Flow Control and Exception Handling Certification Objectives

• Write code using if and switch statements and identify legal argument types for these statements.
  
  
• Write code using all forms of loops including labeled and unlabeled use of break and continue, and state the values taken by loop control variables during and after loop execution.
  
  
• Write code that makes proper use of exceptions and exception handling clauses (try, catch, finally) and declares methods and overriding methods that throw exceptions.
  
  

1.4 Exam: Additional objectives

• Recognize the effect of an exception arising at a sepcified point in a code fragment. Note: The exception may be a runtime exception, a checked exception, or an error (the code may include try, catch, or finally clauses in any legitimate combination).
  
  
• Write code that makes proper use of assertions, and distinguish appropriate from inapporopriate uses of assertions.
  
  
• Identify correct statements about the assertion mechanism.

For additional study materials try:
    Sun: Programming with Assertions
    Developerworks: Working with Assertions
    JavaWorld: Understand the mechanics of ... new assertion facility