Passed with 84%

[herve attia]

Hello All,
I just passed SCWCD. It took me 2 weeks, 3-4 hours/day. I had 8 months of hand experience.
I read :
-"core jsp & servlet" book
-Jsp and servlet chapter from "J2EE applications and Bea weblogic server" book
-article about "listener"
But mainly, I prepared myself using JWebPlus and SCWCD@Whiz mock exam. It was VERY HELFUL, those exams are close to the real one !!
I will congratulate the people who have participed to this link http://www.javaranch.com/scwcdlinks.jsp
So now, I have to work on SCJD....to complete the whole Sun Java Certification Technologies !!
Regards,
herve attia
SCJP, ? , SCWCD, SCEA

[Reda Mokrane]

Congratulations!!
good luck for the SCJD

[Rashid Ali]

Congratulation for passing these exam..
Good luck for the next one...

[Axel Janssen]

Congratulations.
Good luck for next one.

[Fei Ng]

Congratulations!!

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

Congrats.
Good luck on SCJD.
- satya

[Sita Kotamraju]

Congrats!!! Good Luck on the next one...

[Michael Gavryuchkov]

Congratulations!

[Ashik Uzzaman]

Congrats Herve, running on a nice track! U'll definitely replace the '?' with SCJD in short future....
To exam point, was there any drag-and-drop question? Any design pattern question out of the 4 mentioned? Any question poorly asked? And any time-shortage to u? :roll:

[herve attia]

Thanks all !
Ashik,

To exam point, was there any drag-and-drop question? Any design pattern question out of the 4 mentioned? Any question poorly asked? And any time-shortage to u?
Yes a few (3) drag-and-drop questions asking for the name of some web-xml tags.
Yes. 3-4 questions straightforward about design pattern patterns...mainly around value object.
time-shortage is fine. I had 20 mn left to review marked questions.
10-15 questions with Jsp/servlet code. You need to remember methods you have to implement for any listeners interface.
IMHO, the exam had some tricky questions about state/session management.....
For instance :
[real question deleted - Jim]
Don't worry. This exam is really easier in terms of preparation. I regret you have to memorize by heart some tags name or methods name...they should replace them by conceptual questions.
Good luck !
Regards
[ January 20, 2002: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]

[Poonam Akash]

Congratulation herve!
what did you do for drag n drop qs.as i saw people saying that they had they faced problems in those qs.what is you opinion??
Bye,
Poonam

[Ashu Garg]

Congs herver. great job done
ashu

[herve attia]

[real exam question deleted - Jim]
Poonam,
Concerning drag&drop questions, I didn't faced any problems. For me, drag&drop questions is when the system asks you to enter your answer in a textfield ?!
Anyway, don't worry about those kind of questions, the exam contains 70% of very simple one !! ....SCWCD is the easier exam of the whole Java Certification Technologies !!
Regards
[ January 20, 2002: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]

[faiza haris]

Congrats !!!
which design patterns did u study...the ones mentioned in the objective? and plz also tell where did u study it from?
Did u read the patterns from the Chintan referred book? Has anyone read them all? or just the ones related to the obj?
Thanx for the time and support!

[Manjunath Subramanian]

I am sorry Herve, i forgot to congratulate you on clearing the exam with a good score.
Congratulations!!!
And thanks for the encouragement.
All the best on SCJD!!

[herve attia]

faiza,
which design patterns did u study...the ones mentioned in the objective? and plz also tell where did u study it from?
Did u read the patterns from the Chintan referred book? Has anyone read them all? or just the ones related to the obj?

Well, I didn't really need to study Design pattern for this exam...because I already did for SCEA.
For the SCEA, you use to refer to
-"Design Pattern" book [Gamma, Helm...] GOF. Also, refer to this great link http://www.patterndepot.com/put/8/JavaPatterns.htm
- Core J2EE patterns [aluk crupi] book. Also, refer to this link http://www.iplanet.ne.jp/developers/ias-samples/jps1.1.1/docs/patterns/
Regards,

[ersin eser]

Congrats !!
BUT please edit your post and delete the question
Do NOT risk your certifications ! SUN is very serious about cheating and JavaRanch will NOT tolerate this. !!!

[herve attia]

BUT please edit your post and delete the question
Do NOT risk your certifications ! SUN is very serious about cheating and JavaRanch will NOT tolerate this. !!!
oops !!! Thanks Jim to remove the question
...it was not my intention to disturb the Javaranch spirit !!
...anyway, we don't need cheating to succeed this exam
Regards