Thursday, October 15, 2009

Certification

Instructions for myself and others for SCEA
Summary of my preparation:
Preparation: 45 days 2 - 3 hours per day and 12 to 16 hours on weekends
Books:
IT Architectures and Middleware
Designing Enterprise Applications with J2EE from Sun's website (This book has design guidelines such as when to use Servlets, JSPs, EJBs, Stateful vs Stateless etc..)
JEE Specification (Pay attention to high level description of APIs)
EJB and JPA Specifications
GoF Design Patterns (should be thorough and it will help you in your career also)
Pay attention to 'How design patterns solve design problems' as you become familiar with design concepts such as class vs interface inheritance and there were few questions on inheritance, polymorphism.
Core J2EE Patterns (No need to go through all examples just few strategies)
SCEA 5 Study Guide
http://java.boot.by/scea5-guide/
Read Core Security Patterns; would get good score in security.
Be through with common architectures such as 2-tier, 3-tier and n-tier architecture with respect to non-functional requirements and there were few questions on these and all answers appear to be correct. Though you know the answer you may not be able to answer them correctly under the given time limit. Before you go to the test revise this section.
I wish to follow it.

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