I passed
SCEA 5 part 1 today, scored 78%
Here is breakdown:
Application Design Concepts and Principles 55%
Common Architectures 87%
Integration and Messaging 83%
Business Tier Technologies 100%
Web Tier Technologies 75%
Applicability of
Java EE Technology 77%
Patterns 87%
Security 62%
I am not satisfied with this score, I should have scored better if I could understand the question better, some questions are lengthy specially for a Chinese like me, it took me a lot time to just finish the reading of the sentences. Overall time is very tight.
This is a tough
test. And I would be curious to know which questions I didn't score and why.
Here is the list of materials what I have used to prepare for this test:
1. Java Design Patterns (James W. Cooper)
2. Core
J2EE Pattern
3. Core Security Pattern
4. JEE 5 tutorial (
http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/)
5. EJB 3 spec (including JPA)
6.
JSF spec
7. JAX-WS spec
8.
http://www.geekinterview.com/question_details/5890
9.
http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/2.0/tutorial/doc/index.html
10.
http://java.boot.by/scea5-guide/
11. Whizlabs SCEA5 simulator
My overall feeling of this test is
1. Definitely not easy, exam time is tight
2. The tests of EJB3/JSF/JAX-WS, etc are at very high level; reading spec is not required
3. If you have limited time for preparation, material from www.geekinterview is most important, and probably the only
doc you need to read
4. Whizlabs SCEA5 simulator (or similar) not required at all, they are far too easy compared to the real exam, and too less JEE 5 stuff.
In the end, I would like thank you all
Cheers
