Java 8 Programmer II Study Guide: Exam 1Z0-809

The exam for the Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8 Programmer certification is hard. New APIs, lambdas, and streams, it covers a lot. But this book can help you.

This book has complete coverage of the Java 8 SE Programmer II (1Z0-809) exam objectives. Each chapter presents the content in a simple and conversational style to facilitate the comprehension of the topics. You'll also find key points and sample questions at the end of each chapter to reinforce key concepts and prepare you for the real exam.

Most study guides follow the topic structure of the certification exam. This book doesn't. The chapters are organized in a way I feel it's more natural to present the topics:

Part One | Class Design
One. Encapsulation and Immutable Classes
Two. Inheritance and Polymorphism
Three. Inner Classes
Four. Interfaces
Five. Enumerations

Part Two | Generics and Collections
Six. Generics
Seven. Collections

Part Three | Lambda Expressions
Eight. Functional Interfaces
Nine. Lambda Expressions)
Ten. Java Built-In Lambda Interfaces
Eleven. Method References

Part Four | Streams and Collections
Twelve. Streams
Thirteen. Iterating and Filtering Collections
Fourteen . Optional Class
Fifteen. Data Search
Sixteen . Stream Operations on Collections
Seventeen. Parallel Streams
Eighteen. Peeking, Mapping, Reducing and Collecting
Nineteen. Files and Streams

Part Five | Exceptions and Assertions
Twenty. Exceptions
Twenty-one. Assertions

Part Six | Date/Time API
Twenty-two. Core Date/Time Classes
Twenty-three. Time Zones and Daylight Savings

Part Seven | Java I/O
Twenty-four. Java I/O Fundamentals
Twenty-five. NIO.2

Part Eight | Concurrency
Twenty-six. Thread Basics
Twenty-seven. Concurrency
Twenty-eight. Fork/Join Framework

Part Nine | JDBC and Localization
Twenty-nine. JDBC API
Thirty. Localization