Errors in the K&B bonus exam?

[Tim Rawerts]

Has anyone else encountered errors in the K&B bonus exam?

I was taking the open book exam, and one questions was creating three long two dimensional arrays, and playing with the elements. The correct answer was D, with the explanation of:

D) compilation error at line 5

D is correct. It is a legal way to create an array of four integers, name 'array'.

There is no 4 dimensional array, and there is no array named 'array'. Also if it is a correct way of creating this array, then compilation error at line 5 is not correct either.

Thanks for your input.

Tim Rawerts

[Nicky Eng]

Hi,Tim.

the open book exam? how many questions you do ? the default number of questions are 65 right?

and why dont you type the whole question here for members here to take a look....

i also wonder what were you talking about...

thanks.

[Tim Rawerts]

Your first two questions make no sense, but here is the question in it's entirety.

public Test{
public static void main(String [] args}
long [][] a1;
long []a2[];

[Tim Rawerts]

Your first two questions make no sense, but here is the question in it's entirety.

public Test{
public static void main(String [] args)
long [][] a1;
long []a2[];
a2 = new long[3][];
a1 = a2;
System.out.println(a1[1][0]);
}
}



a) 0
b) null
c) compilation error at line 5
d) compilation error at line 6
e) compilaiton error at line 7
f) runtime exeception is thrown at runtime


I chose f. Here is the answer I was given

D is correct. It is a legal way to create an array of four integers, named 'array'.

A,B,C,E,F ar invalid attempts to declare and initialize an array, none of them will compile.

[Rupak Khurana]

The correct code that compiles is :-

public class Test{
public static void main(String [] args)
{
long [][] a1;
long []a2[];
a2 = new long[3][];
a1 = a2;
System.out.println(a1[1][0]);
}
}

It produces the putput :-

java Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at Test.main(Test.java:8)

[Tim Rawerts]

OK, I think people are missing the point. I am not looking for the correct answer, but rather has anyone else found errors in the sample exams?

Tim Rawerts

[Nicky Eng]

your demand is confusing me.

[Joyce Lee]

Hi Tim,

I spotted a couple of questions with wrong answers while attempting the K&B's MasterExam mocks. I agree with you the answer should be f.

Joyce

[Tim Rawerts]

Thank you very much Joyce. That is twice now you have helped me out, and I appreciate it.

Tim Rawerts

[Bert Bates]

Hi Tim -

I'm jamming on the 1.5 update right now, so I don't have time to research this, but I think if you go to the Osborne site there is an errata that talks about this error - not sure, just kind of rings a bell. In general, I think the practice exams are very clean - maybe only one or two errors - again this is just what I recall.

HTH,

Bert

[Tim Rawerts]

Thanks Bert. I think it is way cool that you post here. The book is tremendous, and I have not doubts I will pass the exam tomorrow morning.

Tim Rawerts

[Nicky Eng]

I give test on Saturday morning.

all the best to both of us....

hope to hear your result. i'm sure you can pass it easily.

[Mike Sanders]

Yes, I remember coming across this buggy question a couple of times when I was doing the practive exams last week...