Flow Control - SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java Platform SE6 - page 187

Chapter
3

Flow Control

SCJP EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN
THIS CHAPTER:

Develop code that implements an if or switch statement;
and identify legal argument types for these statements.

Develop code that implements all forms of loops and
iterators, including the use of for, the enhanced for loop
(for-each), do, while, labels, break, and continue; and
explain the values taken by loop counter variables during
and after loop execution.

Develop code that makes use of assertions, and
distinguish appropriate from inappropriate uses of
assertions.

Develop code that makes use of exceptions and exception
handling clauses (try, catch, finally), and declares
methods and overriding methods that throw exceptions.

Recognize the effect of an exception arising at a specified
point in a code fragment. Note that the exception may be
a runtime exception, a checked exception, or an error.

Recognize situations that will result
in any of the following being thrown:
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, ClassCastException,
IllegalArgumentException, IllegalStateException,
NullPointerException, NumberFormatException,
AssertionError, ExceptionInInitializerError,
StackOverflowError or NoClassDefFoundError.
Understand which of these are thrown by the virtual
machine and recognize situations in which others should
be thrown programmatically.