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Congratulations for earning yourself SCJP 5 certification! Bravo. Although not a SCJP, but I have successfully completed MCSD.net..

Thanks a lot Aryan. A certification is a certification, no matter what. Be it MS or ORACLE or SUN.

P.S: We JAVA guys tend to hate MS and .NET though!!

congrats apar.

But for me ....

Studies ruined my life man.. So no certifications that i did.

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Congrats Apar.. me also planning to take one from long time, need to take some time out. I will ask my friends and colleagues and let you now about the next level

First of all Congrats Aparajith..!

And secondly, could you plz give out some info abt the certification that you done...like the cost, where to get the study material, place of examination(whether online or at some examination centre)..!

^^he he. I ask u guys for help and now u guys are asking me to help u.

Anyways, I booked it at NIIT man. Most NIITs are now PROMETRIC TESTING CENTRES. The assessment is an online one spanning for 210 minutes. There are 72 questions. U need to get 59% to clear the assessment (i.e) 43 questions right. The exam costs 6K or something. I booked it when SUN was giving it at an offer price of 4.5K.

As for study material, use the SCJP book by KATHY SIERRA and BERT BATES. There is also a book by an author named KHALID MUGHAL you can refer to. Practice the mock exams and exercises given at the end of every chapter and the book as a whole. That will do.

Also I got dumps from my friend. I did not take them seriously and just glanced through, but on seeing the questions in the exam I was just amazed. The same exact questions from the dump were available at the exam(even the spelling mistakes, beat that).
A friend of mine went through only the dumps and cleared the assessment with 92%.

Hope I have cleared ur doubts. If you have anything else, post it here. I will try to help you out.

@Mithun: Buddy, if u want I can email u the dumps. If u have the capability of mugging up just use them and the certification will be a cakewalk.

Whoah...discounts are provided for certification too....i didnt know abt this...!!

Well, for this i wud surely refer the books of this author....and for the dumps i wud provide you with my email address...you can mail me those...

Yup..! Many doubts have been cleared..!! Thanx man..!!


Well, now coming to your topic...you should consult Niranjan Vaidya(xbhp id: niranjanvaidya) for this....as he is a Java professional and would be of help to you...

If i had the ability to mug i would have cleared Engineering with a Distinction

Anyway send the dump will look at it once, i am Head First fan.. i refer it for everything be it a core or EJB

Congrats on ur certification brother... ! I have cleared the SCJP too with 84% and without any kind of dumps... purely with Kathy,bates and in 16 days of preperation... For people who are working on Java regularly - its not difficult for them. Also I have been planning for SCJD since sometime now... ehhh just planning

As for now, even I dont have much details... I will keep tracking this thread for inputs...

Same here, as I find it extremely fun to read as well as understand at the same time. Basics in it are really strong.

wow! lota sofware professionals in here! thought i was the only one

i too gave SCJP but failed got 54% marks..prob all the tough ques were in my paper planning to give it again , this time with preparation

newz, congrats apar..

Congrats.
I got certified (SCJP 1.4) long way back in 2004. An overview is given for each next level certification. I guess, you already know it. If not then take a look here.

I will suggest you to go for other certification than SCJD. Probably, SCWCD or SCBCD.

Well guys, don't be amazed. Even I got 40% discount on exam fee.
So, I think discount offers are always there .

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May I know why?

Simply, because SCWCD is good for industry. Its easier than SCJD in terms of time to get certified. SCJD is not an easy exam at all (like SCJP or SCWCD).

SCJD is for programming skill/experience. You must posses good knowledge of JDK over all.

Why do you want to go for next certification? Yrs. of experience?