Java Programmer Certification

[amorielljr]

I'm getting ready to take the Java Certified Programmer exam. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good exam related book to look over? Thanks.

 

[JVZ]

Well I can not recommend a good exam related book, because I'm not there yet...However here are a couple of good website that ether have/and or provide links to mock java exam question to help you prepare...

http://www.jchq.net/mockexams/exam1.htm

http://www.javaranch.com/mock.jsp

http://www.javaprepare.com/links.html

Maybe the best thing to do is go to sites like Amazon.com and bookpool.com and read the reviews of the books related to java cert.

Sorry I could not provide more insight to you...

 

[harmmeijer]

I hava passed it and most of the questions asked could be answerd if you have studied the tutorials:
ftp://ftp.javasoft.com/docs/tutorial.zip

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/download/tutorial.zip

Allthough I got 0% on garbage collection.


The objectives can be found here:

http://suned.sun.com/US/certification/java/java_exam_objectives.html#programmer1.4

I just started java programming using .netbeans on a win machine. .netbeans is a good IDE allthough it's a bit slow and used up quite a lot of memory compared to j++ (which uses a MS dialect instead of java).
When you put the javadocs in the correct directory you can easaly get to the correct documentation. Javadocs filename is: j2sdk-1_4_0-doc.zip

 

[dbleyl]

I liked Mike Meyer's Passport Guide to Java 2 Certification,
and the exam cram book.