Java Certification Books?

Hey All,
I'm planning on starting to study for the Java Certification, although as always there seems to be as many book/study guides out there that there is testing centers!!!
I book that seems to be defacto at the moment is : SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide (Certification Press Study Guides)
by Katherine Sierra, Bert Bates
BUT if anyone has any other suggestions on better books study guides please feel free to share.
Thanks.

http://onesearch.sun.com/search/onesearch/index.jsp?charset=utf-8&qt=java+certification+books&rf=0&rt=1&nh=10&cs=0&y=10&x=5&col=developer-forums

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I eventually want to obtain Java Certification. I have a good book from which I am teaching myself. I took some classes back in college but I plan to take more courses once I feel confident enough that I have a more complete understanding of the language. I was wondering would it be a good idea to buy a Java certification book and focus my training around the topics presented in the book, or continue with my current book, doing examples from the book, making modifications and creating my own simple programs.
Thanks!

I would do the following,
1. Read a good book on Java covering major topics in
Java but only those topics which fall within the
topics needed for certification for the simple
reason Java is a very vast langauge. So if I am a
started I would not go for advanced topics like
RMI, EJB, JDBC, Netwroking etc if I am trying only
for the basic certification i.e. 1st level
2. I would surely write simple programs modifying
the sample code as you are doing.
3. Once I am confident on the topics I would switch
over to a Sun certification book to focus/concentrate
just on the topics and the questions types which
are relevant and that "could be asked" during the
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Sun's basic Java tutorial
Sun's New To Java Center. Includes an overview of what Java is, instructions for setting up Java, an intro to programming (that includes links to the above tutorial or to parts of it), quizzes, a list of resources, and info on certification and courses.
http://javaalmanac.com . A couple dozen code examples that supplement The Java Developers Almanac.
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Java Certification Doubt

Hi,
I want to do a java certification SCJP, but I read online the exam is called OCPJP now. I have purchased a book 'SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Exam 310-065' for it. I want to know if SCJP and OCPJP mean the same so that the book I mentioned here is suitable to prepare for OCPJP. Kindly help.
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899794 wrote:
Hi,
I want to do a java certification SCJP, but I read online the exam is called OCPJP now. I have purchased a book 'SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Exam 310-065' for it. I want to know if SCJP and OCPJP mean the same so that the book I mentioned here is suitable to prepare for OCPJP. Kindly help.
Thanks.0) The exam will be very substantially unchanged AFAIK.
1) Compare the topics in your book compared to topics on the exam webpage. If you see any differences ... then you may need to do a little more research. Its quite normal for for exams to get an update from time to time, and often books can be less than up to date.
2) This thread covers the typical sort of detail changes to expect.
3) Does the book have a website where updates/errata are known? Look there.
4) There may be a couple note either in blogs.oracle.com/certification especially wrt the prometric to peason vue transition or the oracle to sun transition. I have other things to do in my life to search for this, espeically when the train i was to catch train decided to expire itself in a tunnel. This is probably a java software fault.

Free Download of Java Certification guide by Simonroberts

Hi all,
I am preparing for SCJP , So, i need to download the Guide for Java Certification by Simon Roberts.
Plz advice me with the URL .
Thanks,
Regards,
jay

http://www.amazon.com/
However, for some strange reason, they insist you pay for this book! ;-)

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I've been using Sun's Java Certification practice exam (WGS-PREX-J025B / http://suned.sun.com/US/certification/java/java_progj2se.html) and I'm wondering how similar the practice questions are to the actual exam.
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Hi,
as you surely know, nobody who actually did the exam can answer those questions because of an confidential statement you have to sign for taking the exam, BUT
for the programmer's exam I learned with the book "Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide", ISBN 0-7821-2825-4, did the sample questions in the book and the attched CD and... I took it successfully!
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I took the programmers test today and failed. Anybody else have this happen to them. Anyway, I knew I wasn't ready but some of those questions seemed to come out of left field from some of the sources I was studying. I used a book (sybex java certification)http://www.ravenholm.fi/tuotteet/11_2_42_14992.htm to study most of the time and I went to www.javacertificate.com and actually passed on the exams there, I got 100% on garbage collection at www.javacertificate.com but when I took the actual test I got ZERO it was like none of the questions I had been studying were there.
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Sun Java Certification

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The List:
[Sun's basic Java tutorial|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/]
[Sun's New To Java Center|http://java.sun.com/learning/new2java/index.html]
Includes an overview of what Java is, instructions for setting up Java, an intro to programming (that includes links to the above tutorial or to parts of it), quizzes, a list of resources, and info on certification and courses.
jGuru
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JavaRanch
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[Yawmarks List|http://forums.devshed.com/java-help-9/resources-for-learning-java-249225.html]
[The Java Developers Almanac|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201752808?v=glance]
[http://javaalmanac.com|http://javaalmanac.com]
Bruce Eckel's [Thinking in Java(Available online.)|http://mindview.net/Books/DownloadSites]
Joshua Bloch's [Effective Java|http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-2nd-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0321356683]
Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra's [Head First Java|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596004656?v=glance ]
James Gosling's [The Java Programming Language|http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0321349806]
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Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter [Java Puzzlers.|http://www.javapuzzlers.com/]

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Hi there,
I am learning java and plan to give the exam for Sun certified java programmer. If any of you have already done this I would like some tips towards preparing for the exam.
I am planning to buy the book on java certification by Roberts, Heller & Ernest. Is this a good enough reference or do I need something more.
Also I would like to know whether certification really helps in the job market, before you have completed your graduation. I raside in India and am doing a Bachelors degree in Computer Applications.
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Personally I think that the Sun certification program is one of the few certs in the market that actually still holds some value to it. The lack of "boot camp" type training programs has helped this out a whole lot. Unlike other certifications, having the sun certs should give you a slight edge in the market... whereas certs like MCSE, MCSD, etc don't count much for you if you have 'em, but if you don't it looks bad.
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Java certification

Hai all. I have just finished sitting for my certification exam and passed with high marks. I have one study guide that I wrote myself for the exam. I can give to you if you need it.
bye.

I think certifications are good things. There might even be a good debate about whether programming should try to become a more "professional" profession and only allow trained, certified practitioners, but that's another thread.
Having obtained a couple of Java certifications, they're like most degrees and courses. Once you have them, nobody much cares about what grades you got or how many of them you have. They base their impressions on one fundamental question: "Can you do this for me RIGHT NOW?" If you can, you're smart. If you can't, you've either got to learn quickly or fail. All the degrees and certifications in the world only help to the extent to which they equip you to learn new things.
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