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[Muhammad Farooq]

Dear Fellow Ranchers,
Just coming from the test center. Passed with 91% (53/59). I am really greatful to this site and all the ranchers (not mentioning any name for the fear of mistakenly forgetting anyone). The test was really very easy, 5 or 6 six question were very similar to Marcus Green Mock/jq+. I didn't had any fill in the textbox q's. 70-75% were code based q's. I had one q's with no correc answer which ask me for 2 correct ansers and one was with just one correct answer but asking for two answers.
The books I used was RHE and Exam Cram, and mock were Marcus Green, JQ+ and sun guoqiao.
The very important sections are IO, Threads, Inner classes, Collections, Event Handling, and FUNDAMENTALS.
The Section Analysis is as follows:
Declarations and Access Control....................75%
Flow control and exception handling................85%
Garbage Collection.................................100%
Language Fundamentals..............................100%
Operators and Assignments...........................85%
Overloadin,Overriding,Runtime Type & OO............100%
Threads.............................................85%
java.awt package...................................100%
java.lang package..................................100%
java.util package..................................100%
java.io package....................................100%

Now its time to give back, I am will be very happy to roam around here to raply any querry.
I don't know what to do Next, any suggestions ???
--Farooq

[Anonymous]

Congratulations Farooq...great score... !
Shyam
[This message has been edited by Shyamsundar Gururaj (edited November 01, 2001).]

[Guoqiao Sun]

Big congratulations, Farooq, that is the result we expect for a long time.
Best wishes to your future career!

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Guoqiao Sun
Sun Certified Programmer for Java™ 2 Platform
try my mock exam¹²³ at my homepage.

[Wasim Ahmed]

Good job Farooq !!!
Congratulations !!!
about the future, it all upto you. You give us your background and we may "suggest" something.

[Vikrama Sanjeeva]

congrats Mohammad
I am confused in few topics which i am askiing & discussing from different SCJP's.So plz. tell me what i have to do in i/o,awt,util to get 100% as u get .
Bye.
Viki.

[Muhammad Farooq]

Thanks Viki, Wasim, Guoqiao, Shyam for your wishes.
Viki, the most important thing in IO is to know the constructors, constructors , constructors . thats it. If you know what constructors are and how they behave and what is diff between their working, its more than enough to get 100%. For util and awt, I used RHE and Exam cram and did a lot of coding (there is no shortcut to experience) and give some sensible mock exam like Marcus , JQ+ (I would not recomment trying any hard mock as they didn't cater to the specific certification objective).
All the very best.
--Farooq
[This message has been edited by Muhammad Farooq (edited November 02, 2001).]

[Fei Ng]

So many people passed today.
Congratulations to all!!!

[leena rane]

Congrats Muhammad
nice score
All the best for your future

[Ashik Uzzaman]

Congrats Farooq, excellent job done man!
You were a regular company to us here, i remember. We had some nice times, right....
What are you planning next?
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Muhammad Ashikuzzaman (Fahim)
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java� 2 Platform
--When you learn something, learn it by heart!

[Manish Hatwalne]

Congrats Muhammad
Very good score man
I am sorry, I don't know how I missed wishing you earlier.
Enjoy your success,
- Manish

[Vikrama Sanjeeva]

Thanks Mohammad 4 ur expalnation.After reading ur post i feel that little bit i am catching the technique 4 i/o.

the most important thing in IO is to know the constructors, constructors , constructors

Can u tell me that which classes is most imp.I have 2 do all?
Bye.
Viki.
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Count the flowers of ur garden,NOT the leafs which falls away!

[Honggui Li]

Hi, Farooq :
Never doubt you can pass it !
A late congratulations. More than a month ago, i passed the exam, and i received your wishes. Also, i saw your name appeared so many times when people cleared their test. Now, it is time to ...........
From my experience(since i am a SCJP for months), just because i got a certification, doesn't necessary mean i am a "real" programmer. I still met a lot of problems when i was coding. There is a long way to go. We have to keep going.
Anyway, Farooq, you are a nice guy, you will have a bright future.
best wishes
honggui

[Muhammad Farooq]

Thanks Honggui, Manish, Ashik, FEI and Leena, I really admire your wishes and I cant forget your help. Honggui Manish Ashik Leena.

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Muhammad Farooq
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform
[This message has been edited by Muhammad Farooq (edited November 03, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by Muhammad Farooq (edited November 03, 2001).]

[Muhammad Farooq]

Viki, I will recommend you going thru API. See the whole IO package, see the hierarchy of classes, which classes are abstract(abstract classes can't be instantiated and I think there may be atleast one q's instantiating the abstarct class InputStream or OutputStream). The most important thing is the constructor as what can be possible parameter of the constructors. Further you may also refer to RHE, which I used for my preparation. If you feel lost during the exam, dont be panic, use your common sense in choosing the best answer by POE (Process of Elimination)of wrong answer.
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Muhammad Farooq
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform
[This message has been edited by Muhammad Farooq (edited November 03, 2001).]

[ashok khetan]

congrats man! nice score!
keep it up!
ashok

[Anonymous]

Nice Score man
All the Best for U R Future!

[Dave Thomas]

I know what you mean about exam errors. I passed today with 53/59 (which is actually 89%) and had a question asking for 2 answers when there was only. I think there was a typo in one of the answers, but it wasnt too obvious, I didnt really pick it up until after the exam when I was thinking about it.

Have to thank JavaRanch as well. Couldnt have done it without them... or Marcus Greens website. So much information in one place!

[ersin eser]

Congrats !!!

[Muhammad Farooq]

Thanks everyone, Javaranch and all the ranchers help me a lot, I can't forget how everything and everyone in this forum helped me out in accompolishing this title of SCJP2.

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Muhammad Farooq
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform

[Anonymous]

Congrats man !
~Kumar

[Muhammad Farooq]

Thanks Kumar.
Isn't it great that I got my certificate in just 8 days, I passed the exam on Nov 1, and today(Nov 9)I got the certificate from Sun.
cheers.

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Muhammad Farooq
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform

[Ashik Uzzaman]

And some of us got it at 26th or 27th day! Another congrats for early achieving the cert man...
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Muhammad Ashikuzzaman (Fahim)
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java� 2 Platform
--When you learn something, learn it by heart!

[Muhammad Farooq]

yeah ,you are right Ashik, if I am not missing you got your certificate with your name misspelled on it, have you got the replacement.

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Muhammad Farooq
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform

[Roger Chan]

Originally posted by Muhammad Farooq:
Thanks Viki, Wasim, Guoqiao, Shyam for your wishes.
Viki, the most important thing in IO is to know the constructors, constructors , constructors . thats it. If you know what constructors are and how they behave and what is diff between their working, its more than enough to get 100%. For util and awt, I used RHE and Exam cram and did a lot of coding (there is no shortcut to experience) and give some sensible mock exam like Marcus , JQ+ (I would not recomment trying any hard mock as they didn't cater to the specific certification objective).
All the very best.
--Farooq
[This message has been edited by Muhammad Farooq (edited November 02, 2001).]

Hi Muhammad,
What do you think about the difficulty level of JQ+ mock exam? Is it too difficult that might not cater to the specific certification objective or it is just about right?
Thanks

[Muhammad Farooq]

Hi Roger,
I found the JQ+ to be retalively harder than the actual test but it was very helpful for the preparation not only as the testing tool but also as the learning tool, and don't get upset or disappointed with the low scoree on it. I would strongly recommend Marcus Green's three mock exam and JQ+ as the best mock exams and closest to real exam.
All the very best in your endeavours.

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Muhammad Farooq
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform

[Ashik Uzzaman]

Yah Farooq, i got the complete replacement! I lost my coatpin and was releived when i recieved a new packet with coatpin,new certificate and congratulation letters....

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Muhammad Ashikuzzaman (Fahim)
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java� 2 Platform
--When you learn something, learn it by heart!