K&B Book not complete ???

[Roel De Nijs]

I was doing some mock exams at Dan's website and i encountered the following questions:

Question 5
Which of the following are modifiers that can be applied to an interface that is a member of a directly enclosing class? 
 
a.  abstract 
b.  extends 
c.  final 
d.  private 
e.  protected 
f.  public 
 
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Question 6
Which of the following is a modifier that can be applied to an interface that is a member of a directly enclosing class or interface? 
 
a.  static 
b.  synchronized 
c.  transient 
d.  volatile 
e.  implements 
f.  None of the above. 

I can't find the theory about this subject. Am i needing better glasses or is it not in the book?

Same question for this question:

Question 17
 
class A {
  A() {System.out.print("CA ");}
  static {System.out.print("SA ");}
}
class B extends A {
  B() {System.out.print("CB ");}
  static {System.out.print("SB ");}
  public static void main (String[] args) {B b = new B();}
}

[Kishore Dandu]

can you explain your question clearly.

[Roel De Nijs]

Originally posted by Kishore Dandu:
can you explain your question clearly.

i encountered those 3 questions in the mock exams, but i can't find any explanation about them in the K&B book i am using.

so i was wondering: is this in the book or not? do we have to know it for scjp-exam?

[Sara Olsen]

Of course you have to know this. Why don't you give it a try in your compiler

[Bert Bates]

There are two topics here:

The topic of inner interfaces is not on either the 1.4 or the 5.0 exam

The topic of initialization blocks is not on the 1.4 exam (hence it's not in the old edition of the book), but it IS in the 5.0 exam, (and it's in the almost-done-I-swear new version of the book).

hth,

Bert

p.s. I know that Dan has talked about his mocks, and some of them are designed to very closely match the topics on the exam, and some of them are designed to go past what's on the exam. If you're focused on the exam, you might want to find out which set is which

[Roel De Nijs]

That's some good news, so both are not on the 1.4 exam and if i stick to the bible (k&b book, just love the little jokes in it ), i will not encounter any surprises on the exam (if i have good knowledge of every chapter) ?

and which chapters are the most important ones? the k&b book is talking about inner classes popping up in lots of questions, so that's one already.

[Bert Bates]

Most people say that threads, garbage collection and inner classes are probably the trickiest areas on the 1.4 exam.

hth,

Bert

p.s. We think we covered the exam topics pretty well - though a few people have said that they got a little extra threads material to study. We are beefing up (of course no cows were harmed) the threads chapter for the Java 5 version - and remember, for the Java 5 exam, none of the new threads stuff is on the exam.

[Roel De Nijs]

Thanks for the info

Monday will be Judgement Day

[Patrick Punty]

Thanks for the info....
but just to check for the 3rd question which roel had given
the output will be
SA
SB
CA
CB
Am I right ?
Please confirm.

[Roel De Nijs]

yes, that output is correct: first static superclass, then static subclass, then constructor superclass and at least constructor subclass

if i memorized it right

[Joan Pujol]

I don't know if it's my level of english. But what means a interface that is a member of a directly enclosing class? I don't understand it.

It is the same to say a inner interface?

In general, the questions of the exam are linguistically easy? aren't they?