Sun Career Accelerator Package for Programming with the Java Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (PK-CERTJ-JA1D)

Package Description

Getting trained and certified is a great way to invest in your professional development, but the path to do so can be confusing and costly. Career Accelerator Packages (CAPs) are comprehensive solutions that can help ease the learning and certification process by providing a combination of classroom training, online training, online practice certification exams, and the actual certification exam. These economical packages are designed to help you succeed, and they provide an excellent value for your educational investment.

Specifically, the PK-CERTJ-JA1D Sun CAP is for experienced programmers who are interested in learning the Java programming language, and then validating the newly acquired skill set by taking the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 exam. This product package is comprised of a five-day instructor-led class (SL-275-SE6), a bundle of self-paced web courses (WJB-275A), a second online course dedicated to Java SE Platform 5.0 (WJO-2762), a third online course that highlights the changes coming in Java SE 6, the online practice exam (WGS-PREX-J055), and a voucher to take the certification exam (CX-310-055). The online components in this package are available for six months and the certification voucher is valid for an entire year.

Please note that the goal of Sun certification is to test on a particular job role the certification supports. Thus, certification exams are based on both recommended Sun instructor-led classes and six to twelve months of actual job role experience. Sun does not claim that by taking courses you are guaranteed to pass the certification examinations, however we do state the the courses are an important component in certification preparation.

Sun Corporate Learning Pass members and Sun employees are not eligible for this discounted package. This Career Accelerator Package offer is valid in the country for which course schedules are displayed. Unless specific to Career Accelerator Packages, no other offers or discounts apply.

Package Components

• Java Programming Language (SL-275-SE6)
• Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (CX-310-055)
• ePractice Certification Exam for the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (WGS-PREX-J055C)
• Java Programming Language (WJB-275A)
• New Features in the Java SE 6 Platform (WJO-1001)
• J2SE Platform 5.0 for the Developer: Language Changes (WJO-2762)

Java Programming Language (SL-275-SE6)

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Prerequisites

• Be competent in creating programs in any programming language or have completed the SL-110-SE6: Fundamentals of the Java Programming Language course.
• Create and edit text files using a text editor

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Skills Gained

1. Create Java technology applications that leverage the object-oriented features of the Java language, such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism
2. Execute a Java technology application from the command line
3. Use Java technology data types and expressions
4. Use Java technology flow control constructs
5. Use arrays and other data collections
6. Implement error-handling techniques using exception handling
7. Create an event-driven graphical user interface (GUI) using Swing components: panels, buttons, labels, text fields, and text areas
8. Implement input/output (I/O) functionality to read from and write to data and text files and understand advanced I/O streams
9. Create a simple Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networked client that communicates with a server through sockets
10. Create multithreaded programs

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Course Content

Module 1 - Getting Started

• Examine Java technology
• Analyze a simple Java technology application
• Execute a Java technology application

Module 2 - Object-Oriented Programming

• Define modeling concepts: abstraction, encapsulation, and packages
• Discuss Java technology application code reuse
• Define class, member, attribute, method, constructor, and package
• Use the access modifiers private and public as appropriate for the guidelines of encapsulation
• Invoke a method on a particular object
• Use the Java technology API online documentation

Module 3 - Identifiers, Keywords, and Types

• Use comments in a source program
• Distinguish between valid and invalid identifiers
• Recognize Java technology keywords
• List the eight primitive types
• Define literal values for numeric and textual types
• Define the terms primitive variable and reference variable
• Declare variables of class type
• Construct an object using new
• Describe default initialization
• Describe the significance of a reference variable
• State the consequence of assigning variables of class type

Module 4 - Expressions and Flow Control

• Distinguish between instance and local variables
• Describe how to initialize instance variables
• Recognize, describe, and use Java software operators
• Distinguish between legal and illegal assignments of primitive types
• Identify boolean expressions and their requirements in control constructs
• Recognize assignment compatibility and required casts in fundamental types
• Use if, switch, for, while, and do constructions and the labeled forms of break and continue as flow control structures in a program

Module 5 - Arrays

• Declare and create arrays of primitive, class, or array types
• Explain why elements of an array are initialized
• Explain how to initialize the elements of an array
• Determine the number of elements in an array
• Create a multidimensional array
• Write code to copy array values from one array to another

Module 6 - Class Design

• Define inheritance, polymorphism, overloading, overriding, and virtual method invocation
• Use the access modifiers protected and the default (package-friendly)
• Describe the concepts of constructor and method overloading
• Describe the complete object construction and initialization operation

Module 7 - Advanced Class Features

• Create static variables, methods, and initializers
• Create final classes, methods, and variables
• Create and use enumerated types
• Use the static import statement
• Create abstract classes and methods
• Create and use an interface

Module 8 - Exceptions and Assertions

• Define exceptions
• Use try, catch, and finally statements
• Describe exception categories
• Identify common exceptions
• Develop programs to handle your own exceptions
• Use assertions
• Distinguish appropriate and inappropriate uses of assertions
• Enable assertions at runtime

Module 9 - Collections and Generics Framework

• Describe the general purpose implementations of the core interfaces in the Collections framework
• Examine the Map interface
• Examine the legacy collection classes
• Create natural and custom ordering by implementing the Comparable and Comparator interfaces
• Use generic collections
• Use type parameters in generic classes
• Refactor existing non-generic code
• Write a program to iterate over a collection
• Examine the enhanced for loop

Module 10 - I/O Fundamentals

• Write a program that uses command-line arguments and system properties
• Examine the Properties class
• Construct node and processing streams, and use them appropriately
• Serialize and deserialize objects
• Distinguish readers and writers from streams, and select appropriately between them

Module 11 - Console I/ O and File I/O

• Read data from the console
• Write data to the console
• Describe files and file I/O

Module 12 - Building Java GUIs Using the Swing API

• Describe the JFC Swing technology
• Define Swing
• Identify the Swing packages
• Describe the GUI building blocks: containers, components, and layout managers
• Examine top-level, general-purpose, and special-purpose properties of container
• Examine components
• Examine layout managers
• Describe the Swing single-threaded model
• Build a GUI using Swing components

Module 13 - Handling GUI-Generated Events

• Define events and event handling
• Examine the Java SE event model
• Describe GUI behavior
• Determine the user action that originated an event
• Develop event listeners
• Describe concurrency in Swing-based GUIs and describe the features of the SwingWorker class

Module 14 - GUI-Based Applications

• Describe how to construct a menu bar, menu, and menu items in a Java GUI
• Understand how to change the color and font of a component

Module 15 - Threads

• Define a thread
• Create separate threads in a Java technology program, controlling the code and data that are used by that thread
• Control the execution of a thread and write platform-independent code with threads
• Describe the difficulties that might arise when multiple threads share data
• Use wait and notify to communicate between threads
• Use synchronized to protect data from corruption

Module 16 - Networking

• Develop code to set up the network connection
• Understand TCP/IP
• Use ServerSocket and Socket classes to implement TCP/IP clients and servers

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Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (CX-310-055)

Languages

• English
• Japanese
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Chinese (Simplified)
• German
• Korean
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Spanish

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ePractice Certification Exam for the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (WGS-PREX-J055C)

Technical Requirements

Before purchase, please review:

• Web-based policies
• System requirements

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Skills Gained

• Understand exam formats and question type

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Java Programming Language (WJB-275A)

Course Length

28 Hours

Technical Requirements

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Course Features and Services

• Synchronized audio provided by an expert instructor
• Lab reviews, simulations or demonstrations

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Prerequisites

• Understand the principles of object-oriented programming.
• Create or compile simple programs in a programming language, such as C or C++, or have completed the SL-110: Fundamentals of the Java Programming Language course and have created and compiled simple Java programs.
• Use a text editor to create and edit text files.

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Skills Gained

• Create Java technology applications that leverage the object-oriented features of the Java language, such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.
• Execute a Java technology application from the command line.
• Use Java technology data types and expressions.
• Use Java technology flow control constructs.
• Use arrays and other data collections.
• Implement error-handling techniques using exception handling.
• Create an event-driven graphical user interface (GUI) using Java technology GUI components: panels, buttons, labels, text fields, and text areas.
• Implement input/output (I/O) functionality to read from and write to data and text files.
• Create multithreaded programs.
• Create a simple Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networked client that communicates with a server through sockets.

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Related Courses

Before:

• Fundamentals of the Java Programming Language (SL-110)

After:

• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML (OO-226)
• Java Programming Language Workshop (SL-285)
• Distributed Programming with Java Technology (SL-301)
• GUI Construction with Java Foundation Classes (SL-320)

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Course Content

Module 1 - Getting Started

• Describe the key features of Java technology
• Write, compile, and run a simple Java technology application
• Describe the function of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Note: The terms "Java Virtual Machine" and "JVM" mean a Virtual Machine for the Java platform.
• Define garbage collection
• List the three tasks performed by the Java platform that handle code security

Module 2 - Object-Oriented Programming

• Define modeling concepts: abstraction, encapsulation, and packages
• Discuss why you can reuse Java technology application code
• Define class, member, attribute, method, constructor, and package
• Use the access modifiers private and public as appropriate for the guidelines of encapsulation
• Invoke a method on a particular object
• Use the Java technology application programming interface (API) online documentation

Module 3 - Identifiers, Keywords, and Types

• Use comments in a source program
• Distinguish between valid and invalid identifiers
• Recognize Java technology keywords
• List the eight primitive types
• Define literal values for numeric and textual types
• Define the terms: primitive variable and reference variable
• Declare variables of class type
• Construct an object using new
• Describe default initialization
• Describe the significance of a reference variable
• State the consequence of assigning variables of class type

Module 4 - Expressions and Flow Control

• Distinguish between instance and local variables
• Describe how to initialize instance variables
• Identify and correct a Possible reference before assignment compiler error
• Recognize, describe, and use Java software operators
• Distinguish between legal and illegal assignments of primitive types
• Identify Boolean expressions and their requirements in control constructs
• Recognize assignment compatibility and required casts in fundamental types
• Use if, switch, for, while, and do constructions and the labeled forms of break and continue as flow control structures in a program

Module 5 - Arrays

• Declare and create arrays of primitive, class, or array types
• Explain why elements of an array are initialized
• Explain how to initialize the elements of an array
• Determine the number of elements in an array
• Create a multidimensional array
• Write code to copy array values from one array to another

Module 6 - Class Design

• Define inheritance, polymorphism, overloading, overriding, and virtual method invocation
• Use the access modifiers protected and the default (package-friendly)
• Describe the concepts of constructor and method overloading
• Describe the complete object construction and initialization operation

Module 7 - Advanced Class Features

• Create static variables, methods, and initializers
• Create final classes, methods, and variables
• Create and use enumerated types
• Use the static import statement
• Create abstract classes and methods
• Create and use an interface

Module 8 - Exceptions and Assertions

• Define exceptions
• Use try, catch, and finally statements
• Describe exception categories
• Identify common exceptions
• Develop programs to handle your own exceptions
• Use assertions
• Distinguish appropriate and inappropriate uses of assertions
• Enable assertions at runtime

Module 9 - Text-Based Applications

• Write a program that uses command-line arguments and system properties
• Write a program that reads from standard input
• Describe the C-type formatted input and output
• Write a program that can create, read, and write files
• Describe the basic hierarchy of collections in the Java 2 Software Development Kit (Java 2 SDK)
• Write a program to iterate over a collection
• Write a program that uses generic collections

Module 10 - Building Java GUI's

• Describe the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) package and its components
• Define the terms containers, components, and layout managers, and describe how they work together to build a GUI
• Use layout managers
• Use the FlowLayout, BorderLayout, and GridLayout managers to achieve a dynamic layout
• Add components to a container
• Use the Frame and Panel containers apporpriately
• Describe how complex layouts with nested containers work

Module 11 - GUI Event handling

• Define events and event handling
• Write code to handle events that occur in a GUI
• Describe the concept of adapter classes, including how and when to use them
• Determine the user action that originated the event from the event object details
• Identify the appropriate listener interface for a variety of event types
• Create the appropriate event handler methods for a variety of event types
• Understand the use of inner classes and anonymous classes in event handling

Module 12 - GUI-Based Applications

• Identify the key AWT components and the events that they trigger
• Describe how to construct a menu bar, menu, and menu items in a Java GUI
• Understand how to change the color and font of a component

Module 13 - Threads

• Define a thread
• Create separate threads in a Java technology program, controlling the code and data that are used by that thread
• Control the execution of a thread and write platform-independent code with threads
• Describe the difficulties that might arise when multiple threads share data
• Use wait and notify to communicate between threads
• Use synchronized to protect data from corruption

Module 14 - Advanced I/O Streams

• Describe the main features of the java.io package
• Construct node and processing streams, and use them appropriately
• Distinguish readers and writers from streams, and select appropriately between them

Module 15 - Networking

• Develop code to set up the network connection
• Understand the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
• Use ServerSocket and Socket classes for implementation of TCP/IP clients and servers

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