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Section 1: Declarations, Initialization and Scoping
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Develop code that declares classes (including abstract and all forms of
nested classes), interfaces, and enums, and includes the appropriate use of
package and import statements (including static imports).
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Develop code that declares an interface. Develop code that implements or
extends one or more interfaces.
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Develop code that declares an abstract class. Develop code that extends
an abstract class.
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Develop code that declares, initializes, and uses primitives, arrays,
enums, and objects as static, instance, and local variables. Also, use legal
identifiers for variable names.
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Given a code example, determine if a method is correctly overriding or
overloading another method, and identify legal return values (including
covariant returns), for the method.
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Given a set of classes and superclasses, develop constructors for one or
more of the classes. Given a class declaration, determine if a default
constructor will be created, and if so, determine the behavior of that
constructor. Given a nested or non-nested class listing, write code to
instantiate the class.
Section 2: Flow Control
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Develop code that implements an if or switch statement; and identify
legal argument types for these statements.
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Develop code that implements all forms of loops and iterators, including
the use of for, the enhanced for loop (for-each), do, while, labels, break, and
continue; and explain the values taken by loop counter variables during and
after loop execution.
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Develop code that makes use of assertions, and distinguish appropriate
from inappropriate uses of assertions.
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Develop code that makes use of exceptions and exception handling clauses
(try, catch, finally), and declares methods and overriding methods that throw
exceptions.
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Recognize the effect of an exception arising at a specified point in a
code fragment. Note that the exception may be a runtime exception, a checked
exception, or an error.
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Recognize situations that will result in any of the following being
thrown: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException,ClassCastException,
IllegalArgumentException, IllegalStateException, NullPointerException,
NumberFormatException, AssertionError, ExceptionInInitializerError,
StackOverflowError or NoClassDefFoundError. Understand which of these are
thrown by the virtual machine and recognize situations in which others should
be thrown programatically.
Section 3: API Contents
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Develop code that uses the primitive wrapper classes (such as Boolean,
Character, Double, Integer, etc.), and/or autoboxing & unboxing. Discuss
the differences between the String, StringBuilder, and StringBuffer classes.
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Given a scenario involving navigating file systems, reading from files,
writing to files, or interacting with the user, develop the correct solution
using the following classes (sometimes in combination), from java.io:
BufferedReader, BufferedWriter, File, FileReader, FileWriter, PrintWriter, and
Console.
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Use standard J2SE APIs in the java.text package to correctly format or
parse dates, numbers, and currency values for a specific locale; and, given a
scenario, determine the appropriate methods to use if you want to use the
default locale or a specific locale. Describe the purpose and use of the
java.util.Locale class.
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Write code that uses standard J2SE APIs in the java.util and
java.util.regex packages to format or parse strings or streams. For strings,
write code that uses the Pattern and Matcher classes and the String.split
method. Recognize and use regular expression patterns for matching (limited to:
. (dot), * (star), + (plus), ?, \d, \s, \w, [], ()). The use of *, +, and ?
will be limited to greedy quantifiers, and the parenthesis operator will only
be used as a grouping mechanism, not for capturing content during matching. For
streams, write code using the Formatter and Scanner classes and the
PrintWriter.format/printf methods. Recognize and use formatting parameters
(limited to: %b, %c, %d, %f, %s) in format strings.
Section 4: Concurrency
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Write code to define, instantiate, and start new threads using both
java.lang.Thread and java.lang.Runnable.
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Recognize the states in which a thread can exist, and identify ways in
which a thread can transition from one state to another.
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Given a scenario, write code that makes appropriate use of object
locking to protect static or instance variables from concurrent access
problems.
Section 5: OO Concepts
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Develop code that implements tight encapsulation, loose coupling, and
high cohesion in classes, and describe the benefits.
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Given a scenario, develop code that demonstrates the use of
polymorphism. Further, determine when casting will be necessary and recognize
compiler vs. runtime errors related to object reference casting.
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Explain the effect of modifiers on inheritance with respect to
constructors, instance or static variables, and instance or static methods.
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Given a scenario, develop code that declares and/or invokes overridden
or overloaded methods and code that declares and/or invokes superclass, or
overloaded constructors.
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Develop code that implements "is-a" and/or "has-a"
relationships.
Section 6: Collections / Generics
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Given a design scenario, determine which collection classes and/or
interfaces should be used to properly implement that design, including the use
of the Comparable interface.
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Distinguish between correct and incorrect overrides of corresponding
hashCode and equals methods, and explain the difference between == and the
equals method.
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Write code that uses the generic versions of the Collections API, in
particular, the Set, List, and Map interfaces and implementation classes.
Recognize the limitations of the non-generic Collections API and how to
refactor code to use the generic versions. Write code that uses the
NavigableSet and NavigableMap interfaces.
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Develop code that makes proper use of type parameters in class/interface
declarations, instance variables, method arguments, and return types; and write
generic methods or methods that make use of wildcard types and understand the
similarities and differences between these two approaches.
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Use capabilities in the java.util package to write code to manipulate a
list by sorting, performing a binary search, or converting the list to an
array. Use capabilities in the java.util package to write code to manipulate an
array by sorting, performing a binary search, or converting the array to a
list. Use the java.util.Comparator and java.lang.Comparable interfaces to
affect the sorting of lists and arrays. Furthermore, recognize the effect of
the "natural ordering" of primitive wrapper classes and
java.lang.String on sorting.
Section 7: Fundamentals
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Given a code example and a scenario, write code that uses the
appropriate access modifiers, package declarations, and import statements to
interact with (through access or inheritance) the code in the example.
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Given an example of a class and a command-line, determine the expected
runtime behavior.
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Determine the effect upon object references and primitive values when
they are passed into methods that perform assignments or other modifying
operations on the parameters.
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Given a code example, recognize the point at which an obje ct becomes
eligible for garbage collection, determine what is and is not guaranteed by the
garbage collection system, and recognize the behaviors of the Object.finalize()
method.
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Given the fully-qualified name of a class that is deployed inside and/or
outside a JAR file, construct the appropriate directory structure for that
class. Given a code example and a classpath, determine whether the classpath
will allow the code to compile successfully.
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Write code that correctly applies the appropriate operators including
assignment operators (limited to: =, +=, -=), arithmetic operators (limited to:
+, -, *, /, %, ++, --), relational operators (limited to: <, <=, >,
>=, ==, !=), the instanceof operator, logical operators (limited to: &,
|, ^, !, &&, ||), and the conditional operator ( ? : ), to produce a
desired result. Write code that determines the equality of two objects or two
primitives