Java Ch 8 – 11 – Flashcards
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When an Object is passed to a method, the method may change the values in the object
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True
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You cannot use the fully-qualified name of an enum constant for this
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A case experssion
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Look at the Following declaration: enum Tree { OAK, MAPLE, PINE } What is the ordinal value of the MAPLE enum constant?
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1
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If the this variable is used as a constructor call,
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A compiler error will result, if it is not the first statement of the constructor
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A class's static methods do not operate on the fields that belong to any instance of the class
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True
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If you have defined a class SavingsAccount with a public static method getNumberOfAccounts(), and created a SavingsAccount object referenced by the variable account20, which of the following will call the getNumberOfAccounts()method?
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SavingsAccount.getNumberOfAccounts();
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The JVM periodically performs this process to remove unreferenced objects from memory.
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garbage collection
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If the following is from the method section of a UML diagram, which of the following statements is true? + equals(object2:Stock) : boolean
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This is a public method that accepts a FeetInches object as its argument and returns a boolean value
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You may use this to compare two enum data values.
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The equals and compareTo methods that automatically come with the enum data type
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Look at the following declaration. enum Tree { OAK, MAPLE, PINE } What is the fully-qualified name of the PINE enum constant?
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Tree.PINE
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If the this variable is used as a constructor call,
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A compiler error will result if it is not the first statement of the constructor
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To copy an object to another object of the same class
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Write a copy method that will make a field by field copy of the two objects
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Enumerated types have this method, which returns the position of an enum constant in the declaration list.
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ordinal
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If you have defined a class named SavingsAccountwith a public static data member namednumberOfAccounts, and created a SavingsAccountobject referenced by the variable account20, which of the following will assign numberOfAccounts to numAccounts?
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numAccounts = SavingsAccount.numberOfAccounts;
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When a method's return type is a class, what is actually returned to the calling program?
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A reference to an object of that class
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The only limitation that static methods have is
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They cannot refer to non-static members of the class
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When the this variable is used to call a constructor,
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. It must be the first statement in the constructor making the call
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You can declare an enumerated data type inside of a method.
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False
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The term for the relationship created by object aggregation is
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Has a
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If you write a toString method to display the contents of an object, object1, for a class, Class1, then the following two statements are equivalent: System.out.println(object1); System.out.println(object1.toString());
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True
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You cannot use the fully-qualifed name of an enum constant for this
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a case expression
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To compare two objects
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Write an equals method that will make a field by field comparison of the two object
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What will be returned from a method, if the following is the method header: public Rectangle getRectangle()
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The address of an object in the class Rectangle
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An instance of a class does not have to exist in order for values to be stored in a class's static fields
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True
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If you write a toString method for a class, Java will automatically call the method any time you concatenate an object of the class with a string.
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True
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Which of the following is not true about static methods?
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They are called from an instance of the class.
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Few programmers use wrapper classes because
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They are immutable, They are not easy to use
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The Character wrapper provides numerous methods for
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Testing and converting char variables
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What will be printed after the after the following code is executed? String str = "abc456"; int i = 0; while (1<6) { if(character.isLetter(str.charAt(i)) System.out.println(Character.toUpperCase(charAt(i))); i++; }
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ABC
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If String str = "RSTUVWXYZ", what will be the value returned from str.charAt(5)?
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W
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If a non-letter is passed to toLowerCase or toUpperCase method, it is returned unchanged
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True
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What will be the value of matches after the following code is executed? boolean matches; String[] productCodes = {"456HI345", "3456hj"}; matches = productCodes[0].regionMatches(true, 1, productCode[1], 2, 3)
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True
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What will be the value of loc after the following code is executed? int loc; String str = "The cow jumped over the moon." loc = str.indexOf("ov");
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15
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In the following statement, what data type must recField be: str.getChars(5, 10, recField, 0);
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char[ ]
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When you are writing with string objects that may have unwanted spaces at the beginning or end of the strings, use the ____ method to delete them.
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trim
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The valueOf() method accepts a string representation as an argument and returns its equivalent integer value.
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False
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StringBuffer objects are immutable.
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False
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The following StringBuffer constructor will StringBuffer str = new String Buffer(25)
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Give the object, str, 25 bytes of storage and not store anything in them
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What would be the results of executing the following code? StringBuffer str = new String Bufffer("Little Jack Horner") str.append("sat on the"); str.append("corner");
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str would equal " Little Jack Horner sat on the corner"
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When using StringBuffer insert method, you cannot insert
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Another StringBuffer type
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What will be the value of strbuff after the following statements are executed? StringBuffer strbuff = new StringBuffer('We have lived in Chicago, Trenton, and Atlanta." strbuff.replace(17,24,"Tampa");
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We have lived in Tampa, Trenton, and Atlanta.
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In a string that contains a series of words or other items of data separated by spaces or other characters, the programming term for the spaces or other characters is
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Delimiter
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To use the class StringTokenizer, you must have the following import statement.
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import java.util.StringTokenizer;
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What will be the tokens in the following statement? StringTokenizer = strToken new StringTokenizer("123-456-7890", "-",true);
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123, 456 7890, and -
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For the following code, how many times would the loop execute? StringTokenizer strToken = new StringTokenizer("Cars, trucks, and SUVs are all types of automobiles."); while(strToken.hasMoreTokens) { System.out.println(strToken.nextToken()); }
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9
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If you are using characters other than whitespaces as delimeters, you will probably want to trim the string before tokenizing; otherwise, the leading and/or following whitespaces will become part of the first and/or last token
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True
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What does the following statement do? Double number = new Double(8.8);
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It Creates a Double Object; It initializes that object to 8.8; It assigns the object's address to the number variable
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To convert the string, str = "285.74" to a double and store it in the variable x, use the following statement.
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double x = Double.parseDouble(str);
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To convert the integer vaiable, number = 56, to a string, use the following statement
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String str = Integer.toString(number);
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which of the following statements will print the maximum value a double variable may have?
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System.out println(Double.MAX_VALUE);
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You must call a method to get the value of a wrapper class object
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False
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Although it is not normally useful to create objects from the wrapper classes, programmers might use wrapper classes because
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They provide static methods that are very useful
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Use the following import statement when using the character wrapper class
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No import statement is needed
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What will be printed after the after the following code is executed? String str = "abc456"; int i = 0; while (1<6) { if(!Character.isLetter(str.charAt(i)) System.out.println(Character.toUpperCase(charAt(i))); i++; }
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456
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If String str = "ABCDEFGHI," what will be returned from Character.toLowerCase(str.charAt(5))?
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f
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What eill be the value of matches after the following code has been executed> boolean matches; String str1 = "The cow jumped over the moon."; String str2 = "moon'; matches = str1.endsWith(str2);
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False
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What will be the value of loc after the following code is executed? int loc; String str = "The cow jumped over the moon." loc = str.lastIndexOf("ov",14);
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-1
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What is the value of str after the followuing code has been executed? String str; Strinf sourceStr = 'Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle"; str = sourceStr.substring(12,17);
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diddl
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Two ways of concatenating two strings are
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Use the concat() method or use the + between the two Strings
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The valueOf() method accepts a value of any primitive data type as an argument and returns a string representation of the value.
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True
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StringBuffer objects are not immutable.
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True
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The parameterless constructor for a StringBuffer object gives the object enough storage space to hold ___
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16 characters
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What would be the results of executing the following code? StringBuffer strbuff = new StringBuffer(12); strbuff.append("The cow"); strbuff.append("jumped over the"); strbuff.append("moon");
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strbuff would equal "The cow jumped over the moon"
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Given the following statement, which of the following is not true? str.insert(8,32)
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The insert will start at position 32
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What will be the value of strbuff after the following statements are executed? StringBuffer strbuff = new StringBuffer('We have lived in Chicago, Trenton, and Atlanta." strbuff.replace(26,33,"Tampa");
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We have lived in Chicago, Tampa, and Atlanta.
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In a string that contains a series of words or other items of data separated by spaces or other characters, the programming term for the data items is
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Token
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If you do not specify delimiters in the StringToken constructor, which of the following cannot be a delimiter?
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Semicolon
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what will be the tokens in the following statements? StringTokenizer strToken = newStringTokenizer("January 1, 2003", ",",true);
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January, 1, 2004, space, comma
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For the following code, how many times would the while loop execute? StringTokenizer strToken = new StringTokenizer('Ben and Jerry's ice cream is great.'); while (strToken.hasMoreTokens) { System.out.println(strToken.nextToken()); }
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7
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If a string has more than one character used as a delimiter, we must write a loop to determine the tokens, one fore each delimiter character.
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False
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What does the following statement do? Float number = new Float(8.8);
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It creates a Float Object; It initializes that object to 8.8; It assigns the object's address to the number variable
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To convert the string, str = "285" to an integer and store it in the variable x, use the following statement
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integer x = Integer.parseInt(str);
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To convert the double variable, d = 543.98, to a string, use the following statement,
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String str = Double.toString(d);
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Which of the following Statements will print the maximum value an integer variable may have?
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System.out.println(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
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You cannot assign a value to a wrapper class object.
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False
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When an "is a" relationship exists between objects, it means that the specialized object has
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All the characteristics of the general object, plus additional chracteristics
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Which of the following statements declares as a subclass of PayType?
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public class Salaried extends PayType
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If ClassA is Derived from ClassB, then
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Public members in ClassB are public in ClassA, but private members in ClassB cannot be directly accessed in ClassA
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In UML diagrams, inheritance is shown
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With a line that has an open arrowhead at one end that points to the superclass
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It is not possible for a super class to call a subclass's method.
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True
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If a subclass constructor does not explicitly call as superclass constructor,
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Java will automatically call the superclass's default constructor just before the code in the subclass's constructor executes
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If a method in a subclass has the same signature as a method in the superclass, the subclass method overloads the superclass method.
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False
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A protected member of a class may be directly accessed by
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Methods of the same class; Methods of a Subclass; Methods in the Same Package
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When declaring class data members, it is best to declare them as
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Private Members
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If you do not provide an access specifier for a class member, the class member is given ___ access by default
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Package
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If ClassC is derived from ClassB, which is derived from ClassA, this would be an example of
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A chain of inheritance
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Every class is either directly or indirectly derived from he Object class.
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True
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If a class contains an abstract method
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You cannot create an instance of the class; The method will have only a header, but not a body, and end with a semicolon; Then Method must be overridden in subclasses
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An abstract class is not instantiated, but serves as a superclass for other classes.
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True
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Given the following statement which of the following is true? public class ClassB implements ClassA{ }
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ClassB must override each method in ClassA
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All fields declared in an interface
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Are final and static
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When on object is a specialized version of another object, there is a(n) ____ relationship between them.
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"is a"
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A derived class can directly access
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Only Public and protected members of the base class
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In the following statement which is the base class? public class ClassA extends ClassB implements ClassC
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ClassB
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In UML diagrams, inheritance is shown
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With a line that has an open arrowhead at one end that point to the base class
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In an inheritance relationship, the derived class constructor always executes before the base class constructor
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False
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If a base class does not have a default constructor,
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Then a class that is derived from it, must call one of the constructors that the base class does have
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If two methods in the same class have the same name but different signatures, the second overrides the first.
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False
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Protected members are
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Not quite private; Not quite different
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Protected class members are denoted in a UML diagram with the symbol
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#
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The difference between protected access and package is
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Protected members may be accessed by methods in the same package or in a derived class, even when the derived class is in a different package
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In a class hierachy
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The more general classes are toward the top of the tree and the more specialized are toward the bottom
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Every class has a toString method and equal's method inherited from the Object class
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True
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If a class contains an abstract method,
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The method will have only a header, but not a body, and end with a semicolon
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All methods in an abstract class must also be declared abstract
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False
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In an interface all methods have
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Public access
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Which of the following statements correctly specifies three interfaces:
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public class ClassA implements Interface1, Interface2, Interface3
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When an interface variable references an object you can use the interface variable to call all the methods in the class implementing the interface.
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False
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What will be the value of x[1] after the following code is executed? int[] x = { 22, 33, 44 }; arrayProcess(x); ... public static void arrayProcess(int[] a) { for(int k = 0; k < 3; k++) { a[k] = a[k] + 5; } }
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38
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A ragged array is
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A two-dimensional array when the rows are of different lengths
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What will be the value of x[8] after the following code has been executed? final int SUB = 12; int[] x = new int[SUB]; int y = 20; for(int i = 0; i < SUB; i++) { x[i] = y; y += 5; }
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60
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What would be the results of the following code? int[] array1 = new int[25]; ... // Code that will put values in array1 int value = array1[0]; for (int a = 1; a < array1.length; a++) { if (array1[a] < value) value = array1[a]; }
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Value contains the lowest value in array1
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What would be the results after the following code was executed? int[] x = {23, 55, 83, 19}; int[] y = {36, 78, 12, 24}; for(int a = 0; a < x.length; a++) { x[a] = y[a]; y[a] = x[a]; }
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x[] = {36, 78, 12, 24} and y[] = {36, 78, 12, 24}
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What will be the value of x[8] after the following code has been executed? final int SUB = 12; int[] x = new int[SUB]; int y = 100; for(int i = 0; i < SUB; i++) { x[i] = y; y += 10; }
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180
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If numbers is a two-dimensional int array that has been initialized and total is an int that has been set to 0, which of the following will sum all the elements in the array?
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for (int row = 0; row < numbers.length; row++) { for (int col = 0; col < numbers[row].length; col++) total += numbers[row][col]; }
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What would be the results after the following code was executed? int[] x = {23, 55, 83, 19}; int[] y = {36, 78, 12, 24}; x = y; y = x;
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x[] = {36, 78, 12, 24} and y[] = {36, 78, 12, 24}
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What would be the results of the following code? int[] x = { 55, 33, 88, 22, 99, 11, 44, 66, 77 }; int a = 10; if(x[2] > x[5]) a = 5; else a = 8;
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a = 5
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If a[] and b[] are two integer arrays, the expression a == b compares the array contents.
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False
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Given the following two-dimensional array declaration, which statement is true? int [][] numbers = new int [6] [9];
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The array numbers has 6 rows and 9 columns
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What does the following statement do? double[] array1 = new double[10];
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All of the above
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The sequential search algorithm
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Uses a loop to sequentially step through an array, starting with the first element
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Any items typed on the command-line, separated by space, after the name of the class are considered to be one or more arguments that are to be passed into the main method.
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True
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Java does not limit the number of dimensions that an array may have.
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True
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The binary search algorithm
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Will cut the portion of the array being searched in half each time the loop fails to locate the search value
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int[] x = {22, 33, 44}; arrayProcess(x[1]); ... public static void arrayProcess(int a) { a = a + 5; }
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33
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An ArrayList object automatically expands in size to accommodate the items stored in it.
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True
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The following statement creates an ArrayListobject. What is the purpose of the notation? ArrayList arr = new ArrayList();
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**It specifies that only String objects may be stored in the ArrayList object.
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What would be the results of the following code? final int SIZE = 25; int[] array1 = new int[SIZE]; ... // Code that will put values in array1 int value = 0; for (int a = 0; a < array1.length; a++) { value += array1[a]; }
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value contains the sum of all the values in array1
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Given that String[] str has been initialized, to get a copy of str[0] with all characters converted to upper case, use the following statement
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str[0].toUpperCase();
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In memory, an array of String objects
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Consists of an array of references to Stringobjects
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For the following code, what would be the value of str[2]? String[] str = {"abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl"};
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A reference to the String "ghi"
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What will be the result of executing the following code? int[] x = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
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An array of 6 values ranging from 0-5 and referenced by the variable x will be created
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You can use this ArrayList class method to insert an item at a specific location in an ArrayList.
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add
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What will be the value of x[8] after the following code has been executed? final int SUB = 12; int[] x = new int[SUB]; int y = 100; for(int i = 0; i < SUB; i++) { x[i] = y; y += 10; }
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180
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In order to do a binary search on an array,
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The array must first be sorted in ascending order
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You can use this ArrayList class method to replace an item at a specific location in anArrayList.
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set
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This ArrayList class method deletes an item from an ArrayList.
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remove
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The String[] args parameter in the main method header allows the program to receive arguments from the operating system command-line.
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True