About Question enthuware.ocpjp.i.v11.2.3068 :

[DazedTurtle]

With option 5, the "toArray()" method doesn't work because it returns an Object array, and we're trying to assign it to a String array, right?

As for the "<T> T[] toArray(T[] a)" method, would that have worked if option 5 had instead been written

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String[] sa;
values.toArray(sa);

or would it be something else?

[admin]

As per List API for the <T> T[] toArray​(T[] a) method:

If the list fits in the specified array, it is returned therein. Otherwise, a new array is allocated with the runtime type of the specified array and the size of this list.

and

Throws:
ArrayStoreException - if the runtime type of the specified array is not a supertype of the runtime type of every element in this list
NullPointerException - if the specified array is null

Thus, String[] sa; values.toArray(sa); will throw a NPE.

You can do this:
String[] sa = values.toArray(new String[0]); //valid, sa will be assigned a new array of Strings containing all the elements of the array pointed to by values.

Also, you should get into the habit of writing and executing test programs to see what happens. It is an important activity in exam preparation.

[kabanvau]

Option 1:
The lambda expresion is syntactically incorrect. If you want to specify the type of the lambda variables or if there are more than one arguments, then you have to put the argument list within parentheses, like this: values.forEach((var a, var b)->a.compareTo(b));


it will not compile:

values.forEach((var a, var b)->a.compareTo(b));

It should be values.sort((var a, var b)->a.compareTo(b));

[admin]

You are right. It should be sort. Fixed.
thank you for your feedback!

[MM987MM]

Option 4.
values.removeIf((var k)->k.equals("a") );
is marked as a correct answer.

It shouldn't be correct, because there is "var" which makes the compilation impossible.
The correct answer should be:
values.removeIf((k)->k.equals("a") );

[admin]

You are most likely using an older version of JDK. It compiles fine with JDK 11.