OCA/OCP Java SE 7 Programmer I & II Study Guide

Book Preface

This book’s primary objective is to help you prepare for and pass Oracle’s OCA Java SE 7 and OCP Java SE 7 Programmer I & II certification exams. If you already have an SCJP certification, all of the topics covered in the OCP 7 Upgrade exam are covered here as well. And, if for some reason it’s appropriate for you to obtain an OCPJP 5 or OCPJP 5 Java certification, the contents of the book

This book follows closely both the breadth and the depth of the real exams. For instance, after reading this book, you probably won’t emerge as a regex guru, but if you study the material and do well on the Self Tests, you’ll have a basic understanding of regex, and you’ll do well on the exam. After completing this book, you should feel confident that you have thoroughly reviewed all of the objectives that Oracle has established for these exams.

In This Book

This book is organized in two parts to optimize your learning of the topics covered by the OCA 7 exam in Part I and the OCP 7 exam in Part II. Whenever possible, we’ve organized the chapters to parallel the Oracle objectives, but sometimes we’ll mix up objectives or partially repeat them in order to present topics in an order better suited to learning the material. Serialization was a topic on the old SCJP 5 and SCJP 6 exams, and recently (as of the summer of 2014), Oracle reintroduced serialization for the OCP 7 exam. Please of serialization, right down to a Self Test. In addition to fully covering the OCA 7 chapters that cover important and the bonus material will help you cover all those bases. see the Appendix A included with this book for in-depth, complete chapter coverage and OCP 7 exams, Appendix B covers OCPJP 5 and OCPJP 6 topics, and eight aspects of Oracle’s Java SE 6 Developer exam at are available for download at McGraw-Hill Professional’s Media Center see Appendix C for details).

Table of Contents
Part I OCA and OCP
Chapter 1 Declarations and Access Control
Chapter 2 Object Orientation
Chapter 3 Assignments
Chapter 4 Operators
Chapter 5 Working with Strings, Arrays, and ArrayLists
Chapter 6 Flow Control and Exceptions
Part II OCP
Chapter 7 Assertions and Java 7 Exceptions
Chapter 8 String Processing, Data Formatting, Resource Bundles
Chapter 9 I/O and NIO
Chapter 10 Advanced OO and Design Patterns
Chapter 11 Generics and Collections
Chapter 12 Inner Classes
Chapter 13 Threads
Chapter 14 Concurrency
Chapter 15 JDBC