Test your knowledge of exception handling in Java with this tough, 10-question, multiple choice quiz.

To solve these problems, Java embraced a new approach to exception handling. In Java, we combine objects that describe exceptions with a mechanism based on throwing and catching these objects.

I recently wrote that the chapter in Effective Java devoted to exception handling has been one of the most influential software development chapters I have read.

Not sure what a try catch is? We explain how to use a try catch block in Java and how to write methods that throw exceptions.