What you'll learn

Developers want to write software and build programs that do awesome things, but things rarely go smoothly. Unexpected errors and issues occur all the time, so making our software resilient is indispensable. Exception handling is a fundamental mechanism to achieve this. In this course, Handling Exceptions (Java SE 8 Programmer I Certification 1Z0-808), you will learn the tips, tricks, and pitfalls of exception handling in Java. First, you will revise the basic syntax of try/catch/finally blocks, including chaining catch blocks. Then, you will revise the exception class hierarchy, as well as the most frequent checked and unchecked exceptions as well as errors that you are likely to encounter on the exam. Finally, you will see that throwing exceptions has certain rules that must be satisfied for the application to work.

When you're finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of exception handling to nail any exam question related to the topic.