I started study using Alain Trottier's "Web Component Developer Exam" book, however this is (IMHO) a bad book to use: the examples dont match the output, there are huge gaps in the theory, and there are bad typos. With no erratta page on Alain Trottier's or the publisher's web sites, it is just not worth using.
On advice gleened at JavaRanch, I swapped to Deshmukh & Malavia's "SCWCD Exam Study Kit". This is a great book, thoroughly explaining the topics, and making it all makes sense in the big picture. I am actually keeping this book because I can see it will be useful in the future.
There were a few questions and answers in the exam that I wasn't happy with. One example was a question that was clearly asking for "Front Controller" design
pattern, however the only recognizable design pattern in the answers was MVC. I chose "Front Constructor"
and got 100% for my design patterns section. :roll:
I lost most of my marks in the exception handling areas. This coincides with the questions that I had to type in answers, so I suspect that my answers didnt match the required answers (improper case or too much typing or too little typing
)
Anyway, on to
SCEA with the help of JavaRanch of course