The Questions

A few questions on the exam are not technical in nature, but they ask about implementation details to ensure that it is your code in the certification project. For example, the question "How did you implement the search functionality?" doesn't require technical know-how to answer it, just familiarity with the steps of the search algorithm you used.

The remaining questions are technical and follow the general formula of "Describe how you implemented the assignment_feature_XYZ . List the advantages and disadvantages of your approach." The following list highlights the most likely features of the assignment you might be questioned on:

• Record searching by user -supplied criteria

• Record locking

• Error and exception handling

• Extending or modifying the supplied classes

• Deprecated methods in the supplied classes

• Design patterns

• RMI versus sockets

• Network server

• GUI design

• JTable details

• Event handling

• GUI-database communication

• Multithreading

• Future enhancements