Java 2 Exam Prep [With CDROM]

by Bill Brogden

A book/CD-ROM study guide for the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform exam, featuring hands-on projects, real-world examples with interactive activities, and notes, tips, review... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576102610
• ISBN13: 9781576102619
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good coverage on Exam topics

To prepare for the SCJP exam, I started by programming and reading the Complete Java2 Certification Guide (by Heller) first, followed by using this book about just 10 days before the exam. These two books focus on topics differently and certainly make up for the weak part of each other. In fact, the Java2 Exam Cram offers some insight on Java in addition to the coverage of the SCJP exam itself. The sample questions are more difficult in this book while some questions on the real exam are trickier. If you can score 75-80 on the final exam in both books, you should be ready for the exam (passing score is 60). This book has good coverage on Thread, Event, Garbage collection, inner class, Flow control and Exception. Make sure you understand everything in the book so that you will feel very confident on the real exam day. Good luck.

Very well focused book

I passed the exam!! The exam exactly covered what is stated on the Sun web page under "Objectives". There is no question on Applets!! I would even say that all of the questions concerned a function specified on those pages. So read those pages carefully! I used Bill Brodgen's Exam Cram JAVA 2 to prepare for the exam (388 pages). This book covers very well the theory. Any unnecessary bla-bla-bla. Perfect book. Though it was written for the old Java 2 exam, it is still 95% valid for the new exam (since the new exam has more code). I also coded a lot of examples, which was very useful. My score was 84%. This is mainly due to fact that I learned unnecessary staff outside the book and the Sun Objective page. I didn't concentrate on the basics. Besides, I have 10 years IT experience, 4 months extensive Java and 3 extensive weeks on the preparation (6 hours a day). Toughest questions that none of the Test examples covered on the Web: - Do{ if() continue } while( );- while( i++ --j ) - All sort of code samples with i++ and j-- Two thread is started new thread( runnable ).start() + new thread( runnable ).start() (second will never get the chance to run).- Which calls may cause a thread to stop (permanently or temporarily)Other well covered areas in the exam: - Anonymous classes (static, public, private, extends, implements so on)- Interfaces (constructors, members)- Abstract classes (static, public, private, extends, implements so on)- Threads (6 questions)- File class (what method is used to see if a String is a directory)- 2 questions on MouseEvents, 2 questions on Layout (that's it on awt)- 4 questions on Streams & RWs (not too tricky)I would say that the exam is not intended to trap people but asks very intelligent questions that nobody ever asked before in the exams available on the web and in the books ....

It is just the Exam "Cram" it promises to be.

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.htmAll glory to ICHTYS! Hans Gyllensten Switzerland (hans_gyllensten@hotmail.com)

Helped to "bring together" my test preparation

On December 15, 1999 I took the JAVA 2 Programmer Exam for the first time and passed with a score of 85. Although I've had exposure to simple OO concepts for about 10 years, I've only been involved with Java for a couple of months and preparing for the test seemed like a way to get a solid foundation in Java fundamentals. The Java 2 "Exam Cram" really helped me to "bring together" the Java language and class library skills learned from other sources (most notably "The Java Programming Language" by Gosling et. al and the "The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide" by Roberts, et. al).The "Exam Cram" really brings focus to the objectives that are required to pass the test. It also contains an EXCELLENT practice exam that gives the reader a very good idea of the methods the actual exam uses to ellicit your knowledge of Java. This is a key benefit, because one could be very fluent in certain aspects of Java and still not pass the real Exam because of the breadth of material involved. I highly recommend this book as the "guiding resource" in the final days of your exam preparation.

Excellent for Cramming and you can carry it in a big pocket

Like the title says it's an Exam Cram book, not a general Java tutorial, thus it should be used along with other material. It concentrates on the objectives and has no padding, just solid coverage of the Programmer Exam topics. It has no re-printing of the API, no coverage of the Developer Exam or the Architect Exam, just the Java Programmer Exam.It has fewer errors than any other book on this topic, trust me, I can point out some fairly substantial errors in the other books, nothing significant in this. The actual exam does NOT expect you to understand native methods and thus the book does not cover this subject.Because it is physically small you can carry it with you easily. This also means it would not make a good paperweight.The mock questions in the book are probably a little harder than the real thing, so if you can answer them, you will probably pass the real exam. Marcus