Sun’s exam CX-310-035, “Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform 1.4” is the one requirement for the Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform 1.4 certification. It is designed for “programmers experienced in using the basic syntax and structure of the Java programming language.” There are no other specific prerequisites for this exam.

This exam costs $150 USD and may be taken from Thomson Prometric.

The pass score for this multiple choice and short exam is 52%. There are 61 questions and the exam lasts 120 minutes.

The topics covered by this exam include:

• Declarations and Access Control
• Flow control, Assertions, and Exception Handling
• Garbage Collection
• Language Fundamentals
• Operators and Assignments
• Overloading, Overriding, Runtime Type and Object Orientation
• Threads
• Fundamental Classes in the java.lang Package
• The Collections Framework