Study Guide: focus

[Gian Franco]

Good morning Jeanne and Scott, all the best for a happy & healthy new year.

In an attempt to polish an old certification (SCJP5) certifying for SE 8 this year is in my radar ;)

Were does the focus lie nowadays when it comes to this certification?

Thank you, kind regards,

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

The biggest feature in Java 8 was lambdas/functional programming. This topic is used in questions that cover many of the other objectives as well. So you have to know this topic REALLY well.

[Scott Selikoff]

If you plan to take the upgrade exam from 6 or earlier, make sure you read the appendix. There's a lot of stuff (from OCA 8 and OCP 7) that are required knowledge for the upgrade exam and not in the OCP 8 objective list.

[Roel De Nijs]

Gian Franco wrote:In an attempt to polish an old certification (SCJP5) certifying for SE 8 this year is in my radar ;)

Were does the focus lie nowadays when it comes to this certification?

So you need the "Upgrade to Java SE 8 OCP ( Java SE 6 and all prior versions)" exam (1Z0-813). Here you'll find all exam topics you need to know to pass this exam.

Besides the new Java 8 features (streams, lambda expressions, interfaces with default and static methods, Date/Time API) you also need to learn about new Java 7 features (diamond, multi-catch, try-with-resources, NIO.2). Probably the best you can do is purchase an OCPJP7 study guide and use it in your preparation to study the Java 7 related exam objectives.