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Java 2 Certification Training Guide
by Jamie Jaworski Hardcover: 612 pages Dimensions (in inches): 1.76 x 9.53 x 8.22 Publisher: Que ISBN: 1562059505; 1st edition (July 1999) Amazon.com: With full coverage of the three latest Sun Java certification exams, Java 2 Certification Training Guide provides an excellent resource for any Java programmer prepping for these tests. The best thing about this book is its insider-track perspective on three Sun exams. This book concentrates on the Programmer exam (which comprises well over half the book) but also addresses the Architect and Developer tests. Since the author has worked with Sun to help develop the actual exams, he is a worthy guide to the material here. And as the author himself points out, even if you are a great Java programmer, passing these exams isn't easy because they include details--and sometime obscure features--that you don't use every day. Even if you are an experienced Java developer, you will appreciate the author's thorough tour of Java language fundamentals, core classes, and packages. Even the book's numerous tables present Java information efficiently. Rather than a general guide to Java programming, the presentation is geared closely to what you'll need for these certification tests. Another standout feature here are the review questions, which follow Sun's format and style as well as the inclusion of a sample computer-based exam on CD-ROM. For readers seeking a higher level of Java certification, the book provides everything you will need for the Architect and Developer exams too. Besides a review of Java APIs like JDBC and Remote Method Invocation (RMI), you will find material on the basics of distributed systems, including short sections on CORBA and DCOM. For Developer certification, the book lists dos and don'ts for writing successful code on the exam. With its mix of expert guidance and challenging sample test questions, Java 2 Certification Training Guide makes for an effective guide to getting certified on today's Java 2 platform. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: test preparation for the Sun Certified Programmer, Architect, and Developer Exams; Java language fundamentals; core packages; threads; AWT; event handling; graphics; I/O; Java object-oriented and distributed architectures; security; JDBC; and RMI. Book Description: One of the best ways for a Java programmer to stand out from the crowd is to become a Sun Certified Java Programmer, Developer, or Architect. This book helps Java developers prepare for all three certification exams. One of the strengths of this book is that it is extremely focused--it doesn't contain extraneous information, a history of Java, or background on related technologies. This book gives readers exactly what they need to pass the exams. This book also contains a uniques test engine (written in Java by the author) to help readers assess their skills and become confident with the structure of the exams. From the Back Cover: One of the best ways for a Java programmer to stand out from the crowd is to become a Sun Certified Java Programmer, Developer, or Architect. This book helps Java developers prepare for all three certification exams. One of the strengths of this book is that it is extremely focused--it doesn't contain extraneous information, a history of Java, or background on related technologies. This book gives readers exactly what they need to pass the exams. This book also contains a uniques test engine (written in Java by the author) to help readers assess their skills and become confident with the structure of the exams. Customer Reviews Good text but too many mistakes, January 5, 2000 Reviewer: Gilbert Baron from Minnesota It is unfortunate. This book could be one of the best. It certainly tries to give the right amount of information at the right level and in many ways it succeeds. The bad news is that it is riddled with errors. Especially galling is that most of the errors are in the practice exam and review questions at the end of each chapter. In some cases they are totally wrong and in other cases they interchange answers. Another problem is that the book promises a forum on page 5 and posting of corrections on the web site. It does not exist, the site has only practice exams and they fail to load. Not very encouragning for a book that purports to show you how to program in Java. The author ignores all email. Okay but not great, March 20, 2002 Reviewer: Victor Peters from Santa Clara, CA USA This book is adequate as a supplement as you prepare for the exam , but it is not exceptional. There were a couple questionable topics, in particular, be cautious of the explanation it gives of polymorphism. The coverage of the Developer exam is very brief, but if you are buying the book only to pass the programmer exam, you should probably do fine. Personally, I found The Complete Java 2 Certificaion Study Guide to be clearer and more effective. Not the first book I would purchase to prepare for the exam, January 17, 2002 Reviewer: joeygoose from Westborough, MA United States In preparation for the Java 2 Programmer exam, I worked through this, and two other texts; "A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification" by Mughal and Rasmussen, and "Java 2 Exam Prep" by Bill Brogen. This book, in my opinion, was the weakest of the three. I would only recommend it as a supplemental source of practice questions once you have worked through another certification guide (or two). Although this book does cover all of the major areas of the exam (test# 310-025), it is missing quite a bit of the syntactical minutia that the exam is so notorious for containing. It is also my opinion that this book does not contain enough "debugging" type review questions - where you a presented with a block of code and asked what (if anything) is syntactically incorrect. This type of question wass very common on the version of the exam that I recently took. If you are preparing for the exam, I think your best bet is "A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification" by Mughal and Rasmussen. If you reach a point at which you can answer all of the review and practice questions in this book, you are probably more than prepared to take a shot at certification. I'd also like to recommend the three Marcus Green practice tests (available from javaranch.com). They are an excellent last-minute study tool and an accurate indicator of how well you will do on the actual exam. My actual score turned out to be a few points higher than my average score on these practice tests. Good Luck!!! Just an overview, November 9, 2001 Reviewer: A reader from San Francisco, CA United States Don't expect to get away with only this book if going beyond the Programmer Cert. |
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