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Are null,true,false ,goto keywords? what is the diffeence between a keyword and reserved literal? Any i expect questions on keywords in the scjp exam?


 
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See this. Goto is a keyword; null, true and false are literals. You should expect questions on the exam which use a keyword as an identifier while the question seems to be about method overloading i.e. sometimes the questions trick you into focusing on something else and actually there's a problem somewhere else...
 
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That means I have to remember all those keywords and the literals and see if the question violates the rule by using those as an identifier...
 
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If you see the keywords list, the keywords are not very tough to remember. In fact I think you'll not need to remember them, they are used in daily programming so we remember them without any special efforts. You might get a question that uses an identifier like goto or const (which are unused keyword so people don't remember them). The SCJP exam is very tricky, so the best way to get high score is to give a LOT of mock exams. That way you'll know almost all of the traps that the exam might try to catch you into. (I'm sure you noticed the keywords try and catch in my last sentence )
 
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hey by the way what is strictfp, transient, and volatile?
 
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strictfp, transient, and volatile are java keywords and their sense is as mentioned below

transient - This keyword is used to avoid the persistence of any variable during the serialization. You might find the detailed explanation here

 
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