What features in it?
Benefit of Being Certified
How to start
Which books should I have?
What is architecture?
SCEA Study Notes FAQs
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Introduction
This study notes is designed for anyone who is planning to take Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE Technology.)
The training route for SCEA (2003 version) shows that you have to take two courses before you take the certification test.
- "Developing J2EE Compliant Application(FJ-310)"
- "Architecturing and Designing J2EE Application(SL-425)"
But the study notes will cover these two courses. New stuff is continuing to add in. Please check it often.
There are three steps to take this certification exam.
- Take knowledge test(310-050, 48 questions, 75 minutes, pass score: 68%, $150)
- Finish an architecture and design project(No time limit, pass score: 70%, $250).
- Take an essay test(310-061, 4 questions, 90 mins, evaluated with your project, $150)
| SCEA Test Info for the first step | |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Exam number: | 310-051 |
| Exam type: | Multiple-choice, short answer and drag & drop. |
| Duration: | 75 minutes for 48 questions. |
| Tuition: | $150 U.S, or as locally priced |
| Pass score: | 68%. |
| Register: | 1 800-422-8020 in N America, or Check your local SUN Edu.Ctr. |
Sun's sample questions can be located at the its certification site.
If you are brand new to J2EE platform, start from SUN's J2EE tutorial, download the J2EE 1.3 version and documentation. If the link is broken, please go to http://java.sun.com home page and search for the new links.
What features in the study notes?
This study notes is well-organized and compiled with author's experience. The notes and objectives are written in different color. It is easy for you to pick up topic and to expand it according to personal study styles and tastes. Such study notes have been used by people who passed the exam with score more than 95%. The most references come from J2EE platform specification and API. Using it with SUN's J2EE tutorial is recommended. If you are brand new with J2EE platform, get the book "Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform, Second Edition" (ISBN 0-321-12936-9). This book is written by the Java BluePrints Team. It is the most readable book and gets you start up quickly.
Benefit of Being Certified
Being certified with cutting-edge technology can help you improve your career potential, gain more respect, increase your job security and opportunities and let you stand out of the talents. With SCEA certification, you are more competitive in the job market and more confident to find a job like team manager or a project leader if you have a leadership talent because you have a hard evidence to show that you are qualified for the tasks that lie ahead. IT job agents are more likely to help certified professionals to find a better job.
How to Start
Start to learn it from SUN's J2EE tutorial and J2EE specification. Learning from other peoples' experience in preparation is a better way to work on yourself. Or you can take online classes held by SUN University or some training companies. Consult the test objectives often to check if you understand the topic or not. Follow the three steps to start your test process.
You must make sure you understand object-oriented concept and know encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism and access controls before you learn J2EE technology. You are not required to possess any certification in Java technology.
Which book should I have?
The following books are mostly recommended. They can be found at amazon.com
- SUN Certified Architect for J2EE Technology Study Guide
- ISBN: 0-13-044916-4
- costs: $40 USD
- UML Distilled A brief guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language(
- 2nd ed.
- ISBN:0-20-165783-X
- costs: $30 USD
- Design Patterns Element of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- ISBN: 0-20-163361-2
- costs: $50 USD
- Java Design Patterns
- an online free book.
- costs: zero
- Internationalization (i18n)
- Sun's tutorial
- costs: zero
What is architecture?
Architecture is an artistic science of building. Java Enterprise Architect is a person who knows how to build a system with Java 2 Enterprise Edition Technology. As an architect, one must know how to create a system architecture to handle thousands of users with predictable or unpredictable usage patterns to meet company's requirements, and know how to provide a service-level architecture to obtain the following characteristics. Using your mouse over each characteristics to see brief description.
- performance
- availability
- reliability
- scalability
- extensibility
- maintainability
- manageability
- security
Besides, an architect must have a leadership in designing and developing and have a strong analytic and communicative abilities.