Java – Terms UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

Java – Terms UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
class - CORRECT ANSWER - a template for an object, containing all the variables and
methods each object gets when instantiated.


object/instance - CORRECT ANSWER - used to get the program to do what you want,
using the variables and methods defined in the class.


method - CORRECT ANSWER - Java's term for a function or command - they are a set of
instructions.


instantiation - CORRECT ANSWER - creating a new object from a class by calling one of
the constructors in that class


instance variable - CORRECT ANSWER - a variable that's defined outside the methods of
a class, so it's available to all methods in that class (if it's public, all classes in the project)


constructor - CORRECT ANSWER - a declaration in a Java class that instantiates an
object


default constructor - CORRECT ANSWER - a constructor with no parameters



parameters - CORRECT ANSWER - variables you put inside the parentheses of a method,
separated by commas, to indicate what data you'd like to pass to that method


cast - CORRECT ANSWER - to convert one data type into another by putting the desired
type in parentheses in front of the original


scope - CORRECT ANSWER - the range of access a variable has within a project