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Garbage Collection Certification Objectives

State the behaviour that is guaranteed by the garbage collection system, and write code that explicitly makes objects eligible for collection.

The above objective has been expanded as:

State the behavior that is guaranteed by the garbage collection system.
Write code that explicitly makes objects eligible for garbage collection.
Recognize the point in a piece of source code at which an object becomes eligible for garbage collection.