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Java 2 Exam Prep, Second Edition (Exam: 310-025)
by William B. Brogden, Marcus Green, Bill Brogden, Bill Brodgen Hardcover: 640 pages Dimensions (in inches): 1.91 x 9.62 x 7.88 Publisher: The Coriolis Group ISBN: 1588801403; 2nd Bk edition (July 23, 2001) Book Description: Java 2 Exam Prep, 2nd Edition is the updated and revised version of one of our best selling titles in the Exam Prep series. This content-rich and highly detailed book gives the reader not only thorough test preparation for the Sun Certified Java Programmer, Java 2 exam (310-025), but also serves as a valuable on-the-job reference. The book covers key test content and objectives like learning Java language fundamentals, creating Ingram: One way to build test confidence is to study example questions similar to those on the real exam. And that is what this book provides--numerous examples for complete practice. Serving as a complement to all study guides and training materials for the Sun Certified Java JDK 1.2 Programmer Exam, this book also includes sections on proven test-taking strategies, warnings on trick questions, a special Cram Sheet, and more. Book Info: Content-rich and highly detailed book gives the reader not only thorough test preparation for the Sun Certified Java Programmer, Java 2 Exam 310-025, but also serves as a valuable on-the-job reference. Covers key test content and objectives. CD-ROM included. About the Author: Bill Brogden (Austin, Texas) is a full time programmer and author with over 20 years of experience. Bill is an expert in several programming languages and currently focuses on the Java language, of which he has written five books. He has also developed the script-driven Java-based architecture for LANWright's online course delivery engines that is used to provide practice tests on a wide range of subjects. Customer Reviews Only half good, April 19, 2000 Reviewer: A reader from Portland, OR I just passed the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java(TM) Platform this morning after having read this book. This book was very good through chapter 6. The rest of the book gave me the impression that it was written by a Java1.0 programmer, or that the information was cut and pasted from a Java1.0 or Java1.1 exam preparation text. As a particular example, the discussion of the processEvent method of the Component class left me wondering. It's not something you usually have to deal with (use of the XXXXListener methods is preferable) except when doing custom event handling. So, I have to wonder when the event handling discussion begins with that particular topic. I do think that it was worth the $23 I paid for it because the language basics are covered very well. A main reason for my purchase was its brevity. It would not suprise me if there were better exam preparation guides available. Better coverage of the java.io package, threads and events is certainly possible. It is just the Exam "Cram" it promises to be., September 30, 2000 Reviewer: A 1-year old reader from Switzerland Hello all! The 28:th of September 2000 I passed the SCJP2 with score 88% on first try. This book was a great help for me to do it. It is just the Exam "Cram" it promises to be. It is NOT a beginners book. You need this book for fine tuning after you have the basics from another e.g. the "Java 2 Certification Study Guide". PROS: - It stresses the "hooks" that other books doesn't mention. Just such "hooks" are in the real exam. (Example what to watch out for in a switch statement). The book pin-points what to whatch out for common errors/misunderstandings. - The test questions in each chapter have good quality (not too easy). - Contains useful practical tips about how the test works. Tactics etc. - Very good Mock exam in the end. As the author suggests you should have at least 75% on the appended exam. - This book succeeds to be packed with useful information instead of just words. In around 300 pages you will get a very good understanding what is required of you to make it. - Thin/low weight. CONS: - Evem though I had version 5 of the book it stil has some basic typos not mentioned in the correction page (be sure to read the correction page). - Some topics like Threads, AWT and IO are mentioned briefly. But as said before this is a "Cram" book. For IO, AWT and Threads: -- I suggest as additions the book "Java 2 Certification Study Guide" plus the "real" Java 2 documentation from Sun and lots of test programs. My way: (I wanted to learn for life not just for the test.) - Read the excellent Java2 Certification Study Guide thoroughly. (A biginners guide). - Meanwhile make HEAPS of simple Java programs trying out things the book tries to teach. - Run your programs in debug mode to get a real feeling for it. - Make your own notes. - Read the book under review thoroughly! - Dive into the "real" Java2 documentation on some topics: IO, System, Strings. - To be comfortable I also read the javsoft trail for Collections. - Take a bunch of Mock Exams. You find a nice selection on: http://www.javaranch.com/maha/_Mock_Exams/_mock_exams.html I scored 17 on the 19 toughest questions exam on Bill Brogdens home page (http://www.lanw.com/java/javacert/) - I got several good tips in the www.sarga.com mock exams. The questions are good but the answeres have quiet a few errors. - I also found some really good hints in Mock Exam 3 by Marcus Green http://www.jchq.net/mockexams/exam3.htm All glory to ICHTYS! Hans Gyllensten Switzerland (hans_gyllensten@hotmail.com) This book is worthless. Buy another Certification Guide, May 24, 2002 Reviewer: A reader from MI Steer clear of this book. It is worthless. Instead, buy one of the countless other certification-training books avail on " I bought this book to do my final prep for the Java2 Programmer's exam (310-025). The book has plenty of practice questions and quizzes, which Coriolis says are designed to represent the same types of questions and programming problems in the actual exam. I foolishly assumed that was true. Nothing could be further from the truth! Take it from someone who HAS taken the certification exam: this book is worthless. It's chapter topics, practice questions, and study tips are about as misleading as they could possibly be. There was not a single question on the real exam, which bore any resemblance whatsoever, to anything in this book. Not only were the practice questions written in a completely different style than those of the exam, but they didn't even cover any of the units detailed in this book. The book actually diverted me from studying the proper elements of the Java language! It wasted my time and efforts in elements of the language which were never once even alluded to in the exam. Even the wording; the style of the practice questions, was off the target. You need to know the truth--because the book's cover and its preface both tout it as being written "based on the actual exam", by experts who have taken the exam, and using old exams as the model for their practice questions". This cl is extremely deceitful. Buy another study guide. Sufficient to get you through the exam, but nothing more., March 27, 2002 Reviewer: Oliver Kuo from Burnaby, BC Canada I used only this book to study for my exam, and I did all the practice questions in the book. When I took the exam, I was suprised to find that the questions on the actual exam are no where like the practice questions. In addition, the book does a poor coverage on Java IO so I failed the IO section of the exam miserably (and that section weighs heavily in the exam). To be fair, the book covers everything else nicely and did get me through the exam (although I barely passed it). I still use it as a reference from time to time. |
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