The exam is available in the following languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and German. The question types are multiple choice, including drag and drop. In most of the questions, you are asked to select the correct answers from multiple answers presented for a question. The number of correct answers is given. Pay attention to the Exhibit button if it appears in a question. You click it to get the required information for the question. In some questions, you are asked to drag and drop options to the right place. According to many exam takers, there are hardly any questions with true/false answers, a lot of questions with two (or sometimes three) correct answers, and quite a few questions with radio button answers. Some questions will have very small code fragments. If you can’t make up your mind about the answer to a question, you can skip it and come back to it later.

Like other Sun exams, the SCBCD exam starts with a survey that asks you questions regarding your level of knowledge and experience with different topics on EJB technology. Please don’t get confused or panic; rest assured that this is not part of the actual exam.

Following are the main steps in the process of taking the exam:

1 You should purchase an exam voucher from your local Sun Education Services Office. You can also purchase the voucher online by going to http://suned.sun.com/US/certification/register/index.html.
2 The exams are conducted by Prometric all across the world, but you need to schedule your exam with them. After you have purchased the exam voucher, contact an authorized Prometric Testing Center near you. You can get the information regarding this from http://www.prometric.com.
3 Reach the testing center at least 15 minutes before the test start time, and be prepared to show two forms of identification, one of which should be a photo ID.
4 After you finish the test, the computer screen will display your result (whether you have passed or not). You will also receive a printed copy of the detailed results.
5 Within a month or so, you will receive your certificate from Sun in the mail if you passed the exam. For the current and complete information, you can visit the Sun exam site: http://www.sun.com/training/certification/

Best wishes for the exam. Go for it!

DESCRIPTION

There is probably no Java certification more valuable to you than Sun Certified Business Component Developer CX-310-090. To pass you need a readable, no-nonsense book focused like a laser beam on the exam goals. SCBCD Exam Study Kit is that book.

The study kit makes sure you first understand all the concepts you need to know, large and small, and then covers every single exam topic. It provides more than 130 review questions with answers distributed over all chapters and an Exam's Eye View section at the end of each chapter on the important points to remember.

Although SCBCD Exam Study Kit has only one purpose - to help you get certified - you will find yourself returning to it as a reference after passing the exam. A demo on how to install the necessary software, write a simple bean, deploy the bean, and execute it, as well as a free SCBCD exam simulator can be downloaded from the publisher's website.

What's Inside

• All exam objectives, carefully explained
• Session, Entity, and Message-Driven Beans
• Lifecycle of Session and Entity Beans
• Transactions, exceptions, and security
• EJB query language
• Container-managed and bean-managed persistence
• Quick Prep Appendix for last-minute cramming

ABOUT THE AUTHOR...

Paul Sanghera, Ph.D., is an SCBCD certified developer. He has taught Java and other technology courses at San Jose State University and has been at the ground floor of several startups. Paul lives in Silicon Valley, California.