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Dear All,

I'm the author of Voodoo Exam & I created it back in 2002 for my certification since I couldn't afford it at the time. I uploaded the same for the community. Since it was created when I was a noob myself & the fact that it was the SCJP for 1.2 back then, some of questions were bad or ouright incorrect.

Over the weekend I've quickly put up a website - http://www.irixtech.com - where users can now take the exams online. Planning on supporting it via google ad's, donations, etc & even if I don't generate enough revenue through these means, I don't mind paying for it(as long as it's within my means), something to give back to the commuity for the help it has given me alll along.

So far I've put up one exam online based on the first SCJP objective - Declarations, Initialization and Scoping - http://www.irixtech.com/mock-exam/declarations-initialization-and-scoping. The original download is still available but with only about 140 questions & the online exam is included in the download. The download requires registration on the website.

This is the first time I'm letting my website go public & I don't know how my hosting server will react. If you see outages be sure to email me - gnashes30@yahoo.com - with "Outage" in the subject field.

Website agenda -
* Provide a comprehensive website for SCJP aspirants, complete with mock exams, articles, etc
* Keep it free

Website Features -
* Take exams online
* Go back to previous scores & review the questions & answers you've taken in the past
* Forums to discuss the questions, etc

Future Plans
* Atleast 30 questions for each of the objectives of SCJP(in the next couple of weeks)
* Run metrics on answered questions & provide a random test where users failed to answer correctly - tough exam
* Create a newer & better version of Voodoo Exam, the current question creation module needs to be updated & need to save exam results locally

How can you help
* Create mock exams for end users & I can host them
* Create articles to share with end users
* Give me your thoughts, feedback, comments, etc
* Link to my website from yours, would be glad to exchange links
* Let your friends, students, co-workers know about this
* Advertise on my site
* Donate(currently as little as $10 a month) to keep the site running. Donate more to make me write more quality questions
* Buy the questions created by me
* Sponsor the creation of new & downloadable Voodoo Exam & you can use it in your publication for free, I will retain rights to the software
* Be advised that any content, mock exams, etc. that you provide will be your copyright but you'll give me a royalty free license to host it, etc. Please read the terms & the privacy policy on the website.

I'll need to balance work & this site so please be patient if you don't here from me immediately.

Send feedback to gnashes30@yahoo.com with "Voodoo Exam" in the subject line.

Thank you for taking the time to read this & good luck with your cert .

Ashish Hareet
gnashes30@yahoo.com
[ June 16, 2008: Message edited by: Ashish Hareet ]
 
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This sounds good Aashish. As it is we have very few mock tests for scjp5 onwards. Thanks
 
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