SO... You want to be a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE™ Technology

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The Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE™ Technology is composed of these three elements:
You must successfully complete all three elements to become certified.

STEP 1 -- Multiple Choice Exam
Available at :	Authorized Prometric testing centers
Exam number :	310-051
Prerequisites :	Must have Passed the Java Certifiction for Programmer / Developer
Exam types :	Multiple choice, short answer, and drag and drop
No of questions :	48
Pass score :	68%
Time limit :	75 minutes
Cost :	US$150, or as locally priced
STEP 2 -- ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN PROJECT
Available at :	http://suned.sun.com/US/certification/my_certification/index.html
Exam number :	N/A
Prerequisites :	Successful completion of the multiple-choice exam
Exam type :	Architecture and design project
No of questions :	N/A
Pass score :	70%
Time limit :	None
Cost :	Approx(US$250), or as locally priced
STEP 3 -- ESSAY EXAM
Available at :	Authorized Prometric testing centers
Exam number :	310-061
Prerequisites :	Successful completion of the multiple-choice exam and submission of the architecture and design project
Exam type :	Essay
No of questions :	4
Pass score :	68%
Time limit :	90 minutes
Cost :	US$150, or as locally priced

Testing Objectives

Testing objectives for the Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Technology include:

COMMON ARCHITECTURES

Given an architecture described in terms of network layout, list benefits and potential weaknesses associated with it.
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LEGACY CONNECTIVITY

Distinguish appropriate from inappropriate techniques for providing access to a legacy system from Java technology code given an outline description of that legacy system.
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ENTERPRISE JAVA \BEANS™

List the required classes/interfaces that must be provided for an Enterprise JavaBean™ component
Distinguish between stateful and stateless session beans
Distinguish between session and entity beans
Recognize appropriate uses for entity, stateful session, and stateless session beans
State the benefits and costs of container-managed persistence
State the transactional behavior in a given scenario for an enterprise bean method with a specified transactional attributed as defined in the deployment descriptor
Given a requirement specification detailing security and flexibility needs, identify architectures that would fulfill those requirements
Identify costs and benefits of using an intermediate data-access object between an entity bean and the data resource
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ENTERPRISE JAVABEANS™ CONTAINER MODEL:

State the benefits of bean pooling in an Enterprise JavaBeans container
Explain how the Enterprise JavaBeans container does lifecycle management and has the capability to increase scalability
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PROTOCOLS:

Given a list of some of its features, identify a protocol that is one of the following: HTTP, HTTPS, IIOP, or JRMP
Given a scenario description, distinguish appropriate from inappropriate protocols to implement that scenario
Select common firewall features that might interfere with the normal operation of a given protocol

APPLICABILITY OF J2EE™ TECHNOLOGY:

Identify application aspects that are suited to implementation using J2EE technology
Identify application aspects that are suited to implementation using Enterprise Java Beans
Identify suitable J2EE technologies for the implementation of specified application aspects

DESIGN PATTERNS:

Identify the most appropriate design pattern for a given scenario
Identify the benefits of using design patterns
State the name of a Gamma et al. design pattern given the UML diagram and/or a brief description of the pattern's functionality
Identify benefits of a specified Gamma et al. design pattern
Identify the Gamma et al. design pattern associated with a specified J2EE technology feature

MESSAGING:

Identify scenarios that are appropriate to implementation using messaging, Enterprise JavaBeans technology, or both
List benefits of synchronous and asynchronous messaging
Identify scenarios that are appropriate to implementation using messaging
Identify scenarios that are more appropriate to implementation using asynchronous messaging, rather than synchronous
Identify scenarios that are more appropriate to implementation using synchronous messaging, rather than asynchronous

INTERNATIONALIZATION:

State three aspects of any application that might need to be varied or customized in different deployment locales
List three features of the Java programming language that can be used to create an internationalizable/localizable application

SECURITY:

Identify security restrictions that Java 2 technology environments normally impose on applets running in a browser
Given an architectural system specification, identify appropriate locations for implementation of specified security features and select suitable technologies for implementation of those features

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