Java 2, 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055, Online Training

Course Topics: 12

Estimated Time Needed: 12 hour(s)

Audience: This training course is for anyone preparing for the Sun Java Certified Programmer exam (Exam 310-055).

Course Description: The Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform 5.0 certification allows web programmers to prove a thorough knowledge of Java programming structure and the ability to create Java applications. This study guide online course will cover all of the knowledge needed for the 310-055 test to become a Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform 5.0.

Course Tutorials Include:

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055: 1 Overview

Description

This course gives a foundation of Java fundamentals upon which to build. The course introduces the use of the Java language and the Java Virtual Machine, the basics of syntax and control flow, compiling and running a Java application, and other fundamental topics.

Objectives

• Examine the Java development environment
• Identify fundamentals of Java syntax
• Describe how to compile and run a simple Java application
• Describe how to construct simple variables and arrays
• Describe how to construct simple expressions and control flow

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055: 2 Object-Oriented Concepts

Description

This course teaches the fundamentals of object-oriented programming concepts and their application in a Java environment.

Objectives

• Identify object-oriented programming concepts
• Describe how Java implements object-oriented programming
• Describe the structure of classes
• Describe how simple inheritance is used
• Describe class and variable access modifiers

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055: 3 Java Core Packages

Description

This course teaches the organization of the core Java classes into packages.

Objectives

• Describe how Java classes are organized into packages
• Estimate the lifetime of a Java object
• Explain the difference between Java applications and applets

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055: 4 Java AWT and JFC

Description

This course gives a foundation of Java fundamentals upon which to build. The course introduces the use of the Java language and the Java Virtual Machine, the basics of syntax and control flow, compiling and running a Java application, and other fundamental topics.

Objectives

• Describe how to construct a graphically-oriented interface in Java
• Identify the classes that comprise the Abstract Windowing Toolkit
• Identify the graphically-oriented Java Foundation Classes
• Examine how the event-listener mechanism handles events

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055: 5 File Input/Output

Description

This course teaches the fundamentals of file input and output in Java.

Objectives

• Manipulate files, directories and their contents from within Java applications
• Identify how to open and close files from within a Java application
• Describe how to read and write files from within a Java application
• Describe how to use formatting specifiers to construct custom output

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055: 6 Object Serialization

Description

This course teaches how to use classes and methods in the java.io package to serialize object data.

Objectives

• Describe fundamentals of object serialization
• Examine how to implement the Serializable interface
• Examine how access qualifiers affect serialization
• Identify how to override default serialization behavior
• Describe which classes provide their own serialization behavior

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055: 7 Threads, Exception Handling and Assertions

Description

This course teaches how to create applications that use threads to simultaneously carry out multiple tasks, and how to use exceptions and assertions to detect and handle unexpected run-time conditions.

Objectives

• Identify how to create and use threads
• Describe how to use exceptions
• Identify how to create and use try, throw and catch blocks
• Identify how to create and use assertions

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055: 8 Dates and Numbers

Description

This course teaches how to work with dates, numbers and currencies in Java. It also covers how to create applications that search text strings and files for patterns of text, or tokens.

Objectives

• Identify the Java Date and Number classes
• Describe how to instantiate and use the DateFormat and NumberFormat classes
• Describe how to use the Scanner class to tokenize input
• Describe how to use the split method of the String class to split a text string

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055: 9 Networking Java Applications

Description

This course teaches how to use the java.net package to create networking applications in Java.

Objectives

• Examine Java's networking classes
• Identify how to create client/server applications

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055:10 Generics and Collections

Description

This course teaches how to create groupings of objects using collections and how to use generics to assign some type safety to those collections. The course covers the four major categories of collections, type safety and type erasure, sorting and searching in collections and arrays, and the use of polymorphism with generics.

Objectives

• Describe how to use sets, maps, lists and queues
• Describe how to sort and search collections and arrays
• Describe how to use generics for compile-time type safety
• Describe how to mix legacy code with generic code

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055:11 Database Connectivity Fundamentals

Description

This course teaches how to create Java applications that communicate with databases using Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC) technology.

Objectives

• Discuss Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC)
• Identify how to open, process and close a database connection from a Java application
• Describe how to read and write information between an ODBC database and a Java application
• Describe how to process information obtained from an ODBC database
• Describe how to handle errors encountered while an ODBC database is open

Time: 1 hour(s)

Java 2 5.0 Programmer Certification 310-055:12 Key Topics and Features

Description

This course provides a summary and highlights of key topics covered in other courses in this series.

Objectives

• Review key features of the Java language and development environment

Highlight key topics covered during the series