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my SCJP experience

February 12, 2009 by hhimanshu

This is my first post and I would like to share my experience with SCJP(1.5)
I was very much interetsed in learning Java and J2EE technologies but my current work profile has nothing to do with it. A couple of friends of mine motivated me to learn Java. At start it was very difficult for me to learn it from various sources like Sun tutorials , web sources and e-books.
Finally Sumit Uncle(this is the lingo which we use for each other) suggested me to read Core Java by Cay S. Horstman and Gary Cornell
This is a very good book for beginners and this helped me to understand all the concepts covered plus the basic hands-on on Java programming.
Once I completed the book I started reading SCJP Study Guide(Exam 310-055) by Kathy Sierra . This book is quite big so I read one chapter per day. Meanwhile I also started attempting dumps from various web resources like Javaranch . you can find many resources over the web for the same. To give SCJP you need to buy voucher from Sun Authorized centres with prices mentioned here . You can also purchase vouchers from someone else and you can find such people on various communities like the one in Orkut, I personally took it from authorized centre in Bangalore and got some discount over it.

After completing the book by Kathy Sierra I started attempting questions giving in dumps(dumps are questions which give you fair idea about the exam pattern) . With this I also started revising the same Kathy Sierra book to make sure I get the concepts well and I do not commit same mistakes again.

My exam was on 15th March’08(yeah I know, I am bit late in writing, but better late than never ). On exam day I just revised notes made by me and re lazed(my favorite job). In the exam room you are not allowed to take anything, you need to keep everything in locker. The centre will give you pen and paper so no need to worry on that.
For SCJP 1.5, we need to attempt 72 questions and 48 is needed to pass the certification. The total time to attempt was I guess 2:45 mins, which by any means is much much more to finish the exam. I completed the test in 40 mins and let me tell you how, many of the questions were from the dumps only it helped me.
Regarding the result, I scored 97%(70/72 questions) . I got the certificate after 1 month.
All the books and dumps I mentioned, you can find them for free download from here

Feel free to ask any questions about this, I will try my best to answer your queries.

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Posted in Java | Tagged SCJP | 6 Comments

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on June 27, 2009 at 4:17 pm | Reply Kamesh

hi ,
Very nice to share your exp… good
on July 16, 2009 at 3:02 pm | Reply Deepak

Congrats on getting Sun certified!

Just one doubt. You said most of the questions were from dumps. Did that mean questions, including methods, variable names, Class names all were same as in dumps? Or, just it’s similar?

I’ve scheduled the exam on July 27th.
Reply.
on July 16, 2009 at 5:06 pm | Reply Deepak

One more thing. When did you take the test? This year?
Thanks.
on August 1, 2009 at 9:58 pm | Reply Ravi

Hey,

thanks buddy..nice blog.
I also created a blog to share my experience with SCJP.

Thanks,
Max
on December 8, 2009 at 7:27 pm | Reply bond

Thanks for the share ..Really appreciated work. And I do have the SCJP Dumps | SCWCD Dumps…I think this is helpful to ur visitors
on December 9, 2009 at 7:04 pm | Reply bond

Thanks for the share ..Really appreciated work. And I do have the SCJP Dumps | SCWCD Dumps | SCJP Tutorials…I think this is helpful to ur visitors