Hi,
I have cleared SCWCD Exam last Saturday with a score of 81%.
I have followed only HFSJ book for the exam preparation, and i
have preapred for nearly one and half months.
My perception about the exam is, if you get the concepts clearly from HFSJ book(you should learn the concepts practically by implementing everything ), you can get 80%(since i have got the same
).
To get more than that, definitely you should go through the Specifications completely(hope it is difficult to do this, since it is highly technical) or you should purchase some test preapration kits(hope they might have better questions for you to prepare for the exam).
I have taken nearly some 15 mock exams that are available free in the Internet including Java Ranch's mock exam. But really they are not much helpful, as the questions in the SUN exam are tougher than the questions in those exams.
But you can expect the questions in the Exam, in the same level of toughness, as it is in the HFSJ Book. I have taken the final mock exam in the book on the previous day of my Exam, and i have scored 79%.
Actually i was expecting some thing more on the real Exam, but i have got 81%, just 2% more than what i have got in my final Mock exam. So, you can very well judge yourself by taking the mock exam in the HFSJ book.
With Regards
Vinoth Selvaraj