• There were no questions about instanceof operator, “dangling” else, enum, inner class;
• There was a question about Period, but not Duration and ZonedDateTime;
• There was no question regarding Wrapper constructor, but there was question regarding parseXXX() and valueOf() methods (Read about it in detail);
• More questions were asked about arrays compared to other topics (declaration, initialization);
• There were many questions regarding switch case statements, inner for loops, if conditions;
• There were a lot of questions regarding this() and super(), too. The important rule to find answers to these questions was: this() and super() have to be only first statements of code block;
• There was only one question regarding Lambda and I had seen such question neither in SYBEX nor in Enthuware during my exam preparation (Read about it in detail);
• There were 3 or 4 questions regarding Time API and all questions were almost easy. 95-99% of these questions were covered in the topics of Dates and Times in SYBEX;
• There were about 3 questions regarding pass-by-value;
• There was a question about overloading main method;
• There were many questions with right answer of “compilation fail”;
• There were complicated questions about casting;
• Most important methods of String and StringBuilder were also asked. All of these methods were described in SYBEX book except for append() method with three parameters. Fortunately, I had learned it from Enthuware tests. There were no questions regarding intern(), compareTo(), ensureCapacity(), insert() with four parameters (but insert() with two parameters existed), setLength() methods;
• I was familiar with all the questions asked about Exception in actual exam. Although during my preparation I came across with some Exception subclasses in Enthuware that were not included in SYBEX book, all Exception questions of actual exam were covered in SYBEX book.
My brief thoughts regarding actual exam questions
