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OCP Java SE 6 Programmer Practice Exams (Exam 310-065): Exam 310-055 Paperback – Illustrated, 29 January 2008

by Bert Bates (Author), Kathy Sierra (Author)

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Don't Let the Real Test Be Your First Test!

Written by two of the lead developers of the Java SE Programmer Exam, OCP Java SE 6 Programmer Practice Exams is filled with more than 260 realistic practice questions to prepare you for this challenging exam. To help you understand this material, in-depth explanations of both the correct and incorrect answers are included for every question. This practical guide covers all official objectives for Exam 310-065 and is the perfect companion to SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide.

Covers all OCP Java SE 6 Programmer exam topics, including:

Declarations and Access Control
Object Orientation
Assignments
Operators
Flow Control, Exceptions, and Assertions
Strings, I/O, Formatting, and Parsing
Generics and Collections
Inner Classes
Threads
Development

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Language : English
Paperback : 448 pages
ISBN-10 : 0072260882
ISBN-13 : 978-0072260885

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About the Author

Bert Bates (Santa Cruz, CA) is a Sun Certified Programmer for Java and has been developing software for the last 20 years. He has participated both in the development of the SCJP exam and the SCJD exam. Bert has also been teaching software development, including Java programming, for many years, with a particular interest and background in artificial intelligence. His clients have included Rockwell, Timken, The Weather Channel, and Arts & Entertainment Network (A&E).

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Ridiculously difficult compared to actual exam

17 October 2012 - Published on Amazon.com

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I studied for the SCJP (OCJP) test for more than a year (on and off). I started with the SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Exam 310-065 book, which was helpful. Once I finished, I felt that I needed more exam questions before taking the real exam, so I purchased this exams book. My exam scores (for the exams in this book) tracked at around 20-40% correct. Toward the end, I think I scored about 50%. According to this book, with such scores, I wasn't close to being ready to take the real exam. For this reason, I rescheduled the exam several times and I continued to study. The book told me I wasn't ready, right?

I finally got the courage to take the real exam. (My test voucher was about to expire, so I didn't have much choice.) The actual exam is *worlds* easier than the exams in this book. I scored an 83% on the real exam, but according to this book, I wasn't close to being ready to take it. I finished the exam with 45 minutes to spare, after several rounds of review. As another reviewer stated, there are fewer options for each question and the number of correct answers for each question is stated in the real exam. This makes the questions much easier! On top of that, the questions were more obvious. (Sure, there were tricky things thrown in (e.g., final and static modifiers) here and there.) To be fair, the book states that the questions are more difficult than those on the actual exam.

So, yes, the exams book did inform me of some exam 'gotchas'. It also scared me so much that I almost didn't take the exam. I would have preferred a book that was representative of the actual exam.

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Teddy

Perfect study companion

13 January 2011 - Published on Amazon.com

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There is no doubt that studying for the OCJP is a difficult task for most of us. The authors of this exam prep companion say it upfront, you must study, take practice exams, and write plenty of code in order to be prepared for the exam.

The OCJP practice exam guide is a perfect study companion; there are many questions that specifically target the types of topics you will find on the exam. The answers will provide the information you need to learn from your mistakes and become better prepared for the real exam.

I highly recommend this guide.

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Howard

Very good for test preparation.

15 December 2011 - Published on Amazon.com

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You need to complete a study guide book BEFORE you attempt the practice exams in this one. I recommend traditional hardcopy rather than Kindle or pdf. You should read this away from your computer, your browser, your IM, text messages, email and Facebook. Only go to the computer when you need to 'google' some supplementary articles or documentation.
The questions in the practice exams are more difficult and have many more 'gochas' than those of the real exam. In the end I took each question one at a time, answered it to the best of my ability in 3 minutes (oh, by the way, you only get 2.5 minutes per question in the actual test--2.5 hours total) then reviewed the topic in the study guide or other material if I got it wrong or detected a weakness. I highlighted the explanations heavily and drew up a bulletted list of Top 10 Gotchas to look out for, which quickly grew to 30. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I was barely scoring 50% on the 3rd practice exam but scored 81% on the actual test. I had not taken the 4th exam because I wanted to keep it in reserve as something new to go over in case I failed my first attempt. As it turned out, I passed handily.

7 people found this helpful

Roy Bonilla

Excellent book

8 August 2012 - Published on Amazon.com

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It is an excellent book, It contains the neccessary practices for the test of certification of Java. The book contains many situacions the you need to know like a java developer.

rahulkale_sa

Good but better options available

9 May 2011 - Published on Amazon.com

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I passed the exam with 98% and while this book had a part to play, in the hind sight, I feel it wasn't money well spent, specially since I already had the SCJP Study Guide by the same Authors. I wanted to practice some more questions before the actual exam and based on the positive reviews I bought this book for that purpose. I must say the book tries to make it convenient to help the user reach to specific question(s) since it contains the same question with and with out answer and has a mapping of exam objectives and the questions. Of course, it can't escape the limitations of a book, but there are some things I wish the authors had made more exam like.

The actual exam tells you the number of correct options that you have to select, this book doesn't. Apparently, this was done to "help" the reader learn better, but I found it really frustrating because it makes the questions really hard to answer in the given time limit. This leaves you totally clueless as to how fast or slow you should go in the actual exam.

My second biggest gripe that that the proportion of very twisted questions seemed high. They are unrealistic as compared to the actual exam. Some questions have as many as 8 options! In the actual exam I got may be a question or two with 6 options. One can argue that it is all for your own good and I think it is ok for the other book I mentioned before, but I was expecting more exam like stuff from this book.

I am not sure if the other reviewers actually used the book while studying for and before taking the actual test or just read the book casually and posted 5 start reviews here because my experience with the book was very different. I finally bought exam simulator from Enthuware for $20 which was exactly what I was looking for. I wish I had bought it before spending $40 (including shipping to SA) on this book.

16 people found this helpful

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