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Most difficult topics of OCAJP 8 exam?

 
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Hi everyone,

I've seen an older thread regarding this question, but I'd like some additional insights, if that's allowed.

What are, in your opinion, the hardest topics covered on the OCAJP 8 eam?

Thanks in advance!

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Shane
 
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The ones which you can't answer ;-)

This exam will try to test whether you know your Java inside out. The questions will test this by using multiple combinations. The questions on seemingly harder topics like Date and Time API will be simpler and on seemingly simple topics like loops will be tricky.

Try to get the essence of the concepts - that will make the hardest questions simple. For an example, try to figure out what happens when you add or remove elements from an ArrayList. If you remove the second element from an ArrayList, with the third element move to the second element's position?

All the best to you.

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Mala
 
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Shane Jensen wrote:What are, in your opinion, the hardest topics covered on the OCAJP 8 eam?


If you don't have a good and solid understanding of every exam topic/objective, each exam topic/objective on the OCAJP certification exam will be hard. If you know how to write Java applications, you might still fail the OCAJP certification exam because it really requires an in-depth knowledge of the exam topics/objectives.
Probably the biggest challenge will be that an exam question is very likely to test you about several different exam topics. So you might think it's a question about exception handling but in fact it's about access modifiers. So if you don't know e.g. the rules for overloading/overriding, you might fail (because many questions might have overloaded and/or overridden methods while other concepts/topics are tested in these questions).

And there are a few other things responsible for making the OCAJP certification exam challenging and hard:
  • the time limit
  • the nerves
  • the assessment of code snippets using nothing but pen and paper (= main reason why you should not use an IDE during your preparation)
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