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Certification

Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide

Format: Paperback
Author: Philip Heller
ReleaseDate: 20 May, 2005
Publisher: Sybex
Rating:

I do not recommend this book at all.
5 features, and that's where it stops. The book does provide some high-level overview of Java 1. It doesn't provide anywhere near enough detail and application to be used as either a test preparation tool or as a language reference.

I regret purchasing this book and would not recommend it to anyone, even if it were free.

Sufficient, worth the price, you'll pass, but it really isn't very "good".
There are typos and mistakes in the examples. If you memorize everything in this book, you'll pass with NO flying colors. There are worse typos and mistakes in the chapter review questions. The sample exams on the CD are just one exam repeated 4 or 5 times, but with extremely slight changes. All the reviews and sample tests together do not come anywhere near to imitating the questions on the test (SCJP). Once you have memorized everything in the text and examples (correcting all the typos and errors along the way), and can answer all the review and sample test questions 100%, you're still only going to get a minimal passing grade on the SCJP test.

This book is very, VERY helpful. However, be sure to do additional studying outside of this book. And beware that some of the exam questions on the CD are actually programmed incorrectly, and selecting the correct answer will be marked as INCORRECT. The 'correct' answer they give you will in some cases actually conflict with the explaination for that answer.

Very poor execution, but nonetheless is a very good BASIS for study to pass the SCJP.

I have not yet taken the SCJD, but the text for it (starting at chapter 10) leave a lot to be desired. Again, it's a good starting point, but you should do more studying and lots (!) of Swing/RMI/Threading practice in beyond what the book covers, before taking your test. It's description of RMI does leave a lot to be desired.

Garbage
Riddled with errors and the exams on the CD are worthless. The publisher and authors are clowns. NOT even remotely close to what the real exam has. Don't get the 1. 4 either, it is even worse.