The Test Objectives

Sun publishes a rather general statement of the test objectives at http://suned.sun.com/US/certification/java/java_exam_objectives.html. The major sections of the objectives list are the nine categories used for grading the test:

  • Declarations and Access Control

  • Flow Control, Assertions, and Exception Handling

  • Garbage Collection

  • Language Fundamentals

  • Operators and Assignments

  • Overloading, Overriding, Runtime Type, and Object Orientation

  • Threads

  • Fundamental Classes in the java.lang Package

  • The Collections Framework

What Is Not on the Exam

Note that none of the specialized libraries and toolkits—such as the AWT or Swing graphics components, File IO, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), or JavaBeans—are mentioned. This test covers nothing ...

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