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Sun Certified Enterprise Architect For The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Step 1 of 3) (CX-310-052)

This document outlines the details and objectives of the Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Step 1 of 3) certification exam. The exam contains 64 multiple choice and drag-and-drop questions across 8 sections covering topics such as application design, architectures, integration, business tier technologies, web tier technologies, Java EE applicability, design patterns, and security. Candidates must correctly answer at least 37 questions to pass.

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Sun Certified Enterprise Architect For The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Step 1 of 3) (CX-310-052)

This document outlines the details and objectives of the Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Step 1 of 3) certification exam. The exam contains 64 multiple choice and drag-and-drop questions across 8 sections covering topics such as application design, architectures, integration, business tier technologies, web tier technologies, Java EE applicability, design patterns, and security. Candidates must correctly answer at least 37 questions to pass.

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Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the Java Platform,

Enterprise Edition 5 (Step 1 of 3) (CX-310-052)

Details

• Delivered at: Authorized Worldwide Prometric Testing Centers


• Prerequisites: None
• Other exams/assignments required for this certification: Step 2 (CX-310-301A),
Step 3 (CX-310-062)
• Exam type: Multiple choice, and drag-n-drop
• Number of questions: 64
• Pass score: 57% (37 out of 64 questions)
• Time limit: 120 minutes

Assignment Objectives

Section 1: Application Design Concepts and Principles

• Explain the main advantages of an object-oriented approach to system design


including the effect of encapsulation, inheritance, and use of interfaces on
architectural characteristics.
• Describe how the principle of "separation of concerns" has been applied to the
main system tiers of a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition application. Tiers include
client (both GUI and web), web (web container), business (EJB container),
integration, and resource tiers.
• Describe how the principle of "separation of concerns" has been applied to the
layers of a Java EE application. Layers include application, virtual platform
(component APIs), application infrastructure (containers), enterprise services
(operating system and virtualization), compute and storage, and the networking
infrastructure layers.

Section 2: Common Architectures

• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of two-tier architectures when


examined under the following topics: scalability, maintainability, reliability,
availability, extensibility, performance, manageability, and security.
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of three-tier architectures when
examined under the following topics: scalability, maintainability, reliability,
availability, extensibility, performance, manageability, and security
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of multi-tier architectures when
examined under the following topics: scalability, maintainability, reliability,
availability, extensibility, performance, manageability, and security.
• Explain the benefits and drawbacks of rich clients and browser-based clients as
deployed in a typical Java EE application.
• Explain appropriate and inappropriate uses for web services in the Java EE
platform

Section 3: Integration and Messaging

• Explain possible approaches for communicating with an external system from a


Java EE technology-based system given an outline description of those systems
and outline the benefits and drawbacks of each approach.
• Explain typical uses of web services and XML over HTTP as mechanisms to
integrate distinct software components.
• Explain how JCA and JMS are used to integrate distinct software components as
part of an overall Java EE application.

Section 4: Business Tier Technologies

• Explain and contrast uses for entity beans, entity classes, stateful and stateless
session beans, and message-driven beans, and understand the advantages and
disadvantages of each type.
• Explain and contrast the following persistence strategies: container-managed
persistence (CMP) BMP, JDO, JPA, ORM and using DAOs (Data Access
Objects) and direct JDBC technology-based persistence under the following
headings: ease of development, performance, scalability, extensibility, and
security.
• Explain how Java EE supports the deployment of server-side components
implemented as web services and the advantages and disadvantages of adopting
such an approach.
• Explain the benefits of the EJB 3 development model over previous EJB
generations for ease of development including how the EJB container simplifies
EJB development.
Section 5: Web Tier Technologies

• State the benefits and drawbacks of adopting a web framework in designing a


Java EE application
• Explain standard uses for JSP pages and servlets in a typical Java EE application.
• Explain standard uses for JavaServer Faces components in a typical Java EE
application.
• Given a system requirements definition, explain and justify your rationale for
choosing a web-centric or EJB-centric implementation to solve the requirements.
Web-centric means that you are providing a solution that does not use EJB
components. EJB-centric solution will require an application server that supports
EJB components.

Section 6: Applicability of Java EE Technology

• Given a specified business problem, design a modular solution that solves the
problem using Java EE.
• Explain how the Java EE platform enables service oriented architecture (SOA)
-based applications.
• Explain how you would design a Java EE application to repeatedly measure
critical non-functional requirements and outline a standard process with specific
strategies to refactor that application to improve on the results of the
measurements.

Section 7: Patterns

• From a list, select the most appropriate pattern for a given scenario. Patterns are
limited to those documented in the book - Alur, Crupi and Malks (2003). Core
J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies 2nd Edition and named using
the names given in that book.
• From a list, select the most appropriate pattern for a given scenario. Patterns are
limited to those documented in the book - Gamma, Erich; Richard Helm, Ralph
Johnson, and John Vlissides (1995). Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable
Object-Oriented Software and are named using the names given in that book.
• From a list, select the benefits and drawbacks of a pattern drawn from the book -
Gamma, Erich; Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (1995). Design
Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
• From a list, select the benefits and drawbacks of a specified Core J2EE pattern
drawn from the book – Alur, Crupi and Malks (2003). Core J2EE Patterns: Best
Practices and Design Strategies 2nd Edition.

Section 8: Security

• Explain the client-side security model for the Java SE environment, including the
Web Start and applet deployment modes.
• Given an architectural system specification, select appropriate locations for
implementation of specified security features, and select suitable technologies for
implementation of those features
• Identify and classify potential threats to a system and describe how a given
architecture will address the threats.
• Describe the commonly used declarative and programmatic methods used to
secure applications built on the Java EE platform, for example use of deployment
descriptors and JAAS.

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