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I/O what is needed for exam?

 
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Hi all,
Well goin to get my SCJP on Friday afternoon, have gone through all the JQ+ exams and have found that I am weakest in I/O, so I decided to go back to my Beginning Java 2 by Ivor Horton for more information on the subject. I know all the basic streams and have discoved a multitude of FilterOutputStreams I did not know about such as DeflaterOutputstream, CheckedOutputStream, etc.. Will I ever get questions concerning the streams? Should I at least know they exist for the exam?
 
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As far as I'm concerned you're not going to see those streams, at least I didn't.
Are you using a certification book? If so check the section on IO, I'm sure it'll be sufficient. Make sure you know the File class as well, including its methods.
Good luck,
Sean
 
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Yup, Have read Khalid's book twice, I know pretty much everything about the file class, DataOutputStream (primitives) and the appropriate write methods, RandomAcessFile (r, rw), append in the FileOutputStream, constructors for pretty much all the type of streams, anything that I am missing?
 
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How about BufferedInputStream and BufferedOutputStream?
PrintStream?
PushbackInputstream?
FileReader and FileWriter?
CharArrayReader and CharArrayWriter?
PipedReader and PipedWriter?
StringReader and StringWriter?
BufferedReader and BufferedWriter?
InputStreamReader and InputStreamWriter?
LineNumberReader?
PrintWriter?
PushbackReader?
ObjectOutputStream and ObjectInputStream?
Do you know about encodings?
Obviously, you are not going to get tested on all of these. I just pulled these out of my RHE book. I think I got 4 or 5 questions pertaining to IO.
 
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Yeah I know about those also, know they exist. Also ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream, I know that encoding is changed in the constructor of OutputStreamWriter, I think I know most of it, did all the JQ+ questions. Think I should be prepared
 
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