Rainer Bischof

In case you do have some experience in design just get the Cade study guide. It contains enough to know about Patterns if you know enough about what situations a certain way of coding is applied and just need the "official" name for it.
Afterall a Proxy or a visitor is nothing fancy or special, it's just a specific name for a common sense solution to a re-occuring problem.

If you need more use the Head First on design patterns, but stay away from GoF unnles you really want a hard read!

Rainer

Personally I think the Cade study guide is an excellent summary for the design patterns. I read the GoF book a couple of years back and started to read the first pages last month before I went to SCEA #1 - I hated every page.

Once you have some experience you will know the patterns anyway - you just need to learn the names and Cade is good enough for that.

Rainer

I second that they are asking 2.0 questions (I took part 1 in June 2007). I had two question -which I obviously can't reproduce here- that clearly indicated the EJB2.0 specification:
1) A question that included an answer regarding relationship modelling
2) A question that included an answer to use direct bean-bean references

In one of the case it was easy to find the correct answer because it was a "choose the correct 3 of the 4 answers" and one of these was totally dumb. Of the remaining three answers one was the EJB 2.0 answer.

I had 100% in sections EJB and EJB Container Model so I know that the answers are correct.

But other these two occurences the questions were pretty neutral and would even work with .