

The word “privileged” was not in the objectives for the 816! Should I take the 817 or 819? Oracle updated the guide since the 816 came out. We had used the Secure Coding Guide when writing our security chapter. Enthuware wrote that doPrivileged was on the exam. It was just the topics that got distributed. However, the difficulty of questions was uniform. (The counts don’t add up to 50 because a few questions covered multiple objectives for the early objectives) 815 vs 816 topics Working with Streams and Lambda Expressions Sharing the distribution of questions by objective is fair game though! Objective When taking an exam, you have to agree not to share what was on it. And also told me that I could read faster if there was “do not compile” option. For example, I looked at the answers before reading questions with a bunch of code. Test taking skills are definitely important on this exam. And I wanted to use the remaining time to go through the questions again to make sure I could say that our Complete Study Guide prepares you for the 819 exam. However, I essentially skipped two (aka I guessed.) They weren’t hard – about control/flow. I finished going through a first pass of all the questions with 30 minutes left.

I can easily imagine someone running out to time on the exam.

You get 90 minutes to answer 50 questions. But that’s a story for another blog post) Exam timing I’m happy to get a real time score again though! It’s been a while. It looks like they are transitioning how it works. I was then given a printout saying “Your exam results are not available at this time… 30 minutes”. I received my score immediately on completing the exam.

The proctor did come by towards the middle to see if I needed a second one though. This was the first time I wasn’t given an eraser for the erasable board. I haven’t been offered pencil/paper at an Oracle exam in years. That seems like it could have been combined. I was asked to take off my mask twice (once to verify I match my id and once to take a photo). I was also given hand sanitizer immediately on entry. They have more space so I was naturally further away from other people. (The AWS one was walking distance.) Overall, I think this center handled it better. This exam center is a short bus ride away. I took this exam at a different center than where I took the AWS one since it wasn’t offered there. I’m not willing to take the exam online so I signed up at a local testing center. I took the AWS Associate Architect exam two weeks ago. I guess that makes me “triple qualified” having already passed the 1Z0-817 upgrade exam and the 1Z0-815/ 1Z0-816. Update (): Read The 1Z0-819 Exam page to learn how you can easily our Java 11 Study Guides to prepare for Oracle’s 1Z0-819 Exam, as well as the 1Z0-817 Upgrade Exam.
