thejavajar

I have decided to take the SCJP 5.0 Exam. From I what I have been told and what I have read online, the test is not necessarily hard but rather tricky and populated with deceitful code. We’ll see. I have been wanting to take the exam for quite some time, but I have never found (or made) time to study.

I have been working with Java for quite some time and I think I am moderately proficient with the language but with some dependency on an IDE for most of my development. Most of my development experience has existed in the enterprise world; EJB’s, Web Services, and Web Development. I have rarely paid attention to Threads or File I/O when working with Java, so those are some areas that I need to focus on.

I have created a small study guide that coincides with chapters from an exam preparation book and the objectives of the exam. It is basically some notes and code samples that are the center of topic for each subsection of each chapter. I will work on a few online sample tests and a few sample questions from the book once I am done with my study guide and hopefully this will be enough preparation for the exam.