Comments on: Taking the 1Z0-819 Exam: Study Everything and Watch the Clock! (Part 1 of 2)

By: Jeanne Boyarsky

Jeanne Boyarsky — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 00:54:40 +0000

@Yash
1) You would get 0%. The question is either right or wrong. No partial credit
2) No. Some are single answer
3) Yes, each question is worth the same (unless it is a non scored question in which case it is worth nothing.) You won’t know which (if any) questions are non scored though

By: Yash Bettgeri

Yash Bettgeri — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:41:32 +0000

I am planning to appear for 819 and have few doubts regarding the exam
1. If the question says 2 of the options are right and I get 1 right and 1 wrong would I get 50% of allotted marks for the question or 0%.
2. Would all questions be multiple right?
3. Do all questions carry equal weightage of marks?

Basically I would like to know the marking scheme of the exam.
Any help is appreciated!!

By: Jeanne Boyarsky

Jeanne Boyarsky — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 13:47:56 +0000

In reply to Vex. Vex: Thanks for sharing your experiences. (Also "no fair" on only one module question.) If you are going to buy another copy for reference and not take the exam, I recommend getting the 829 book. It's out now and includes records/sealed classes/etc.

By: Vex

Vex — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 21:38:45 +0000

So…that was fun. I honestly must have gotten the worst possible seed ever.
1 question on i/o (easy)
1 question on jdbc (easy)
2-3 generics questions (easy/reasonable)
1 on modules (cakewalk)
0 for command/cmd-line options

Just about everything that I pounded into my head pre-test was non-existent when it came to the real thing. I came in at 51%. Would recommend doing the test at a testing center, as the Pearson OnVue option was a nice little nightmare getting everything working (30 minute time limit).

First three absolutely smacked me. With the exception of the few listed, I started freezing up a bit and burned through a bit too much time early on.
The practice tests are nice, neat, clean. The real test, the font, my god the font…

I was able to do process of elimination on a few answers, but overall I…I’m a bit shocked at how unreasonable it was. I mean, 90 minutes for all that is a ridiculously short amount of time. The questions…very much seems like Oracle is desperately trying to sucker punch you and run off with your $250.

In terms of the books, absolute gold, and I’ll probably get another copy for future reference. (Current one is insanely beaten up at this point) I learned quite a bit, but honestly, I don’t think I’m gonna subject myself to another beating from Oracle.

By: Joro

Joro — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 07:47:43 +0000

I attempted the exam on 23rd of April – the last day of the 25th anniversary promotion and finished just 3% away from the passing mask. I didn’t have time to read the last 4 chapters, namely I/O, NIO.2, Security and JDBC. While I was somewhat familiar with the last, I didn’t know almost anything for the NIO2 part. Now that I read both chapters on I/O, I didn’t see anything on channels and I think, topics. I’m pretty sure I had one question about that. I got reminded of it by one of the side notes on the original NIO, that mentions them.

By: Jeanne Boyarsky

Jeanne Boyarsky — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:49:12 +0000

We’ve gotten a few reports that CallableStatement was not removed so the 819 page no longer says it was. Conveniently, the material has always been in the book. But we are no longer advising people to skip it.

By: James

James — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 21:11:00 +0000

I know it says that CallableStatements were removed, but I definitely had 1 question about it on my exam today.

A lot about Streams and Enums were on there too, as well as several questions testing knowledge of complier error vs exception.

By: Dodo

Dodo — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:07:47 +0000

I just passed with an 82% score! My only resource was your three books+the online test banks. The exam was definitely a toughie and i was sweating bullets during it but when I could calm myself down, I realized the questions in the 819 test bank book were MUCH harder. Anyways, thank you so much, this was a good purchase on my part, especially with the java 25th year anniversary, i passed the exam for only 25 bucks which beats the 450 the two exams would have cost.

By: Jeanne Boyarsky

Jeanne Boyarsky — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:54:03 +0000

In reply to Laura. @Laura: Yes! The real exam still tells you the correct # of answers. We intentionally don't in the CSG guide to make the questions harder and help you be better prepared for the exam.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:26:08 +0000

Hi,

I am also studying for the 819 using the CSG. With all the changes i would like to know if the exam questions still mention the number of correct answers when there are more then one correct answer. Can you please confirm this?

Thank you.