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Passed SCEA5 Part1

Thank God. I have passed the Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA5) Part1 Exam with 57% score. This is the most difficult Sun Certification exam. This is because questions models real time scenarios which demands industry exposure. Two hours time was not sufficient to answer all the questions. I have left last six questions unanswered due to time constrain. Few questions are easy direct questions but most of the questions describes problem and asks you to architect solution for the problem. I took almost two and half week to prepare for the exam burning all my Christmas holidays,week-ends and comp-off vacation that we got for working weed ends in the company. I have put in tremendous hard work reading the following books with in two weeks.

The books that I have referred are:

1) Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software (GOF book)

2) Head First Design pattrens

3) Core J2EE patterns (Deepak Alur,John Crupi, Dan Malks)

4) Core Security patterns (Chris steel,R Nagappa, Ray Lai)

5) Core Servlets and Java Server Pages (Vol I by Marty Hall, Larry Brown)

6) Core Servlets and Java Server Pages (Vol II Marty Hall, Larry Brown, Yakoov)

7) Core Java Server Faces (David Geary, Cay HorstMaan)

8) SOA using Java web Services (Mark D Hansen)

9) Enterpise Java Beans( Bill Burke)

10) SCEA Study Guide (Mark Cade, Simon Robert).

11) http://java.boot.by/scea5-guide/ (Mikalai Zaikin)

12) Whiz Labs SCEA5 Mock EXam.

I am happy that I have passed the exam otherwise I thought I should not go for second attempt as I am not spending any time with my family.

Posted at 03:08PM Mar 02, 2009 by Rajendra Gutupalli in Personal  |  Comments[2]