Session Bean - Mock Exam Question

[Sandesh Tathare]

Please refer to following questions:

BQ13. Which statements about stateful and stateless session beans are true?
(Choose all that apply.) 
a). Only stateful session beans support transactions.
b). Only stateful session beans can be passivated.
c). Only stateful session beans have a 'setSessionContext' method.
d). Both stateful and stateless session beans can support overloaded 'ejbCreate' methods.
e). Both stateful and stateless session beans can implement the 'javax.ejb.SessionSynchronization' interface.
f). Both stateful and stateless session beans can have instance variable state. 
Answer: b, f 
 
BQ14. Which statements about a session bean class are true? (Choose all that apply.) 
a). They can be marked 'final'
b). They can support overloaded constructors.
c). Their business methods can be 'private'.
d). Their business method names must start with "ejb".
e). Their 'ejbCreate' methods must not be declared as 'final'. 
Answer: e 

For question 13, answer f means one is answering based on whether it is technically possible or not. If we keep same logic in mind while answering next question say 14 answer b] They can support overloaded constructors should be correct, as long as class provides a default constructor.

I tried it out and it works perfectly fine. Technically it's possible, and I know it does not make much sense to overload a constructor. But yes, it's possible. So I selected it as answer. Now how do one answer such questions?

Any thoughts on above please?
[ November 04, 2004: Message edited by: Sandesh Tathare ]

[Nathaniel Stoddard]

Questions like this would most likely be weeded out during the beta testing period. You will get very few, if any, ambiguous question on the actual exam. I wouldn't sweat it. (I always test poorly on mock exams because of this very reason; when I take the actual exam, I do much better.)

[Sandesh Tathare]

Nathaniel,

Thanks a lot. Even I have similar experience.

IMO, mock exams should not discourage and shake one's confidence. How about all BCD Certified people developing a quality Mock Test jointly? I am for it. Any one willing to join?