Tutorials for the Certification

[Venky Anant]

What are the good books for this certification and where can I find some good tutorials for the XML Certification.

Thanks and Regards
-Venky

[Dhiren Joshi]

Hi Venky,
These are the books and links which are good.

1.XML Specification guide is a very good book to know the finer details of XML.
2. Processing XML with Java by Eliot Rusty. Very good coverage of SAX/DOM.

3.www.zvon.org (XML Schema ,XSL)
http://www.zvon.org/index.php?nav_id=tutorials&mime=html
4.www.w3schools.com
5. XML Bible by Eliot Rusty (XPointers,XLink,XPath,XSL-FO).
The XML Bible, 2nd edition
Chapter 17: XSL Transformations
Chapter 18: XSL Formatting Objects
Chapter 19: XLinks
Chapter 20: XPointers
Chapter 24: Schemas
For security :
http://java.boot.by/wsd-guide/ch08.html#c8s1
I think if u do all these tutorials and read these books you should be fine.
HTH
Dhiren

[Arvindu]

Thanks Dhiren

The links are very much useful.

Do you have any sites for sample questions where we can work out like
SCJP.

I know basic of DOM ,DTD ,SAX ...

How long it will take time for prep for this exam

[Hari Vignesh Padmanaban]

Originally posted by arvind d:


Do you have any sites for sample questions where we can work out like
SCJP.

You can check out teh mock exams at

http://www.javaranch.com/xml/XMLexamList.jsp

I know basic of DOM ,DTD ,SAX ...

How long it will take time for prep for this exam

2-3 months !!! If you know schema and XSl i would say 1-2 months.

Also if you have worked a lot in XML related technologies, you can reduce teh time even furtehr

Unlike, SCJP thre are a lot of scenario base questions in this exam. So you have to have an indepth understanding of all teh XMl related tchnologies to be able to choose one over the other !!!

To get a hang of what teh questions would be like, take shashanks mock exam at

http://www.javaranch.com/xml/shashank/IBM141Mock.html

you can just take it without preparation to get a hang of what teh exam would look like !!!
Good luck for the exam

[Arvindu]

Thanks Hari

Planning to take in 1 month time..

Let me see how i can proceed with my preparation

[Dhiren Joshi]

Arvind,
I had 4 years XML experience and I put in just over a months time for preparation.
One important point to note. The mocks exams are very much simpler then the real exam.
Real exam has very lengthy scenario questions so recommend if u get some good XML mock cert programs like WhizLabs. I think that would be the best. I heard WhizLab questions are more difficult.
You need to know a very indepth knowledge of the XML technologies and when one is preferred over the other or when to apply which technology.
Best of luck for your preparation

HTH
Dhiren

[Arvindu]

That true Diren..

The WhizLabs XML simulater is pretty expensive

Am i right ? do we have any other cheaper ones...

[Dhiren Joshi]

True WhizLab is expensive but what I heard is that it is the best mocks.
Harder then the real exam. So at least u would know what to expect.
I scored very good scores in all free mocks b4 the exam 84% and above. But I wasnt expecting the kind of test I did and I scored below in the actual test . Mainly the scenario type of questions u need a good practice and u wouldnt get those questions any where free.

HTH
Dhiren