Oracle
Java SE 8 Programmer certification path : exam type, number of questions / duration, minimum% pass
Certification platform
Exam considerations: missing packages, import, files, paths, snippets, comments

Workshop: presentation of the exam and the subjects covered by the questionnaire

– Basics: scope / accessibility of a variable, code execution, imports, object concepts
– Data type: declaration / initialization, casting, primitive types vs reference type, writing of objects, life cycle of an object, wrappers
– Operators and condition, object comparison.
– Tables and loops: creation and route, keywords break, continue.
– Classes, methods and encapsulation: arguments and return types, overloading of methods, class methods, access modifiers, creation and overloading of constructors, encapsulation of fields, impact on changes to an object when passing parameters to methods.
– Inheritance and abstraction: description and benefit, contribution of polymorphism, redefinition of methods, casts of objects, call of constructors of the parent class, use of abstract classes and interfaces.
– Exception management: differentiation between: checked exceptions, unchecked exceptions and Errors, exception catch (try / catch), throw an exception in a method, review of common exceptions (NullPointerException, ArithmeticException, ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, ClassCastException).
– Use of Java API classes: string manipulation (String, StringBuilder), date manipulation (java.time.LocalDateTime, java.time.LocalDate, java.time.LocalTime, java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter, java .time.Period), manipulation of collections (ArrayList, LinkedList, …), writing of Lambda expressions that can be used in predicates.

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).