Saturday, July 11, 2009

... } finally { certified = true; }

Yeah, I finally got certified!

It has been one of my TODOs for a few years now. The problem always was that I could never find time to prepare myself really well for this. There was this huge book to read, mock tests to do, etc. and lots of other task apart from that. I am happy that I didn't forget and finaly did what I planned to do.

I scored 84% and must say that I am pretty happy about it. Anything above 95% would probably mean that I am not a human beeing anymore but a Java compiler instead.

Some of the questinos were extremely hard but there were also no-brainers. Anyway, if you think that you could pass the SCJP exam without any preparation (because you have multiple years of expierience with Java) then you are totaly wrong! I screwed up mostly "Concurrency" questions even though I scored above 90% with Whizlabs Mock tests. It's just not predictable what kind of problems you may get to solve on the exam.

Now I may learn Groovy in piece :-)

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