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Riaan Nel
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Joined: Apr 23, 2009
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Hi Folks
I'm a couple of days away from my OCPJP 6 exam. I've used Devaka's ExamLab for most of my recent preparation, and I'm currently getting around 60% average on the practice exams. I'm a bit concerned about concurrency and generics, but overall, I'm confident that I'll do well.
Any tips that you'd like to share? What are the trickiest questions that I can expect around concurrency, generics (and garbage collection)?
Cheers,
Riaan
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
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Pritish Chakraborty
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Joined: Jun 12, 2012
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Well, the only tip I can think of is that the actual exam will be much easier.
60% on Devaka's exams means that you command respect from my side  I could only score 52% max :P
Concurrency questions would include, for example, the usage of start() twice (which leads to an exception), how to start threads using anonymous class arguments, etc. I didn't really get a synchronized block logic question on my exam, come to think of it, neither deadlock....but don't let your guard down. I was extremely lucky in this regard.
Generics questions will include compilation with warnings, type safety using the wildcard, generic classes and method declarations, etc.
A good garbage collection question I got said that in a class GC which owned an instance variable of itself, in one of it's methods we were creating Object instances and nullifying GC references. I had to think of it as if some imaginary reference was already referring to *this* GC instance, and that got nullified/reassigned. Just make diagrams for that and you're good to go.
All the best!
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