What nonaccess modifiers are covered in the exam?

[Ed Cardenas]

According to the book of Mala Gupta, only abstract, final, and static are covered.
Is that true?

[Roel De Nijs]

I didn't take the exam, so this answer is still some kind of an educated guess (or gamble if you will ). The exam topics are also not conclusive on this issue (because non-access modifiers are not mentioned).

Let's start with an overview of the non-access modifiers:

static

abstract

final

synchronized

volatile

transient

native

strictfp

Modifiers static, abstract and final are covered in the book. synchronized and volatile are thread related keywords (that's an OCPJP7 topic). The keyword transient is used with object (de)serialization (that's not even an OCPJP7 topic anymore). When the method implementation is defined in another language than Java, you use the native keyword (again not on the OCAJP7 exam). Finally strictfp, it's used when you want floating point calculations in some class or method to adhere a specific standard (IEEE 754).

So just covering static, abstract and final makes sense

Hope it helps!

[Ed Cardenas]

Good point.

Maybe the best option for me is to review the other nonaccess modifier.

[Roel De Nijs]

Ed Cardenas wrote:Maybe the best option for me is to review the other nonaccess modifier.

That's up to you of course. If you feel more confident with reviewing the non-access modifiers I would say (to quote a sports brand): just do it!

I think you'll be just fine if you are able to know these modifiers (so you know these can not be used as identifiers) and just know for what purpose they are used. So that's actually the paragraph after the non-access modifiers. Coincidence? I don't think so