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Scope of questions in SCJP 1.4 on Collections.

 
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Hi friends,
I am preparing for SCJP 1.4. I am studying from K&B. In the book it is mentioned:
"For the exam, you won't need to know much details about the collections, but you will need to know the purpose of each of the key interfaces, and you will need to know which collection to choose based on stated requirement."
The book then goes on to explain the key concepts related to collections without going into the details (code samples,etc) of any of them.
When I tried solving a few tests on collections from Javacertificate.com, I found that there were many code based questions on collections which required a good knowledge of the implementation of the core collection classes.
In the exam do they ask questions based on the implementation of the core collection classes? Or is K&B enough for collections?
Waiting eagerly for a response from you all.
Have a nice day. Bye.
-Sandeep
 
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In my exam, there is no question about the methods/API in Collections
All questions is about their "behaviour" like the questions in K&B
only the exam questions are different style
I have one exam question that ask the "behaviour" of a Set Collection
and in the code there are iterator, nextElement(), hasNext()
but the exam didn't ask about iterator methods
it was about the Set behaviour that can only collect unique Objects
 
Sandeep Achar
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Hi Nanda,
Thanks very much for the quick and detailed response.
Have a nice day. Bye.
- Sandeep
 
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