise!)
Sharmili Rameshbabu wrote:My Exam Vocher is gonna expire soon! I will have to consider that also
Paul Anilprem wrote:Here is one point that I haven't seen mentioned before - While the difference in exam topic between 803 and 808 is very less, the style of questions in 808 is quite different. Based on our content developers' experience (who have taken production version of both the exams), questions in 808 are significantly tougher than 803. You will also find a lot more questions on 808 that trick you than what you would find in 803. Not just that, you will also need to know about boundary conditions (aka corner cases) for questions involving API methods.
Paul Anilprem wrote:Not just that, you will also need to know about boundary conditions (aka corner cases) for questions involving API methods.
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Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:Paul,
That wasn't my experience. i didn't find the OCAJP 8 to be significantly tougher than the OCAJP 7. Granted I haven't gotten my score yet since I took the beta.
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Paul Anilprem wrote:Could it be that they weeded out a few questions that were too easy from the beta for the production version?
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Roel De Nijs wrote:
As far as I know, you must schedule your exam before your exam voucher expires, otherwise you can't use your voucher as payment for the exam. But I believe there is no constraint that you must take the exam before your voucher expires. So assuming your voucher expires this sunday (January 18), you can schedule your exam today and choose March 31 as exam date (if of course this day is still available in the exam center of your choice).
Sharmili Rameshbabu wrote:This was really helpful, i was not aware of this fact, Thanks a lot!
Paul Anilprem wrote:Here is one point that I haven't seen mentioned before - While the difference in exam topic between 803 and 808 is very less, the style of questions in 808 is quite different. Based on our content developers' experience (who have taken production version of both the exams), questions in 808 are significantly tougher than 803. You will also find a lot more questions on 808 that trick you than what you would find in 803. Not just that, you will also need to know about boundary conditions (aka corner cases) for questions involving API methods.
So if you have any thoughts of taking 808 just because you are already prepared for 803, you will be in for a not so good surprise
HTH,
Paul.
Guillermo Ishi wrote:Actually, I can't agree with this part - "Not just that, you will also need to know about boundary conditions (aka corner cases) for questions involving API methods." Because I have no idea what it means. I'm sure I'm not the only one...
Guillermo Ishi wrote:If it makes you feel better, 100% would mean you could also instantly count a box of toothpicks dropped on the floor.
Guillermo Ishi wrote:In actual practice you're going to initialize the variables explicitly anyway, so aren't we really talking about edge cases?
Guillermo Ishi wrote:Or an array is always, always initialized even if it's primitives and local.
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Silviu Burcea wrote:I just tried your example with no NPE and IntelliJ IDEA still warns you that it way throw NPE. It seems that it's also a tricky scenario for IDEs too
Guillermo Ishi wrote:The real error message maybe ought to be " '= null' code has no effect"
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Sachin Tripathi wrote:What about enthuware based on 1Z0-808
Will it be out soon?
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David Mayer wrote:Hi guys, as I said in many occasions I would strongly suggest to forget about the Java7 Associate Certification - 1Z0-803 and definitely go for the Java8 Associate Certification - 1Z0-808.
David Mayer wrote:There really are many reasons behind this advice and the most important is that after April 2015, Oracle will no longer post updates of Java SE 7, so the focus it will be all about Java8!
David Mayer wrote:Features like Lambdas, Functional Interfaces, Default methods, Method References, Repeating annotations, Type Inference, Optional (for managing Null pointer exception), the Stream API and many other, are the present and future of the Java Programming Language, and cannot be left out from your own preparation.
Roel De Nijs wrote:It all depends on the personal needs and preferences.
Roel De Nijs wrote:Although that's true still many companies will have programs running on Java 7.
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David Mayer wrote:Please, read the title of the topic. Here we are not talking about personal needs or developing Java Applets for the Web. The topic is: Going for 1Z0-803 or 1Z0-808 thus I am assuming there are no personal preferences involved in this choice.
David Mayer wrote:Off course, this is totally true, but how this relates with the Certification? Furthermore, if you can develop application in Java8 I can assure you that will be easy to do the same in Java7 maybe using few external libraries. The opposite is definitely not true!
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