Certifications experience.

Prepartion for this exam started with different reason. I was mainly looking for refreshing my basics skills and learning few new techonologies so that I can cope up with the changing software market. Last year I wored Ayyapa mala (you need to workship Lord Ayyapa for 41 days with sanctity) and while following the rules and customs during the tenure, like wake up early in the morning and offer prayers before the sunrise. As my day starts early and I use to have plenty of time then I thought of making use of it and planned to appear for SCEA Part 1 which I was planning from many years but didn't get any time towards it. I started with Design patterns about the books and the material for SCEA part I, it is mentioned in my previous blog. By end of April I appeared and cleared part I but with I was not satisfied with the score and whole May I was busy with my office work and couldn't get any time for the part 2 exam. Overall by completing part 1 itself I learned many new technol...

These are some points which are noted when I was preparing for the SCEA Part I CX-310-052 exam and hope that these are helpful for the people who are preparing for the exam. Below points are gathered from various books, topics and articles. Experience in my exam: There were good number of questions on patterns (both GOF and Core J2EE Patterns) and I couldn't see any question from UML in my exam. Some questions were on Security and most of them are scenarios based which are quite bit lengthy. Given a situation what would be the best in case, these kind of questions will definitely take some time to answer.  For few Security based questions where all answers seems to be right  Some how I successfully completed Oracle Certified Enterprise Architect Part I. This exam is of very vast syllabus. Before this exam, I know J2EE (few topics were less focused) and Java 1.4 but once I started preparing for this exam I got to know many things, most of the con...