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I've been meaning to blog this for a few days now but never seemed to get around to it! I took the beta of the Sun Certified Business Component Developer for J2EE exam last Saturday (5th July). I'd been preparing by reading the EJB 2.0 specification and I think this is pretty much anyone will need, although books always have a much better way of explaining things. That EJB spec is 500 pages and very dull in places!
The beta exam itself was 4 hours although I did finish earlier. In addition to the normal mutliple choice questions, Sun have introduced some drag and drop style questions which actually worked really well. For example, given 4 methods and 4 statements of intent, you have to drag and drop the methods to line up with the correct statement.
The questions themselves included topics like EJB lifecycles, transactions, CMP, CMR, EJB-QL, roles of responsibility, deployment descriptors and so on. Quite a wide range, although not as wide ranging as I would have thought, particularly since the EJB specification contains a lot of detail on things like EJB-QL and container managed relationships. To be honest, I'm glad that there weren't more questions in the exam about these sort of topics!
Now we just have to sit back and wait for 6-8 weeks before we learn how well be did. I will say one thing, doing this exam has certainly made me read the EJB spec and understand a whole lot more about the subtleties of the EJB architecture. Also, I now have much more appreciation of the work that must of gone into designing this architecture.
Don't forget, if you are thinking of studying for the exam, JavaRanch has a forum especially for this.
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