Java Vocabulary UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

Java Vocabulary UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
inheritance - CORRECT ANSWER - relationship between a subclass and its superclass,
the subclass is more specialized than the superclass


constructor - CORRECT ANSWER - a method that initializes a newly instantiated object



getter - CORRECT ANSWER - a method that gets parameters



setter - CORRECT ANSWER - a method that sets parameters



object - CORRECT ANSWER - a value of a class type (Rectangle box = new ractangle -->
rectangle is the Object)


reference - CORRECT ANSWER - a value that denotes the location of an object in
memory (Rectangle box = new Rectangle --> box is the reference to the object)


nested loops - CORRECT ANSWER - a loop that is contained within another loop



typecasting - CORRECT ANSWER - refers to changing an entity of one datatype into
another


condition - CORRECT ANSWER - a circumstance that must be met



overloading - CORRECT ANSWER - a method with the same name, but different
arguments


overriding - CORRECT ANSWER - redefining a method in a subclass

, compiler - CORRECT ANSWER - a program that translates code into machine language



base class - CORRECT ANSWER - a general class, from which a more specialized class
inherits


derived class - CORRECT ANSWER - a class that inherits variables and methods from a
superclass but adds instance variables, adds methods, or redefines methods


polymorphism - CORRECT ANSWER - selecting a method among several methods that
have the same name on the basis of the actual types of implicit parameters


ArrayList - CORRECT ANSWER - a class that implements a growable array of objects



String - CORRECT ANSWER - a sequence of characters



for-each-loop - CORRECT ANSWER - for (Type variable: collection){
Statement
}


do-while-loop - CORRECT ANSWER - do{
statement
}while(condition)


while loop - CORRECT ANSWER - while (condition)



do loop - CORRECT ANSWER - see do-while