Re: omg-100 uml exam prep

Responding to Pc...

Can anyone please advise me if they know a good book to go through as
preparation for the OMG-100 UML 2.0 fundamental exam.

I have the certification study book but this is pretty concise stuff,
I am looking more for a book that I can go through with exercises and
real world example as a type of course.

If the goal is passing the certification test, the book you have will probably serve you better than anything else. Concise as it may be, it will be focused on the kinds of certification questions you will be asked. More important, the authors use past tests to determine what the certification board wants to hear. IOW, memorize the book and you would have no problem passing the test because the questions will just rephrase the book content and all you would have to do is recite the book back.

Most of the books that would provide what you want are about software design methodologies, particularly OOA/D methodologies. They tell you how to come up with good software designs and then how to express them in UML syntax. Unfortunately the certification exam is not concerned with software design; it is focused exclusively on UML syntax and interpreting the UML meta-model.

Worse, some of the solutions I've seen designated as "correct" solutions on the certification exam are just flat wrong from an OOA/D practice viewpoint. And because of recent changes to UML in v2.0, the UML meta model is no longer completely consistent with OOA/D practice because OMG is trying to make UML the Mother of All Notations rather than just an OOA/D notation. So the books on OOA/D using UML might confuse you and might even lead to providing answers the certifiers would regard as "incorrect".

However, if you are looking for a quick read on how UML is actually used, I would recommend Fowler's "UML Distilled".


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