Well I got 52% I studied the OCA 8 guide once. And once overed it briefly . I used the enthuware practice exams and OCA 8 practice Tests
Here are some examples of where I got tripped up:
Ternary operator: there were a bunch of unary increment and decrements pre and post variables , then assignments then a nested ternary expression whose result was an assignment to an int ! I don’t remember the question per say but remember seeing something similar in enthuware only this was far more complicated…
Exceptions and it had variable scope within the code showing up in the catch and finally with return statements..
Multiple questions on multi dimensional arrays
There was even a question on equals (and equivalence, I think) for local date objects ….
But I must say this: from the practice exams that I was in the 60% - 70ish ball park enthuware and OCA practice questions… clearly not enough….just like they both indicate.
I am between work. My last position before the company bankrupted late 2019 was of a
Quality assurance engineer…two years ago the company went from
water fall SDLC to Agile. This is where I started to discover that if I want to stay in IT learning to code is very important
I have picked up other certifications from scrum.org, scrum alliance, ASTQB and UCSC Silicon Valley Extn. This one was going to by my last. I have never failed before
I know
Java, but I don’t know Java
this from taking a 8 or 10-week once-in-a-week class .All I want to do is be able to offer programming skills when I got back to work. And build good automation projects… not just be a certified someone. This to say I was sitting front of these practice questions for long hours before the exam.
The recall on questions are so hazy because I was so exhausted. I couldn’t bring myself to think through one more problem and remember just skimming mindlessly through it towards the end …maybe it was a frozen brain or maybe I shouldn’t code !!!
Sorry not a pity party. I want to reappear but my confidence has taken a bad beating. I literally can tell you answers to most of the questions on enthuware just like the simulation warns..Am not sure what I can do to reset my head and start over … any suggestions are welcome