The Ankh-Morpork Times

A year after completing the Sun Certified Java Programmer Certification I felt ready to tackle the next certification.

The Sun Certified Web Component Developer focuses on Web Development, obviously ;), with Servlets, Java Server Pages (including Tag Libraries, Scripting and Expression Language) as well as a couple of Design patterns.

After working in a Swisscom project for a year where we used JSPs and Expression language I thought, it would be easy to prepare for this exam, however, there was so much I didn't know yet, especially everything concerning Custom and Simple Tag Development. And so I've been studying since January till I finally felt ready to try the exam.

And yesterday was the day. Overall I was well prepared and I could answer most of the questions easily, still there were a couple of tough questions asking details I've never heard of such as the DynamicAttributes interface for Tags. Since the passing grade was 70% these questions didn't pose a serious problem. And so I now can add another title to my CV ^^.

Now I'm done studying for a couple of months :)

Labels: certification, Java

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

2007 in retrospect

Happy new Year!

Now is a good time to see what I have done in the last year:
- read 102 books
- went 32 times to the cinema
- went to 26 concerts / events
- saw 3 Musicals (in the US)
- saw 3 Theatrical Plays
- visited 3 countries (Indonesia, Germany, USA)
- collected 3 certifications

Labels: 2007, certification, Concert, Event, Fun, Literature

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

ISTQB Certified Tester - Advanced Level Technical Tester

As announced in my last post I have now also completed the Advanced Level Technical Tester course. And it was indeed a much more useful course. We learned many useful things about JUnit, Mock-Objects and Webtesting. However, there was also a lot of stuff repeated from the Foundation Level course so it was good that everything was still present.
The examination was tougher but fairer than the first one. We had to know more details to answer single questions, on the other hand, the questions were much clearer than before.
Now I'm to 1/3 an Advanced Level Tester. The other parts would cover Test Management and Functional Testing, but they are not high on my list of priorities for the moment :)

Labels: certification, Java, job

Thursday, November 15, 2007

ISTQB Certified Tester - Foundation Level

Last week I completed a testing course which gave me the opportunity to take the ISTQB Foundation Level Tester examination.
The course was very interesting even though it repeated many things I knew from my studies, but still it gave a good overview. The examination itself was tough in so far, that it had many unclear questions where several answers were possible (according to the things taught in the course), nevertheless I scored enough points and am now a ISTQB Certified Tester.
Next week I'll tackle the ISTQB Technical Tester course and examination, which promises to be much more practical and thus more useful.
Pretty soon I'll need a free wall to frame all my certificates ;)

Labels: certification, Java, job

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Sun Certified Java Programmer

That's my new title ;). I took the exam this morning and have to say that it was quite challenging. It's amazing how many details about the API you need to know. Not to mention all the things that can lead to compiler errors. Both things that a modern development platform takes care of for you. Still, I've learned a couple of new and interesting things about Java studying for the exam and I'm looking forwards to the raise that I'll get for completing the exam *g*.

Labels: certification, Java, job


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