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Q1. What is the logic behind the shuffle in Music player ?

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Explain Music player shuffle algorithm.

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Q2. What are the disadvantages of binary search trees?

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Q3. Write a Program to print all nodes of the data structure ?

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Q4. Write a Program to find depth of node binary tree ?

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Ans. public static int getLevel(Node root, int key) {
int levelOfNode = getLevelUtil(root, key, 1);
return levelOfNode;
}

public static int getLevelUtil(Node root, int key, int level) {
if (root == null) return 0;
if (root.data == key) return level;
int left = getLevelUtil(root.left, key, level 1);
int right = getLevelUtil(root.right, key, level 1);
if (left != 0) return left;
else return right;
}

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Q5. How to calculate distance between 2 points using latitude longitude ?

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Q6. Explain In place sorting algorithm ?

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Q7. Given a max-heap represented as an array, Return the n th largest element without modifying the heap.

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Q8. What is the ideal situation / case for using heap sort ?

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Q9. Write code to sort an array.

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Q10. What is the Big O notation for Fibonacci series - both iterative as well as recursive ?

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Q11. What is the difference between dynamic programming and the brute force algorithm?

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Q12. what is parallel array sorting?

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Ans. Java provides a new additional feature in Array class which is used to sort array elements in parallel.New methods have been added to the java.util.Arrays package that use the JSR 166 Fork/Join parallelism common pool to provide sorting of arrays in parallel.

The methods are called parallelSort() and are overloaded for all the primitive data types and Comparable objects.

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Q13. Which data structure would you use to implement LRU cache and Why ? Can you tell me the time complexity for it ?

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Ans. We can use LinkedHashMap as it will give time complexity of O(1) for lookup and We can maintain the insertion order to identify the Last used elements for eviction.

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Q14. What is the difference between time and space complexity ?

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Q15. Given a sorted array, write an algorithm to create a binary tree.

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Q16. Write a method that returns maximum depth of a tree ?

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Q17. Write a program to sort a stack in ascending order You should not make any assumptions about how the stack is implemented The following are the only functions that should be used to write this program: push | pop | peek | isEmpty

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Q18. How would you design a stack which, in addition to push and pop, also has a function min which returns the minimum element? Push, pop and min should all operate in O(1) time

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Q19. Describe how you could use a single array to implement three stacks

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Q20. Design an algorithm and write code to remove the duplicate characters in a string without using any additional buffer.

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Q21. What is the runtime complexity of appending strings to string object and Why ?

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Ans. O(n^2) because each time a string is appended a new String is created and it runs through all the letters to copy them over.

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Q22. Write code to see if a Linked List has cycle in it ?

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Write code using Floyd Algorithm to see if a linked list has cycle in it ? What is it's comlexity ?

Algorithm

Ans. public class LinkedList {

Node start = null;
Node head = null;

class Node {
Integer body;
Node nextNode;

Node(Integer value) {
body = value;
}
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
LinkedList ll = new LinkedList();

ll.addNodeToEnd(5);
ll.addNodeToEnd(10);
ll.addNodeToEnd(15);

ll.traverse();

if(checkIfLoop(l1)){
System.out.println("There is a Loop");
} else {
System.out.println("No Loop");
}
}

private boolean checkifLoop(Test l1) {
Node slow = start;
Node fast = start;
Node faster = start;

while(slow != null ) {
fast = slow.nextNode;
faster = fast.nextNode;
if(slow == fast || slow == faster) {
return true;
}
slow = slow.nextNode;
}

return false;
}

}

Complexity of this algorithm is O(n)

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Q23. Given a linked list with 0 to n node references , Flaten the Linked list

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Q24. Find all paths of length L in an acyclic graph

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Q25. Explain Binary Search

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Q26. Find Max from Stack in O(1) complexity

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Ans. Create one extra field called MAX O(1)

when you an element to the stack check these two condition
1. Stack is empty, then MAX = element
2. Stack is not empty then check if the element is greater than MAX then MAX = element

when getMax fuction is called, then return MAX

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Q27. How different is the Search algorithm when we query Cassandra Tables and When we query Oracle Tables ?

Cassandra

Ans. Relational Database uses linear search if we don't query using indices. Performance for linear search is O(n). If indices have been used , relational database uses binary search. Performance for binary search is O(Log n).

Casandra uses hash search. Performance for Hash Search is O(1).

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Q28. In a Linked list with sorted numbers, insert a new numbers while maintaining the sort order.

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Ans.
public class LinkedList {

   Node start = null;
   Node head = null;

   class Node{
      Integer body;
      Node nextNode;

      Node(Integer value){
         body = value;
      }
   }

   private void insertInMiddle(Integer value){
      head = start;
      if(start == null) {
         start = new Node(value);
         head = start;
         head.nextNode = null;
         return;
      }

      while(head.body < value){
         if(head.nextNode == null || head.nextNode.body >= value){
            Node newNode = new Node(value);
            newNode.nextNode = head.nextNode;
            head.nextNode = newNode;

            break;
         }
         head = head.nextNode;
      }
   }

   private void traverse(){
      head = start;
      while(head != null){
         System.out.println(head.body);
         head = head.nextNode;
      }
   }

   public static void main(String[] args){
      LinkedList ll = new LinkedList();

      ll.insertInMiddle(5);
      ll.insertInMiddle(10);
      ll.insertInMiddle(15);
      ll.insertInMiddle(7);

      ll.traverse();

   }
}

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Q29. Write a program for LinkedList, with method to append node and traversing the list ?

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Ans. public class LinkedList {

   Node start = null;
   Node head = null;

   class Node {
      Integer body;
      Node nextNode;

      Node(Integer value) {
         body = value;
      }
   }

   private void addNodeToEnd(Integer value) {
      if (start == null) {
         start = new Node(value);
         head = start;
         head.nextNode = null;
         return;
      }

      while (head.nextNode != null) {
         head = head.nextNode;
      }

      head.nextNode = new Node(value);
   }

   private void traverse() {
      head = start;
      while (head != null) {
         System.out.println(head.body);
         head = head.nextNode;
      }
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      LinkedList ll = new LinkedList();

      ll.addNodeToEnd(5);
      ll.addNodeToEnd(10);
      ll.addNodeToEnd(15);

      ll.traverse();

   }
}

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Q30. What will happen in a graph traversal if we don't have a check for cycle

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Ans. It will result in never ending loop

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