1Z0-807 Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect Certified Master Exam

follow-up of [2]

Pfew! Made it! Woohoo! I had answered 73% of questions correctly, and I needed 71%. I should've studied more.

It is Multiple-Choice, and some of the wrong possible answers are really quite close to correct.

Then again, who has to answer a Architectural Question in their business careers in less than 2.5 minutes on average, really?

On to the next step, the Assignment!!

The exam

Most of the exam questions were regarding business use cases.

The exam questions can be broadly separated into three distinct categories:

use cases

of imaginary companies seeking to change/re-evaluate (a part of) their current outdated infrastructure in some fashion

questions on design patterns

when to use them, what their characteristics are, etc. ^*)

questions on JEE technologies

when would you apply which technologies, given some Non-Functional Requirements (NFR)

*) Seems the books "Core J2EE Patterns", "Real World Java EE Patterns: Rethinking Best Practices" and "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" really did help, and were fascinating reads in and of themselves.

References

[1] 1Z0-807 Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect Certified Master Exam

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=5001&get_params=p_exam_id:1Z0-807

[2] Architect Enterprise Applications with Java EE - Course

http://randomthoughtsonjavaprogramming.blogspot.nl/2013/09/architect-enterprise-applications-with.html

Architect Enterprise Applications with Java EE - Course

I had the opportunity to attend the Oracle course on "Architect Enterprise Applications with Java EE"^[1] from Monday 09/09/2013 to Friday 13/09/2013. (after forking over a big sack of money)

The Course does have a number of Lab exercises, mostly based on UML or open questions (that created several discussions, which I enjoyed immensely). UML diagrams were drawn using UMLet^[3].

I took the course as I wish to prepare for the 'Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect' certification.

This is the first step in the Certification Process ^[2].

I did receive some very interesting Course material along with it. However, it's been licensed to me specifically. (I could let you read it, but then I would have to kill you. Oracle licensing rules say so.)

References

[1] Architect Enterprise Applications with Java EE

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/ou_product_category.getAllProductsPage

[2] Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=458&get_params=p_track_id:OCMJEE6EA

[3] UMLet

http://www.umlet.com/