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Java Programming Basics

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 25 questions in 10 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Consists of class libraries - a Java virtual machine (JVM) and class loader (which comprise the runtime environment) and a compiler - debugger and other tools (which comprise the development kit).






2. Basic code block of a JSP page






3. A Web scripting language that is used in both browsers and Web servers. Like all scripting languages it is used primarily to tie other components together or to accept user input.






4. Indicates that a value is a 64-bit number with one or more digits after the decimal point.






5. A test suite - a set of tools and other requirements used to certify a Java platform implementation conformant both to the applicable Java platform specifications and to Java Software reference implementations.






6. In the Java programming language specification - describes a floating point number that holds 64 bits of data. See also single precision.






7. CRUD: Create - Retrieve - ________ - Delete






8. A Java class that can be loaded into and run dynamically in a Servlet container on a web server; interact with web clients via a request-response model based on HTTP.






9. You can't use this word in a Java program. The word has no meaning. Because it's a keyword you can't create a goto variable.






10. Indicates that a method doesn't return a value.






11. Creates a newly defined type






12. Indicates that if and when an object is serialized a variable's value doesn't need to be stored.






13. A platform-independent file format that aggregates many files into one. Multiple applets written in the Java programming language and their requisite components (.class files & images & sounds and other resource files) can be bundled in a JAR file an






14. Reuses the functionality from a previously defined interface.






15. A set of Java APIs that may be incorporated an optional package for any Java 2 Platform Edition. The Jini APIs enable transparent networking of devices and services and eliminates the need for system or network administration intervention by a user.






16. A tool for checking compliance of applications and applets to a specification.






17. Tests to see whether a certain object comes from a certain class.






18. Indicates that a value is a 16-bit whole number.






19. Causes the computer to repeat some statements over and over again (for instance as long as the computer keeps getting unacceptable results).






20. Limits the computer's ability to represent extra large or extra small numbers when the computer does intermediate calculations on float and double values.






21. A software development environment for writing applets and applications in the Java programming language. Technically - the JDK is the correct name for all versions of the Java platform from 1.0 to 1.1.x.






22. Indicates that a value is either true or false in the Java sense.






23. Introduces statements that are executed when something interrupts the flow of execution in a try clause.






24. Type of Java program (as opposed to a stand-alone program) which is embedded in a web page (requested from a server) and run on a client-side browser






25. ______ uses HTML-like tags in a "*.jsp" web-page on a web server linked to from the client's web-browser as short-hand to render Java Servlet code in a Java .class file by the Servlet/JSP container (done by the "page-compiler" Servlet) running on the