• Describe the key features of Java technology  
• Write, compile, and run a simple Java technology application
• Describe the Java virtual machine\'s (JVM machine\'s) function
• 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
• In a Java technology program, identify the following:
• The package statement
• The import statements
• Classes, methods, and attributes
• Constructors
• 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
• 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 type to another

Module 6 - Class Design

• Define inheritance, polymorphism, overloading, overriding, and virtual method invocation  
• Use the access modifiers protected and \"package-friendly\"
• Describe the concepts of constructor and method overloading
• Describe the complete object construction and initialization operation
• In a Java program, identify the following:
• Overloaded methods and constructors
• The use of this to call overloaded constructors
• Overridden methods
• Invocation of super class methods
• Parent class constructors
• Invocation of parent class constructors

Module 7 - Advanced Class Features

• Describe static variables, methods, and initializers
• Describe final classes, methods, and variables
• Explain how and when to use abstract classes and methods
• Explain how and when to use nested classes
• Distinguish between static and non-static nested classes
• Explain how and when to use an interface
• In a Java software program, identify:
• static methods and attributes
• final methods and attributes
• Nested classes
• interface and abstract classes
• abstract methods

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
• Disable 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
• Write a program that can create, read, and write files
• Describe the basic hierarchy of collections in Java 2 SDK
• Write a program that uses sets and lists
• Write a program to iterate over a collection
• Describe the collection classes that existed before Java 2 SDK
• Identify deprecated classes and explain how to migrate from Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.0 to JDK 1.1 to Java 2 JDK

Module 10 - Building Java GUIs

• Describe the Abstract Windowing 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 desired dynamic layout
• Add components to a container
• Use the Frame and Panel containers appropriately
• Describe how complex layouts with nested containers work
• In a Java technology program, identify the following:
• Containers
• The associated layout managers
• The layout hierarchy of all components

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 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
• Describe the key features of Java technology  
• Write, compile, and run a simple Java technology application
• Describe the Java virtual machine\'s (JVM machine\'s) function
• Define garbage collection
• List the three tasks performed by the Java platform that handle code security