Java 2 Certification Training Guide

Jaworski has managed to destroy the hopes of hundreds of would-be Certified Java Programmers with his total lack of concern of the accuracy of his information. It is as if the book were written and published the same day, with proofreading by the postman who delivered it. It is full of errors on the details of the language, which, given the nature of the exam is unforgivable. Worse yet, there is no support from either the publisher or the author with regard corrections. Example errors: "null" is not a keyword, Strings are mutable, precedence of the "&" and "^" confused, I stopped reading after that. Do yourself a favor and don't buy this. I burned mine one cold day in January. I'm serious about this.

This book is well-organzied at once but in fact, it has lots of typos and mistakes. Like some question numbers and answers do NOT match. It says it covers up Architecture test and developer at all but the sections for those tests are really tiny. nevertheless the CD-ROM inside this is quite worth to try. however, except that, nothing to read.

I started out with this book. Good follow-on for the architecture exam as it seems the only publication which has material on that subject. However, after taking and passing the programmer certification, I would recomend the Java 2 Exam Cram by Bill Brogden. It is packed with concise information and will get you there much quicker.

great book. any day better than its competitors. i think this book should be done after studying the simon roberts certification book. and that should complete your certification study. excellent CD tests.

This book sincerely tries to succinctly cover everything that might be asked on the Java programmer's exam, but it is so full of typos that I wasted more time trying to figure out what it meant to say than I spent profitably reviewing for the exam. What I found most disheartening were the occasional wrong answers to the sample test questions.

This is a shame. The author obviously knows A LOT about Java and tries his best to provide valuable insight into how to take (and pass) the exam.

The book was not badly written, but it was apparently neither edited nor proofread with any care.

Although it claims to cover all three Java exams, its treatment of the developer's exam is trivial, and, with the recent revamping of the architect's exam by Sun, its reasonably good coverage of this topic is now obsolete.