Bhagvan K

The pass rate does not come up on the certificate. I don't think pass rate matters when you are looking for jobs. A good percentage is surely a plus point.
bhagvan

Basic UML will help you out surely in understanding of the examples specified in books on design patterns. You can pick
martin folwer's uml distilled or craig larman's applying uml and patterns.

Check out the following links about command bean framework:
http://service2.boulder.ibm.com/devtools/news0300/artpage2.htm
http://developer.novell.com/research/devnotes/1999/december/03/02.htm

There is no prerequisite for scea.
check http://suned.sun.com/US/certification/java/certification_details.html#architect

You are right. initParameter is from servlet configuration (deployment descriptor ) & attribute is the object which is shared in the application scope.

Bhagvan K
SCJP2

check out these links:
white papers http://www.rational.com/products/rup/whitepapers.jsp
The Ten Essentials of RUP
http://www.therationaledge.com/content/dec_00/f_rup.html
Using the RUP for Enterprise e-business Transformation
http://www.therationaledge.com/content/jan_01/f_rupent_jb.html

you can configure this with pageCheckSeconds
check out this link:
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs60/programming/weblogic_xml.html#jsp-parameters

BEA (Weblogic) as a company is performing greatly. For technical inputs about which is better,
http://www.javaranch.com/ubb/Forum40/HTML/000298.html
Bhagvan K
SCJP2

This link may help you : transactions in servlet
http://developer.iplanet.com/appserver/samples/transactions/docs/GlobalWebTransaction.html

the packages are javax.servlet.jsp.*;
and javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.*;
Check these links for good examples and tutorial on taglib:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/doc/JSPTags.html
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Books/cservletsjsp/chapter14.pdf

You can use a servlet engine JRUN. the following link has details about configuring it with IIS.
http://devcentral.iftech.com/articles/Java/intro_Servlet_JSP_Engine/default.php

Check this link:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-1998/jw-11-techniques.html

check this website for System Development Life Cycle:
http://www.depaul.edu/~danderso/POWERP/POWERP2/sld003.htm