What is iBatis ?
A SQL Mapper
A J2ee Framework
A JDBC Framework
An ORM Tool
What noted Java developer at his Ph.D. defense answered a planted question with a rap song backed by a recorded rhythm track on a hidden tape recorder?
James Gosling
Guy Steele
Joshua Bloch
Greg Papadopoulos
True or false: It is preferable to write: List dogs = new ArrayList(); instead of List dogs = new ArrayList(); because raw types enable developers to avoid needless verbiage.
True
False
Who agrees with the idea that developers should write "dumb code," meaning straightforward, clean code that follows the most obvious object-oriented principles, in order to get the best compiler optimization -- and that clever, hacked-up, bit-banging code will get poorer results?
Brian Goetz
Heinz Kabutz
Cay Horstmann
All of the above
None of the above
Joshua Bloch says that the strangest thing about the Java platform is _____
Poor Unicode support.
java.lang.Cloneable does not contain clone() method.
The byte type is signed.
The creators of the Java programming language modeled the syntax after C and C++.
java.io.InputStream is an abstract class and not an interface.
Who strongly believes in the importance of unit testing and says that developers should engage in it?
1 and 3
Qusay Mahmoud remarked that "Today's generation of students is becoming known as Generation C." What does "C" stand for?
Create, complete, and collect
Creativity, curiosity, and career
Content, cash, choice, and control
Compete, confer, and collect
For which action can you use the TO_DATE function?
Convert any date literal to a date
Convert any numeric literal to a date
Convert any character literal to a date
Convert any date to a character literal
Format ’10-JAN-99’ to ‘January 10 1999’
Computer science professors Qusay Mahmoud and Cay Horstmann agree that the biggest mistake made by teachers of computer science is
Overwhelming students with too much code complexity too early
Lecturing too much
Failing to educate students in the use of tools
Failing to encourage individual creativity and initiative
1) Can I redefine an X(200) field with a field of X(100).