OCA: Oracle Certified Associate Java SE 8 Programmer I Study Guide Chapter 3 Question 19

[Frenkel Smeijers]

Which of the following are true? (Choose all that apply)
A. Two arrays with the same content are equal.
B. Two ArrayLists with the same content are equal.
C. If you call remove(0) using an empty ArrayList object, it will compile successfully.
D. If you call remove(0) using an empty ArrayList object, it will run successfully.
E. None of the above.

The books says B and C are the correct answer.

ArrayList does override equals() and defines it as the same elements in the same order.

About answer B, I think it's wrong.
English is not my first language and I interpret "same content" as "contains the same elements ignoring the order of the elements".
Is my interpretation of "same content" wrong?

[Ganesh Patekar]

Book's explanation is correct.

Frenkel Smeijers wrote:English is not my first language and I interpret "same content" as "contains the same elements ignoring the order of the elements".

Mine too but I think It's not about what we think but what implementer of the language Or that method says since Java 8 Doc: equlas(Object o) method says

Java 8 Doc: equals(Object o) method of List wrote:In other words, two lists are defined to be equal if they contain the same elements in the same order.

 
and book says the same on page no 133 equals() method.

Is my interpretation of "same content" wrong?

I think yes, at least in this scenario.