Exam 11: Exception Handling

The ____ methods are used to convert string data to another data type, such as int , double , or bool , without fear of generating an exception.

____________________ applications are designed so that they continue to operate, possibly at a reduced level, when some part of the system fails.

The memory location where the computer stores the list of locations to which the system must return is known as the ____.

When you write a block of code in which something can go wrong, you can place the code in a(n) ____ block.

You can place any number of statements in a try block, including those you know will never throw an exception.

The Exception class contains a read-only property named ____ that contains useful information about an Exception object.

Each ____ block can "catch" one type of Exception .

C# has more than 100 defined Exception subclasses.

An exception of the ____ class is thrown when an attempt is made to store an element of the wrong type within an array.

What types of objects can be explicitly thrown?

Errors you discover when compiling a program are considered to be exceptions.

You can deliberately generate a SystemException by forcing a program to contain an error.

Show the syntax (the general form) of a try … catch pair.

In C#, all exceptions are objects that are members of the ____ class or one of its derived classes.

The system of passing an exception through a chain of calling methods is called ____ the exception.

The StackTrace property of an Exception can be a useful debugging tool. How is this property used when debugging?

Why might a finally block be necessary?

When you catch an Exception , you can print the value of the ____  property to display a list of methods in the call stack so you can determine the location of the Exception .

When an Exception object is thrown and multiple catch blocks are present, what happens?

A(n) ____________________ is any error condition or unexpected behavior in an executing program.