Passed the WebLogic Developer�s 6.0 Certification Exam.
I probably spent too much time studying the harder topics (got most all of the Transaction, Clustering, and JMS questions correct), but not enough on the shorter topics (missed a few on Database Connectivity and Connection Pooling).
Curiously, very few xml questions on my exam (however, some colleagues who took the exam did have a few). Nothing on the xml registry or the config.xml file, and only a few on the structure and content of deployment descriptor tags. The rest of the exam was pretty evenly spread among clustering, transactions, ejbs, servlets/jsp, rmi, jms, deploying, Admin Console configuration, and even a few on CORBA.
Hopefully this lends some credibility to the study guide I�ve put together and distributed to quite a few people. The latest version is 1.5, but if you�ve already gotten an earlier copy, no need to request new version. The only addition is of WebLogic security (read
Programming WebLogic Security, and I�ve re-arranged the order of a few things (such as coming back to Message Driven Beans only after you�ve gotten a good understanding of
EJB 2.0 and JMS).
Also, although BEA outlines 9 sections on their
Certification Page, in the exam there was only 8. The "Develop WebLogic Components with Vendor Tools" was not tested. The
SCJP exam is also no longer a pre-requisite.
[This message has been edited by Joe McGuire (edited July 10, 2001).]