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Hello,
I'd like to take the SCJP 1.4 on January 13th. I've worked my way through most of the Sybex Complete Java 2 Certification Guide (Programmer's Exam), and this morning I purchased the WhizLabs 1.4 mock exam simulator.
See: http://www.whizlabs.com/scjp/scjp-1.4.html
It costs $39.95 and they have a money-back guarantee: if you don't pass the SCJP, they refund your money. After taking the assessment test (there are over ten other tests, for a total of over 600 questions) and talking with some friends who have taken the SCJP, it appears that if you can do the WhizLabs tests, you'll do great on the actual SCJP.
If you're comfortable with Java and want to get certified in a hurry, I'd like to invite you to help a small group of us study for the next two weeks, every night, on IRC. To do this, you'd need to buy the WhizLabs SCJP simulator (it generates a machine-specific key so it's impossible to share), or at least bring sample questions from free mock tests to our jam sessions so that we can clarify confusing points and improve our skills.
My hope is that certification will help a bit in this incredibly tight job market, but beyond that, so far, studying for the SCJP has been a great way to learn things about the language that I might not otherwise have found out about for a very long time. It forces you to take a disciplined and systematic approach and is hopefully a good starting point for the SCWCD and SCJD (study for one of which will begin on
January 14th ;-) ).
If you'd like to be part of the group and have the stamina to study a LOT (eat, sleep, breathe Java) over the next two weeks, please give me a holler in e-mail. I'm going to e-mail everyone who is interested tonight with the details, once we know how many people we'll have.
Also, for those of you who are interested, I'm the lead for the Skribe Open Source web journaling application currently under development. If you're interested in working on a very cool project, please have a look at http://dev.noumenaut.com. Also, since we have a forum dedicated to SCJP study, if you're interested in being study buddies, please go ahead and sign up so that you can access the forum and we have a common place in which to post messages, in addition to being able to have nightly jam sessions on IRC.
Thanks Very Much!
Steve Jovanovic
[email protected]
(262) 632-7755

"and want to get certified in a hurry"
Remember to tell that to all potential employers as they'll learn to appreciate the SCJP even more.

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