How is the SCJP 1.5 exam different from the SCJP 1.4?

€¢ Exam objectives: Several important new language features have been added, including enums, generics, static imports, and autoboxing/unboxing. API features added to the exam include java.lang. StringBuilder, java.util.

Locale, java.util. Formater, java.util.Scanner. Java.util.regex.

Pattern, and java.util.regex.Matcher. Java IO features have been added, including File, BufferedReader, BufferedWriter, FileReader, FileWriter and PrintWriter. Concepts such as loose coupling and high cohesion have been added, as well as greater emphasis on encapsulation as it relates to JavaBean conventions.

Bit manipulation (e.g. , shifting) has been dropped. €¢ Number of questions: 72 (increased from 61) • Time: 175 minutes (increased from 120 minutes) • Passing score: 59% (increased from 52%) • Level of difficulty: The concensus is that it is more difficult. €¢ Format of questions: As before, you will always be told how many options to choose.

No credit is given for partial answers. Drag-and-drop questions ... more.

€¢ Exam objectives: AWT and IO have been dropped. Assertions and Wrapper classes have been added. A deeper understanding of the Collections Framework is required (e.g. , using hashCode and equals).

€¢ Number of questions: 61 • Time: 120 minutes (same as 1.2 exam) • Passing score: 52% (reduced from 61%) • Level of difficulty: Sun indicates that it is more difficult. €¢ Format of questions: As on the 1.2 exam, most questions (an estimated 80-90%) still have code samples 6-30 lines long. Multiple choice questions may have more than 4 options, but you will always be told how many options to choose.

More.

€¢ Exam objectives: Several new API classes/interfaces have been added: java.io. Console, java.util. NavigableSet, java.util.NavigableMap.

Explicit garbage collector calls (i.e. System.gc()) will no longer be tested, but candidates will still be expected to understand garbage collection and the finalize() method. Also, the following topics will be tested in greater depth: exception handling, collections, assertions, threads, and flow control.

See this topic and SCJP 6 vs SCJP 5 for more detail. €¢ Number of questions: 72 (no change) • Time: 210 minutes (increased from 175 minutes) • Passing score: 65% (increased from 59%) • Format of questions: No change. More.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.