Mock exam engine

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Updated 2004-03-03.

You can use the mock exam engine to practise taking the exam. The engine will present questions from the book and score answers in a way that is similar to what you may expect on the real exam.

Downloading

The mock exam engine is available both as a JAR and ZIP archive.

The procedure involving right-clicking and choosing "Save Target as..." works well for downloading the archive.

If the browser does not recognize the JAR archive as a binary file, the downloaded file can be corrupted. We therefore also provide the option to download the archive as a ZIP file. The JAR format is compatible with the ZIP format, so both files are identical, only the name differs.

If you download the ZIP file, you can either change the name of the file to pgjc-engine.jar or simply use the name pgjc-engine.zip instead of pgjc-engine.jar in the instructions below.

Installing

Place the pgjc-engine.jar file in a directory of your choice on your local machine. No additional installation is necessary.

Running

We strongly recommend that you install Java 2 SDK on your machine in order to run the mock exam engine.

From a commandline interface, run the following command:

java -jar pgjc-engine.jar

Either run this command from the directory containing the pgjc-engine.jar file, or replace the filename pgjc-engine.jar with the fully qualified filename of the archive. Also, ensure that the java command is runnable from the commandline, either by setting the PATH environment variable correctly, or by supplying the fully qualified path name of the java command.

If all goes well, the main window of the mock exam engine should appear.

On some platform configurations, it should be possible to launch the program simply by clicking or double-clicking the icon of the JAR archive. This is for instance possible on the Windows platform with JDK 1.3.x properly installed and configured.

Uninstalling

If you no longer wish to have the program on your computer, simply delete the pgjc2e-engine.jar file.

Khalid A. Mughal   •   Rolf W. Rasmussen