Title: Will give you confidence and knowledge
Product review: I agree with others that the API reference should be cut out - any programmer serious enough to sit for the exam already has it! The book not only enabled me to pass, but I regularly go to it as a reference. I learned a lot about how Java really works from it, and I feel much more confident with the platform due to the excellent content and organization of this book. I found it useful, however, to not just rely on it's practice exam. Although comprehensive, I found the questions repeat too often and were sometimes taken right from the book. I supplemented it with Bill Brogden's Exam Cram book and was glad I did, as it gave a different perspective on the test questions which was a help when I sat for the exam. Roberts presents the right amount of subject detail. There was very little on the exam that wasn't covered somewhere in the book. This book will not only prepare you for the exam, but helps to educate on some of the finer points of the Java platform.
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