Ragavan Ram

i'm happy that i cleared in the exam On Aug 25th.
Have nothing new to share with you all, except that discussion forum and all the links provided on this site has helped me a lot in clearing the exam.
Thanks a lot to all the moderators. Just a note to all exam aspirants - i'm totally new to XML and doesn't had any work experience on it. As of my personal experience, one month preparation (approx 2hrs each day) would be more than sufficient to clear the exam. its a hectic race against time during the exam, unless you have a very fast CPU.
BTW, i'm waiting for the past couple of weeks to get my certificates from IBM. Any idea regarding how long before i can get it?
Thanks once again,
Ragavan
Sun Certified Java Programmer
IBM Certified Developer in XML & Related Technologies V1

i'm happy that i cleared in the exam On Aug 25th.
Have nothing new to share with you all, except that discussion forum and all the links provided on this site has helped me a lot in clearing the exam.
Thanks a lot to all the moderators. Just a note to all exam aspirants - i'm totally new to XML and doesn't had any work experience on it. As of my personal experience, one month preparation (approx 2hrs each day) would be more than sufficient to clear the exam. its a hectic race against time during the exam, unless you have a very fast CPU.
BTW, i'm waiting for the past couple of weeks to get my certificates from IBM. Any idea regarding how long before i can get it?
Thanks once again,
Ragavan
Sun Certified Java Programmer
IBM Certified Developer in XML & Related Technologies V1

Hi Rob
iam working in Ingres for a very long time [8 yrs]
Got thru SCJP 2.0 recently and iam also around to switch over to Java platform. Had worked on a Java project for a couple of mos though most of my experience r still w/ Ingres.

Not sure whether a SCJP + a Java project [hardly a couple of mos] will help to get a job .
Ram

Folks,
iam joining the big queue :-)) of JCP , having scored 72%
(though not a good score!!!) , really had a lot of satisfaction, after cleared in the exam Yesterday.
Prepared for the past 5 weeks & made use of the foll. books
Complete Java 2 Certification - RHE
JAVA Exam Cram - Bill Brogden
Exam is not so easy & at the same time it's not very difficult , say No : 6 in the range of difficulty 1-10.
Have been watching this site since Nov '00 . I do got a lot of info thru this , compared to the above books.
Special thanks to all the moderators and especially maha anna.. for her excellent collection of javaranch postings
and links... (Took around 12-15 Mock tests of her collection)
Thx to Ajith for his invaluable contribution of answers in javaranch...
To be honest, i wld have not got thru the exam w/o referring this site. it's really valuable and must for all exam aspirants
Thx again