OCP Java SE 6 Programmer Practice Exams (Exam 310-065) (Certification Press)

There is no doubt that studying for the OCJP is a difficult task for most of us. The authors of this exam prep companion say it upfront, you must study, take practice exams, and write plenty of code in order to be prepared for the exam. The OCJP practice exam guide is a perfect study companion; there are many questions that specifically target the types of topics you will find on the exam. The answers will provide the information you need to learn from your mistakes and become better prepared for the real exam. I highly recommend this guide.

You need to complete a study guide book BEFORE you attempt the practice exams in this one. I recommend traditional hardcopy rather than Kindle or pdf. You should read this away from your computer, your browser, your IM, text messages, email and Facebook. Only go to the computer when you need to 'google' some supplementary articles or documentation. The questions in the practice exams are more difficult and have many more 'gochas' than those of the real exam. In the end I took each question one at a time, answered it to the best of my ability in 3 minutes (oh, by the way, you only get 2.5 minutes per question in the actual test--2.5 hours total) then reviewed the topic in the study guide or other material if I got it wrong or detected a weakness. I highlighted the explanations heavily and drew up a bulletted list of Top 10 Gotchas to look out for, which quickly grew to 30. Lather, rinse, repeat. I was barely scoring 50% on the 3rd practice exam but scored 81% on the actual test. I had not taken the 4th exam because I wanted to keep it in reserve as something new to go over in case I failed my first attempt. As it turned out, I passed handily.

Hello, I'm studying for java exam andm I highly recommend this book. If you have reasonable experience programming Java 5 or 6 then you'll be able to follow all the topics. I found the material pretty heavy so 15 minutes study every night worked best for me. My only complaint is that the exam is so bloody hard! However Java programmers aren't paid the big bucks without reason - and this exam certainly sorts the men from the boys. The material seems to cover all of the exam objectives and the pre-requisite stuff falls earlier in the book. Some of the chapters are quite long (I'm looking at you, Generics!!!). I found the authors' style very engaging and a small amount of humor in relevant places relieved the boredom of study. You'll also find numerous sections labelled "Exam Watch" spliced in between the material throughout the chapters and these are invaluable to answering the "gotcha" exam questions correctly. At the end of each chapter there are some 'test yourself' questions and even though I'm a seasoned java programmer I still found them hard... but that's why I bought a book and I'm really happy with this one. Recommended. Two thumbs up.

I've just seen some of the, and it seems to be very useeful for the exam, to get to understand the way it's done, with the questions, the choises to reply, and a good explanation of why the answer is that one and not the other. The quality of the book is very good, and it's the oficial book of Oracle for this exam.

A very useful book,before taking the exam. The questions in the book are tougher than what actually appears in the exam. The book covers every topic.The book helped me crack the actual exam with ease in the first attempt.

I studied for the SCJP (OCJP) test for more than a year (on and off). I started with the SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Exam 310-065 book, which was helpful. Once I finished, I felt that I needed more exam questions before taking the real exam, so I purchased this exams book. My exam scores (for the exams in this book) tracked at around 20-40% correct. Toward the end, I think I scored about 50%. According to this book, with such scores, I wasn't close to being ready to take the real exam. For this reason, I rescheduled the exam several times and I continued to study. The book told me I wasn't ready, right? I finally got the courage to take the real exam. (My test voucher was about to expire, so I didn't have much choice.) The actual exam is *worlds* easier than the exams in this book. I scored an 83% on the real exam, but according to this book, I wasn't close to being ready to take it. I finished the exam with 45 minutes to spare, after several rounds of review. As another reviewer stated, there are fewer options for each question and the number of correct answers for each question is stated in the real exam. This makes the questions much easier! On top of that, the questions were more obvious. (Sure, there were tricky things thrown in (e.g., final and static modifiers) here and there.) To be fair, the book states that the questions are more difficult than those on the actual exam. So, yes, the exams book did inform me of some exam 'gotchas'. It also scared me so much that I almost didn't take the exam. I would have preferred a book that was representative of the actual exam.

You need to have read the other SCJP study book to really get something out of this book, but once you have done that, it really helps reinforce the test's concepts.

It is an excellent book, It contains the neccessary practices for the test of certification of Java. The book contains many situacions the you need to know like a java developer.

Das Buch bietet viele Übungen zur Vorbereitung für die OCP Java SE 6. Für das Bestehen der Prüfung hat es gereicht.

Realizzato dagli stessi autori delle domande del test ufficiale, quest'eserciziario si è rivelato un ottimo ausilio per la preparazione dell'esame. Il testo include quattro simulazioni complete dell'esame OCP Java SE 6 Programmer 1Z0-851 (ex Sun 310-065), per un totale di 240 domande, più due test di autovalutazione preliminare di 14 domande ciascuno. Le soluzioni sono corredate da spiegazioni dettagliate utilissime per comprendere anche aspetti molto sottili del linguaggio. Le domande presenti nel libro sono un po' più difficili di quelle dell'esame reale, questo permette di raggiungere un livello di preparazione tale da poter affrontare la prova con relativa tranquillità. Ho svolto solo le prime due simulazioni pochi giorni prima dell'esame ottenendo per entrambe un risultato intorno al 75%; all'esame reale ho invece ottenuto un assai migliore 90%. Fondamentale, inutile dirlo, studiare bene le soluzioni che sono il vero valore aggiunto di questo testo.

As the authors state, the exams in this book are harder than the real exam - I was getting only about 50% of them right, but yesterday passed the real exam with 93% :) If you work through this book and take the time to understand all of the questions - type the code examples, run them, mess around with them, study their behaviour with a debugger - then you'll learn a lot about the language and be in really good stead of the exam. It also helps if you have the authors' study guide too.

Utile per coloro che devono sostenere gli esami di Java. Contenuti molto interessanti..questionari simili agli esami reali. Lo consiglio vivamente.

Great for the OCJP 6 exam... still available in 2016 and effectively covers all the Java Android currently uses. As many have said the biggest 'problem' with these exam questions are they are much harder than the real exam. My strategy to pass is to actually take these tests as simply exercises and do each question one by one without time limit - if I get them wrong then I study the area more in depth to I understand the subject better allowing me to fill in gaps in my knowledge. Itmay take me 20 minutes to do a question or even longer. By doing this I gain a thorough knowledge of Java by shoring up all the edge cases this book loves to throw at you (most I have never seen in production code).