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Title: Java 2 Exam Cram (Exam: 310-025) by Bill Brogden, William B. Brogden ISBN: 1-57610-291-2 Publisher: The Coriolis Group Pub. Date: 30 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (83 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good book - Only 1 complaint
Comment: This is a good book and does exactly what it sets out to do: prepare you for the Java Certified Programmer Exam. It is not meant to TEACH you Java, but rather serve as a refresher for the material that you should have learned elsewhere. It does contain examples and explanations of many core Java topics, but by itself is not enough to learn Java.
The sample questions do an excellent job of focusing your attention on what you need to know for the exam and help reveal those areas in which you may need more preparation. My only complaint is this: I would much rather have had the answers to the chapter tests grouped together in the back of the book. As it stands, each answer is printed immediately following its associated question and I found myself inadvertantly spotting the answer before reading the question. If you're like me and tend to subconciously "scan" a page before you read it, this could prove to be a problem in keeping yourself honest. Other than this one (albeit small) complaint, I feel this is an excellent book and serves its purpose wonderfully.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a bad choice, but don't make it your primary study guide
Comment: I had just passed the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 1.4 Platform exam (with a score of 80%), and I want to help prospective test takers in finding the "right" Java study guide. I bewildered by the number of books available, and I had to try many of them before I settled on the right one. Here are my short reviews for each of the major Java study guides:
"Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 Study Guide" by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates (five stars): I felt this book was the best among all the Java study guides. Both the authors were responsible for the Java certification exam's development, and the practice questions are *very* similar to the actual exam. The authors also cover exactly what will be on the 1.4 exam, pointing out potential topics, questions, and pitfalls. I can't recommend this book highly enough.
"A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification" by Khalid Mughal and Rolf Rasmussen (four stars): This is a good choice if you plan on taking the 1.2 exam. The book also has a dual purpose of teaching Java and sometimes goes beyond the actual scope of the exam, but it is nonetheless excellent. However, as the title suggests, this isn't the book for you if you don't have any programming experience. Also, the book's practice questions are much, much harder than the actual exam.
"Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide (3rd Edition)" by Philip Heller and Simon Roberts (two stars): This was the most disappointing book of all. I don't know why so many people swear by it, but the book appeared to have been rushed into production. Many of the errors and typos have been updated in the book's second printing, but the book's coverage of topics is quite weak. Lastly, the practice questions were not only too easy, but they don't look very similar to how questions look on the real test. It's not a terrible book (many people appear to have passed the exam with just this book), but there are better options.
"Java 2 Exam Prep" by Bill Brodgen (three stars): This compact study guide isn't a bad choice for prospective test takers with a good Java foundation. It covers all the exam's topics succinctly, but as another reviewer noted, it should not be your primary study guide. I personally did not find the book particularly useful.
Lastly, sign up for Sun's ePractice practice exams. You'll get three sample tests, and they will help you prepare for the exam by showing you how the questions will look and what type of questions they will ask. I didn't like the idea of spending the extra money, but the practice exams definitely helped me prepare for the real thing.
Rating: 1
Summary: Factual error on the VERY FIRST PAGE!....
Comment: You would think that a study guide would be pretty accurate, but ... WOW! I found several factual errors on the very first page of the book. The following error is on the "Cram Sheet" which is the very first page of the book (right behind the cover). The Cram Sheet says "Logical OR operators | and ||." Well, | is not a logical operator; it is a bitwise arithmetic operator. It goes on to say in the next two sentences "The | operator always evaluates both operands. The || operator 'short-circuits' an evaluation and does not evaluate the right hand term ...". WOW!!!!!!!!!! Nuf said!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Title: Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide (3rd Edition) by Philip Heller, Simon Roberts ISBN: 0782140777 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Java 2 Exam Prep (Exam: 310-025) by William B. Brogden, Bill Brogden ISBN: 1576102610 Publisher: The Coriolis Group Pub. Date: 16 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 Study Guide (Exam 310-035 & 310-027) by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates ISBN: 0072226846 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 11 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: A Programmer's Guide to Java (tm) Certification by Rolf Rasmussen ISBN: 0201596148 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 19 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Java 2 Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, 3rd Edition by William R. Stanek ISBN: 0072191694 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 25 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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