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Passed today - 94%

 
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Hi Ranchers!

I took SCWCD today and passed with a score of 94% - 4 mistakes.

Session Management - 85%
Bulding JSP Pages Using Standard Actions - 75%
Building JSP Pages Using Tag Libraries - 87%
J2EE Patterns - 83%
everything else - 100%

Answering questions took me exactly 1h, next 40 mins took me to review marked questions and to go through all the questions to verify my answers.

I learned from HFSJ (had 76% on the final exam (answered in exactly 1h without verifying my answers)). In addition, I posted a few posts to this forum (thanks for answers, guys!).

I also had SCWCD tutorial from IBM's Developer Works, but it didn't teach me anything new (just browsed it after HFSJ and seen I knew almost everything).

I also looked in Whizlabs simulator, but didn't like it, some of the questions were from 1.3 so I quickly resigned using it.

Next, I looked into Mikalai Zaikin's notes, I found some items new for me there, but dropped it without reading everything.

Ah, and I also took JavaRanch mock exam, but that was easy one...

So, in summary: HFSJ is definietly enough to take an exam, but one needs look into details.
And what now? Hard to say... I think I'll stop my certifications for now (well, I took all these 3 certs just for 50$ - SCJP 5.0 beta gave free voucher for SCWCD, SCJA beta was free...:-) And for Poland, 150$ is not that cheap But who knows - if I decide to continue my certification progress, it will probably be SCJD or SCMAD)
 
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Congratz !
 
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Congratulations
 
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Congratulations !!!

 
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Congrotulations
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Congrates
 
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Congratulations
 
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Originally posted by Adam Czysciak:
Hi Ranchers!

I took SCWCD today and passed with a score of 94%



Congratz ! Great score !
 
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congratulations !!!

While on this ..let me ask you, are the questions of the type in the HFSJ final mock exam ? Well in the HFSJ most of the questions are like "choose all that apply" ..is it the same in the actual exam ...or is it like choose 1 or choose 2 ? Meaning selecting a specific set of ans to a question?
 
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Congratulations!!!
 
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Congrats
 
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Thanks everyone :-)

Originally posted by mid:
congratulations !!!
While on this ..let me ask you, are the questions of the type in the HFSJ final mock exam ? Well in the HFSJ most of the questions are like "choose all that apply" ..is it the same in the actual exam ...or is it like choose 1 or choose 2 ? Meaning selecting a specific set of ans to a question?



The introduction to final exam in HFSJ gives you the answer. Real exam gives you the number of correct answers. About questions - most are easier than in HFSJ, but some were as difficult as HFSJ's ones.
 
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Congratulations.......
gr8 score

 
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Outstanding score, Adam! Welcome to the wall and thanks for sharing your story.
 
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Congrats Adam! That's an AWESOME score!

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thanks for your valuable suggestions
 
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Congrats Adam! Did you read the SPECs too?
 
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Congratulations
 
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Congrats!!!

Help me out to start my stuff towards that... share some of the experiences and the materials you have...
 
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very nice score Adam!
 
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Congrads Adam Czysciak !!!

Good Score !!!
 
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