I am still unclear as to whether a 486 pass entitles one to a certification and presumably by definition a certificate. I have SCJP2 already. Can anyone explain it all clearly by examples please? John ------------------ John Coleman Sun Certified Programmer for the Java� 2 Platform jcoleman@sopra.co.uk Sopra Mentor www.sopra.co.uk
I don't believe the 486 test by itself gives you a certification. IBM gives out a "Solution Developer" certification for 3 tests: the Java 2 Cert you already have, the UML test, and some IBM tool (Visual Age for Java or WebSphere). I believe the UML test is a prereq. for some non-IBM certs. as well, but I am not sure about this.