JSP - Intermed

This exam is based on the ability to write advanced JSPs using proper EL and custom tags. This exam moves ahead on the JSP Basic exam. As usual, you can use any book, notes and web reference during this exam.

It requires less knowledge than the SCWCD certification. Exceptions from SCWCD follow:

HTTP Methods, Servlet lifecycle (may be covered in Servlet Intermed).
Construct the file and directory structure of a Web Application.
Construct the correct structure of the deployment descriptor.
Explain the purpose of a WAR file and describe the contents of a WAR file, how one may be constructed.
The Web Container Model.
Web Application Security.
Building a Custom Tag Library (just basics are asked here)
J2EE Patterns.

	Released	Beta	Frozen
JSP Page Life Cycle 2 questions Describe the purpose and event sequence of the JSP page life cycle: JSP page translation Compilation of generated servlet Load class create instance Call the jspInit method Call the _jspService method Call the jspDestroy method.	8	57	32	Add a question Beta questions
Directives 1 question Knowledge of all the attributes applicable to the page directive, and good understanding of include and taglib directives.	1	70	20	Add a question Beta questions
Error Handling 2 questions Good understanding of Translation Time Processing Errors, Request Time Processing Errors and Error Pages. Different ways to define error pages such as error-code defined in web.xml, exception defined in web.xml, error-page defined in a jsp.	6	6	16	Add a question Beta questions
Session Management 2 questions Given a scenario, describe which session management mechanism the Web container could employ, how cookies might be used to manage sessions, how URL rewriting might be used to manage sessions, and write servlet code to perform URL rewriting.	3	17	22	Add a question Beta questions
Listeners 2 questions Use of various listeners. Basic knowledge of Listeners is required here.	5	8	16	Add a question Beta questions
Headers 1 question Basic knowledge of header reading and setting.	3	3	5	Add a question Beta questions
Expression Language 3 questions Basics of EL Access of scope attributes, deactivation of EL evaluation. Understanding of arithmetic, logical, conditional, dot, operators. Basic knowledge of EL functions and collections.	6	54	35	Add a question Beta questions
EL Implicit Objects 2 questions pageContext object Scope objects: pageScope, requestScope, sessionScope, and applicationScope objects param and paramValues objects header and headerValues objects	3	15	12	Add a question Beta questions
Standard Actions 2 questions Basic knowledge of the following Standard Actions: useBean, setProperty, getProperty, include, forward, param, plugin, params, fallback, attribute, body, invoke, doBody, element, text, output.	1	67	15	Add a question Beta questions
Tag Extensions 3 questions Understanding of Classic and Simple Tag handlers. Proper way of Packaging a Tag library. Basic knowledge of Tag Library Descriptor elements. Basic knowledge of how tag validation works. Creating Tag handler classes. Creating TLD files and using the custom tag libraries in JSP pages.	6	84	28	Add a question Beta questions