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  • Study Notes For SCPJ2 Exam

    • Testing objectives for the new sun certified programmer for Java2 platform.

    • Section 1 : Declaration and Access Control

      • Arrays

      • Access Modifiers

      • Constructors

      • Legal return types for methods

    • Section 2 : Flow control and Exception Handling

      • if and switch statements

      • Forms of loops, break and continue statements

      • Exception handling clauses (try, catch, finally)

    • Section 3 : Garbage Collection

    • Section 4 : Language Fundamentals

      • Source files, import statements, declarations of package, interface, classes, methods, variables and identifiers

      • main method, command line arguments, keywords and identifiers

      • Default value of an array element or a variable

      • Primitive data types and literals

    • Section 5 : Operators and assignments

      • Operators

      • Converting and Casting

      • boolean equals(Object obj) method

      • Operators &, |, &&, ||

      • Passing variables into methods

    • Section 6 : Overloading, Overriding, Runtime Type, and Object Orientation

      • Benefits of encapsulation in object oriented design and the relationships "is a" and "has a".

      • Overridden or overloaded methods and parental or overloaded constructors.

      • top level classes, inner classes, static inner classes, and anonymous inner classes.

    • Section 7 : Threads

      • Definition, instantiation, and starting of new threads

      • Conditions that might prevent a thread from executing.

      • synchronized, wait, notify, notifyAll, communication between threads, object locks.

      • Some important thread concepts

      • API for Thread class

    • Section 8 : The java.awt PACKAGE

      • Painting in Java

      • Layout Managers

      • Components

      • Listener classes and methods, affected component, mouse position, nature, and time of the event.

    • Section 9 : The java.lang PACKAGE

      • java.lang.Math class: abs, ceil, floor, max, min, random, round, sin, cos, tan, sqrt.

      • Significance of the immutability of String objects.

    • Section 10 : The java.util PACKAGE

    • Section 11 : The java.io PACKAGE

      • Using objects of the file class to navigate a file system.

      • InputStreamReader and OutputStreamWriter - translation between Unicode and either platform default or ISO 8859-1 character encoding

      • Valid constructor arguments for FilterInputStream and FilterOutputStream subclasses.

      • FileInputStream, FileOutputStream, and RandomAccessFile objects.

      • Permanent effects on the file system of constructing and using FileInputStream, FileOutputStream, and RandomAccessFile objects.

      • Hierarchy of IO package, methods of InputStream, OutputStream, Reader, Writer and a list of methods that do not throw IOException.