Hat Vim

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Hi,
I do not have that book & in fact answers to all the questions in real exam is in the UML distilled already. So if you focus on the exam --> you already have best material.
Talking about practice, you should apply UML knowledge in some projects (maybe not official output, but just showing what would you do with newly learned literature) --> it helps a lot in memorize things and knowing how to infer UML & OOAD theory.
IBM 486 exam asks lots on scenario & practice, so you should focus and think by yourself
If you are interested in advance OOAD/UML topics to enforce it in your projects (486 exam focus on very fundamental things only). I would suggest other materials.
Hi Desai,
I don't have answer to your question, but I have a suggestion. Why don't you go taking the actual test? After quite a long time of studying and reading quite a few good material, you should be able to pass easily. Even if you don't pass, I think taking one real exam is ten times better than reading a material about that exam.
Vim
Question 1:
I hope you all solved this question at the moment. But I still have my answer here for later reference.
The answer is definitely: a
From little software practice, we all know that there is no need to have a function for a return message. From OOAD literature, Log object is being used, it doesn't recognize and call back its caller object.
Question 2:
Answer is: b & c. As Andrei said, the English here is unclear and Andrei's answer is too good to not supplement.
Hi,
I got 100%, and my answer is a & d.
a: View - model - persistence is proven architecture design for resue
d: This is more obvious, low coupling means more usable & maintainable and of course, reusable.
[This message has been edited by Hat Vim (edited April 25, 2001).]
Well, I guess the examination report provided by Prometric after you complete the exam is fine enough for that purpose.
From my point, knowledge gained after studying for that exam is much more effective than the report itself. It is definitely serving me in my current projects.
Hope this helps.
Hi,
The answer is a & c, and Michael's explanation is just fair enough.
There isno reason for b: The old database model is *not* designed for OO & new classes must refect the business entities of the system (not relect the old backend)
If you select d: means you keep the system in 2 layers; well, it's not that bad, but you will lose one of the requirement: "caters to high volume of requests"
And finally, I got 100% score on the pre-accessment test that have this question (hope this make senses to you)
Hi,
I think, no cert for this test is definitely reasonable. OOAD with UML is just standard knowledge for software development. It can be used together with development paltforms from IBM, Microsoft etc. but it's not theirs.
So there is no point that IBM will reward it (alone) one Big Blue certification (even it is required when you want Solution Developer cert).
But anyway, we should thank IBM for their effort to maintain such a good exam. They took the risk of developing a standard technology unbiased exam for software developer world, which I've never found from Microsoft, Novell or Cisco (well, I guess that IBM gains very little in this exam registration fee)