The Java Language Fundamentals section of the SCJP 1.4 exam objectives lists several topics. This page offers links to resources that cover the following exam objective.

State the range of all primitive formats, data types and declare literal values for String and all primitive types using all permitted formats bases and representations.

The Java Language Specification, Section 4.2.1, Integral Types and Values specifies the range of all primitive integral types--byte, short, int, long, and char.

The range of the integral types is represented by static fields of the wrapper classes java.lang.Byte, java.lang.Short, java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Long, and java.lang.Character. Please see the Field Summary for java.lang.Integer for more information.

To learn how Java represents integers using octal (base 8) and hexadecimal (base 16) please see The Java Language Specification, Section 3.10.1, Integer Literals.

To learn more about the binary representation of integral values please see the Java Ranch Campfire Story titled Cat and Mouse Game with Bits.

The Java Language Specification, Section 4.2.3, Floating-Point Types, Formats, and Values specifies the range of both primitive floating-point types--float and double. For the purposes of the exam, the range of the floating-point types is represented by static fields of the wrapper classes java.lang.Float and java.lang.Double. Please see the Field Summary for java.lang.Double for more information.

To learn how Java represents floating point values please see The Java Language Specification, Section 3.10.2, Floating-Point Literals.

The boolean primitive type is defined in The Java Language Specification, Section 4.2.5, The boolean Type and boolean Values. Boolean literals are defined in The Java Language Specification, Section 3.10.3, Boolean Literals.

Character literals are defined in The Java Language Specification, Section 3.10.4, Character Literals.