All About SCJP 5.0 Exam (Sun Certified Java Programmer) Author: Varun Jindal Author: Varun Jindal Software Engineer, CSPD Infosys Technologies Limited, Chandigarh Email: <a class="__cf_email__" href="http://www.cloudflare.com/email-protection" data-cfemail="693f081b1c07362300070d08052900070f061a101a470a0604">[email protected]<script type="text/javascript"> (function(){try{var s,a,i,j,r,c,l,b=document.getElementsByTagName("script");l=b[b.length-1].previousSibling;a=l.getAttribute(data-cfemail);if(a){s=;r=parseInt(a.substr(0,2),16);for(j=2;a.length-j;j+=2){c=parseInt(a.substr(j,2),16)^r;s+=String.fromCharCode(c);}s=document.createTextNode(s);l.parentNode.replaceChild(s,l);}}catch(e){}})(); 1 SCJP at a glance The Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform 5.0 certification exam is for programmers experienced using the Java programming language. For candidates who already hold an SCJP certification under a prior version and want to be certified under a more recent version, Sun provides SCJP 5.0 Upgrade exam. Copyright 2007, Varun Jindal, Infosys Technologies Limited SCJP 5.0 Upgrade certification Exam covers lesser number of topics and costs less than the SCJP 5.0 certification exam. This will become evident from the further slides. 2 SCJP Benefits Sun’s programmer exam is considered the one of the hardest and fastest-growing certification in the IT world. Achieving this certification provides clear evidence that a programmer understands the basic syntax and structure of the Java programming language & can create Java technology applications that run on a server and desktop systems using J2SE 5.0. Copyright 2007, Varun Jindal, 3 Infosys Technologies Limited 3