I was inactive in my blog for long time. It's because I'm really busy on my work, also, study the top class SCEA exam.
Today I finally took the exam and got pass with 75%. Although it is not the mark I would be proud of, it would still make me relief, at least for a while. Why do i say that? because SCEA actually consists of 3 parts, this is only the beginning. I have still to fight for the rest of the parts, which are assignment and essay. I guess this exam is the most toughest Java exam which I ever had. To do the preparation, I read lots of book, participate forums, read online resources, do lots of mock exam. When I was doing SCJP and SCWCD, I only read 1 book for each of them, and do some mock exams. Then I can get good marks. But this won't work in this SCEA, which the exam include lots of scenario, situation and find the "BEST" solution for it. Although some people said, SCEA is not up to date, it is still using EJB1.1, J2EE1.2. But I think more than half of them are about architecture concept, design pattern, security, which are not tighty up to those technology. And it's really useful. But as part 2 and 3 doesn't need to be use specify EJB version, so I guess I would choose JavaEE 5 and EJB3 to take the exam. Cause I can not only pass the exam, but also learn new stuff through it.
Anyway, here I will provide what sorts of information that I used to pass the exam, I hope it helps other people who are interesting of that.
Books:
1. Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE™ Technology Study Guide - Mark Cade and Simon Roberts [Prentice Hall]
2. Head First Design Pattern [Oreilly]
3. Head First EJB [Oreilly]
4. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - GoF [Addison Wesley]
5. UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, 3rd Edition - Martin Fowler [Addison Wesley]
Forums:
1. http://www.javaranch.com
2. http://www.javaworld.com.tw (Chinese Only) - Notes from worookie is very good. Must have a look! (Notes is written in English)
3. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/scea_prep
4. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/scea_j2ee
Online resources:
1. Java Applet Security
Mock Exam:
1. Whizlabs SCEA
2. http://moelholm.com
3. http://www.stormpages.com/jnagal/mock.html
4. http://www.harishramchandani.com
I actually search lots of other resources, but the above are the most useful and I keep re-visit before I take the exam.
Anyway, good luck to anyone who wish to sit on this exam!
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