Alternate source for preparing for java exam 310-035

[lonelyplanet999]

Hi,

Now I use the book "Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2
Study Guide (Exam 310-035 & 310-027)" written by Kathy Sierra, Bert
Bates as one of the main source for my preparation of the java
programmer exam. From Amazon's customer comment. I found one of the
comment as below:

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This book is a good effort where the information is presented in a
simplistic and lucid way. However I would like to point out the areas
where this book is lacking:
1)Assertion Mechanism:- Doesnt cover the different kinds of invariants
and pre / post conditions. Simply having a DO
& DONT section in not enough

2)Poor treatment of inner classes and the chapter on collections is
very hapazardly presented.

3)Inadequate treatment of threads, doesnt cover a few extra methods
like setDaemon, interrupt etc and questions in the book are way too
easy

4)Also there is absolutely no coverage of type-casting for classes and
interfaces although an earlier chapter asks the reader to refer
chapter 5 for that.

I agreed with the commenter on 1), 2) about collections & 4). For
others, I haven't started study on those parts so no comment. The
commenter suggested "purchase SUN's practice tests" but since I have
more exam want to attend so I'd like to control my budget. Does anyone
know any free web sites discussing above in the same depth as real
exam ?

I also have a book named "Java 2 Certification All-in-One Exam Guide
Third Edition" by William Stanek but this is for 310-025 exam so I
used it as supplementary study guide only.

Besides, I've installed the CD came with Kathy's book but as I ran it
on my windows 98 notebook, my OS complained 'JAVAW caused an invalid
page fault in module JVM.DLL at 0167:504cdce1.' (I installed JSDK
1.4.1_01 in this notebook). Without the electronic CD, what really did
I missing ?

Tks

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[nos]

Hi,
I just finished reading the whole book (just the 035 part)
and I have to remark that the book is not intended to teach
you everything. They state over and over again that they are
only going to cover what is going to be on the test and that
you are supposed to know Java already before you start
the book. Given these requirements I think it is a good book.
One of the authors worked on the 035 test and should be
familiar with what the test is supposed to cover. In fact they
tell you the SUN statement of what each part of the
test is trying to cover.

 

[lonelyplanet999]

Hi,
I just finished reading the whole book (just the 035 part)
and I have to remark that the book is not intended to teach
you everything. They state over and over again that they are
only going to cover what is going to be on the test and that
you are supposed to know Java already before you start
the book. Given these requirements I think it is a good book.

I understand that. But I'm afraid if the content is sufficient for the
exam given below comments from others who have reading the book to
prepare for exam. If that guys' comments are correct & objective,
there's something not discuss to the right depth even for the exam. I
just want to clarify from people who have used this book as study
guide and really taken the exam to comment if the stuff included is of
sufficient depth.