Successfully passed through the Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition.

Specific things about the procedure this time:

  • improved interface compared to the one half a year ago;
  • no questionnaires at the end of exam but instead more papers to sign at the beginning.

Topics that I would wish I had prepared better:

  • JSTL tags a bunch of approximately 7 questions was about the format of core library tags and their actions;
  • rarely mentioned tags inside <web-app> like <ejb -local-ref> or <env-entry>; in other words, you are definitely supposed to scrutinize web.xml’s DTD

Many questions concerned patterns, expect to have at least a question about each one given in the objectives.

Here is a all-in-one-page reference for SCWCD exam in PDF format.

SCWCD Exam Study Kit by Hanumant Deshmukh et al was very helpful, so were Enthuware’s tests. Mikalai Zaikin has compiled a free book on the SCWCD exam’s objectives.

For those who wish to pass certification in Kiev, BMS Consulting is recommended as a Prometric authorized certification center; except for the overextended payment procedure, everything went just smooth.