Dear All,
I am too much happy today, on the TOP OF THE WORLD. Met my and all of yours expectations. Scored 96%.
Thanks Thanks a lot for your wishes and help in answering my questions. It really helped.
As asked by ashik, i would be happy to assist anyone preparing for scwcd. My personal
email id is:
rajat_singla@rediffmail.com.
Here is my success story:
First of all i would like to tell everyone that SCWCD is SIMPLER than
SCJP. There are not
much trick involved in it. The most important points for success from my experience:
1.) SPECS (JSP1.2 and
Servlets 1.3) are MUST
2.) Knowledge of DTD's is highly important
3.) Taglibraries objectives can take your score from low to very high.
Here are the resources i used:
a.) Gone thru the specs twice :
http://java.sun.com/aboutJava/communityprocess/first/jsr053/index.html. It covers most of the areas.
b.) For design
patterns:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/blueprints/design_patterns/index.html. All the questions were like, applying which design pattern given a scenario. Thus go thru the
j2ee design patterns.. thoroughly. Some people said that they faced questions from design pattenrs apart from the ones in objectives.
c.) Professional
JSP by wrox is a great book and
Java Servlets by o'rielly is great.
d.) I practiced on J2EE server. But
tomcat is even better.
e.) Security and Listeners topic needs little hard work.. generally people dont use much in practice atleast for me.
f.) scwcdwhiz tool at
www.whizlabs.com/jwhiz was a great help. It met my expectations. The best part i liked was, the proportion and style of questions almost matched the actual exam.
And guys as i told earlier, like scjp you dont need unlimited number of mock exams for practice. I gave so many when i cleared scjp. May be like scjp, before oct'2000 when the pattern got changed, the exam was easy checking mostly on syntax. Similarly currently SCWCD is a simlpler one. May be in near future some pattern gets changed and becomes tougher. May be its sun strategy to first create the market with comaparatively easier exam
I am not able to recollect all questions but following is the rough proportion of questions, im not 100% sure
Design patterns : 4
Security :3
Listeners :5
JSP basics: 8
Servlet basics : 9
reusable componets : 2
javabeans in jsp :3
taglibs (obj 11+12) : 8
structure and deployment of webapp: 3
server side expectations: 3
session : not able to recall
therad safe: not able to recall
It seems im still missing some questions.. but above is the rough estimation
One important thing unlike scjp, there were many (around 6-7) fill in the blanks questions asking you to type the method/class/interface name. But more or less there was no ambiguity. Got practice duing scwcdwhiz mocks.
Similar to scjp, you will have enuf time to complete the
test.
I would suggest all of you to MUST REVISE DTD's before the exam. It WILL Improve your score.
Another good thing for me: getting raise in my salary on this success. So once again i thank you all for the kind help and support.
Guys, YOU CAN CRACK SCWCD COOLLY. Its more of planning job. Very imortant to put right amount of efforst in right direction.
Going out for the party. Will come back and surely write more.Infact i've got great attachment with web components and would like to continue taking part at this great place for sharing.
ALL THE BEST TO ALL OF MY FRIENDS
rajat
Cool!
Nice analysis of the exam...'ll b of so help 4 us.... 
