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Phew, I finally made it! I’m a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect. It took me over a year to get from passing the theoretical exam (part 1) to setting myself to fulfilling the assignment (part 2). I think part 2 is where many people let go; it takes a bit of dedication to really documenting your architecture well. Part 3 of the exam then just consists of filling out a questionnaire on-site (so they can verify it’s you) where you prove you’ve made the assignment yourself.

In retrospective I wouldn’t recommend trying this exam if you’ve only worked with Java shortly, because it tests a lot of in-depth J2EE knowledge. I think of all Sun Java Certifications, the Web Component Developer Exam is the most relevant for Java Web developers, and I would be really happy if the people working on the Java projects I have to deal with at least have the knowledge tested by this exam. This would save me many refactoring headaches of people ‘re-inventing’ Servlet filters and listeners, and makes sure you’ve at least heard once about ‘Model-View-Controller’…

The Java Ranch is *the* place to go for information about all the Java exams. And I used the following books for study purposes;