Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java EE Study Guide: Amazon.co.uk: Mark Cade, Humphrey Sheil: Books

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Definitive, Comprehensive SCEA Exam Prep–Straight from Sun’s Exam Developers!

This book delivers complete, focused review for Sun’s new Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA) for Java EE certification exam–straight from two of the exam’s creators! SCEA lead developer/assessor Mark Cade and SCEA lead developer/assessor Humphrey Sheil offer powerful insights, real-world architectural case studies, and challenging sample questions that systematically prepare you for the actual exam. For every question, the authors show why the right answers are right–and why the other answers are wrong. Cade and Sheil cover every SCEA exam topic, skill, and technique, including:

Understanding system architecture and its goals
Decomposing larger systems into components organized by tiers or layers
Addressing requirements for scalability, maintainability, reliability, availability, extensibility, performance, and security
Building effective web (presentation) tiers, and analyzing tradeoffs associated with using web frameworks
Leveraging EJB 3’s enhancements for business tier development
Covering new enhancements in the JEE 5 platform
Choosing and architecting the best integration and messaging components for your system
Using the Java security model to enforce confidentiality, integrity, authorization, authentication, and non-repudiation
Using the most powerful and useful Java EE architecture patterns
Documenting Java EE architectures through visual models and narratives

The authors also present detailed guidance for handling every element of the SCEA exam–including your development and defense of a complete real-world architectural solution.

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Definitive, Comprehensive SCEA Exam Prep–Straight from Sun’s Exam Developers!

Understanding system architecture and its goals
Decomposing larger systems into components organized by tiers or layers
Addressing requirements for scalability, maintainability, reliability, availability, extensibility, performance, and security
Building effective web (presentation) tiers, and analyzing tradeoffs associated with using web frameworks
Leveraging EJB 3’s enhancements for business tier development
Covering new enhancements in the JEE 5 platform
Choosing and architecting the best integration and messaging components for your system
Using the Java security model to enforce confidentiality, integrity, authorization, authentication, and non-repudiation
Using the most powerful and useful Java EE architecture patterns
Documenting Java EE architectures through visual models and narratives

The authors also present detailed guidance for handling every element of the SCEA exam–including your development and defense of a complete real-world architectural solution.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

The title is misleading 12 Feb 2003

By Mr christopher S Wild

Format:Paperback

This should really be called a revision guide, the entire book is under 200 pages in length, all of the GOF patterns are covered in about 30 pages, and the entire UML is covered in 20 pages. If you are looking for a book to teach you everything you need to know in order to pass the exam then this is not the book for you. What this book does do very well is to explain all the exam requirements and give you a good idea about what you need to learn.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Its a guide, and its just that 1 Oct 2003

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I am quite happy with this book – it’s a good starting point, and authors lets the reader know that the level of expertise is expected from them by posting sample questions at the end of every chapter. The sample questions actually requires a lot more reading than the chapter it precedes, and that just tells the reader that this book itself is not sufficient, unlike Certification Study guides for Programmer (SCJP) certification.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Very well written but a little thin on content 16 Aug 2004

This book is very well written and works well as a review book for the Architect exam. It doesn't really contain enough to cover the whole exam but it is a very good start. Some exam objectives are missing and others are just skimmed over. If this book contained double the material it would be excellent. It is much better written then the Paul Allen book.