Chapter 3. Operators and Assignments

Exam Objectives

  • Determine the result of applying any operator (including assignment operators and the instanceof operator) to operands of any type, class, scope, or accessibility, or any combination of these.

  • Determine the result of applying the boolean equals(Object) method to objects of any combination of the classes java.lang.String, java.lang.Boolean and java.lang.Object.

  • In an expression involving the operators &, |, &&, ||, and variables of known values, state which operands are evaluated and the value of the expression.

  • Determine the effect on objects and primitive values of passing variables into methods and performing assignments or other modifying operations in that method.


Supplementary Objectives

  • Understand the operator precedence and associativity rules.

  • Distinguish between conversions involving casting, widening numeric conversions, and narrowing numeric conversions.

  • State unary numeric promotion and binary numeric promotion rules and the contexts in which they are applied.

  • Understand type conversions for primitive data types on assignment, string concatenation, arithmetic expression evaluation, and method invocation.


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