Chapter 6Exceptions

OCA exam objectives covered in this chapter:

  • correct Handling Exceptions
    • Differentiate among checked exceptions, unchecked exceptions and Errors
    • Create a try-catch block and determine how exceptions alter normal program flow
    • Describe the advantages of Exception handling
    • Create and invoke a method that throws an exception
    • Recognize common exception classes (such as NullPointerException, ArithmeticException, ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, ClassCastException)

Many things can go wrong in a program. Java uses exceptions to deal with some of these scenarios. The OCA exam covers only the basics of working with exceptions. The rest ...

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