The most popular questions about JSF on forums and support are : 1) unexpected behavior of component that binds "rendered" ( "disabled" ) attribute to a request scope bean that has a different value during render and execute phases. Therefore, JSF does not process these component on form submit. 2) binding component to session/application scope beans that messed up component instances between views and requests. I guess exam has to pay more attention to these cases.

Since JSP is no longer the primary PDL/VDL of JSF, I think it needs deemphasized in favor of Facelets. Also, since the Java 6 EE Virtual Conference I've been getting into JAX-RS as a replacement for many of my servlets - ones that generate xls's, iText PDF's, KML's, etc. It seems to be making things much easier and I think it needs included. Personally, since I'm not consulting or looking for a job, you won't see me paying $300 for the Sunacle seal of approval. It's much more economical to spend my time working on my black... err... brown belt. ;)