Programmer's Guide to Java™ Certification, A: A Comprehensive Primer, Second Edition

Section 2: Flow Control, Assertions, and Exception Handling (Chapter 5)

• Write code using if and switch statements and identify legal argument types for these statements.

• Write code using all forms of loops including labeled and unlabeled, use of break and continue, and state the values taken by loop counter variables during and after loop execution.

• Write code that makes proper use of exceptions and exception handling clauses (try, catch, finally) and declares methods and overriding methods that throw exceptions.

• Recognize the effect of an exception arising at a specified point in a code fragment. Note: The exception may be a runtime exception, a checked exception, or an error (the code may include try, catch, or finally clauses in any legitimate ...