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 Q91. What are different types of second level cache ?Hibernate
Ans. 1. EHCache ( Easy Hibernate )
2. OSCache ( Open Symphony )
3. Swarm Cache ( JBoss )
4. Tree Cache ( JBoss )

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Very frequently asked. Usually followed by questions related to private constructor and synchronized access. Frequently asked in JPMorgan and TCS (Based on 2 feedback)
  Q92. Explain Singleton Design Pattern ?Design
Ans. http://www.buggybread.com/2014/03/java-design-pattern-singleton-interview.html

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 Q93. What is Criteria in Hibernate ?Hibernate
Ans. Criteria is a simplified API for retrieving entities by composing Criterion objects.

For example - session.createCriteria(Employee.class).add( Restrictions.like("name", "A%") ).list();

will return all employee objects having name starting with A.

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  Q94. Which Software Development methodology is being used in your current Job ?General
Ans. We are using Agile methodology. I attend daily stand up where the development leads takes the status of assigned stories, achievements, any bottlenecks or challenges. We follow iteration of 2 weeks.

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 Q95. What is your role in current position ?General
Ans. I am working as a Software System Analyst that specializes in understanding Business Requirements, Analyzing them , Performs Cost / Benefit analysis, Make suggestions to business , translate the business requirements into technical requirements, Discuss their feasibility with the technical team, performs sizing in coordination with developers and prepare high level design document.

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  Q96. Explain Application / Server architecture being used in your project ?

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Explain your project architecture ?
Ans. We are using cluster of Web servers and Application servers. Load Balancer is used to manage the load between them. Down the layer we have middleware server and then DB server to access database.

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 Q97. What are the fail safe systems ?Operating System
Ans. Fail Safe systems are tolerant systems that continue processing even if they sense any problem. the objective here is to continue with the processing even if there are some problems instead of completely shutting it down. Example could be to catch an exception and still letting it complete with partial results.

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  Q98. Explain the challenging problems you faced recently and how you overcame it ?General
Ans. [Open Ended Answer]

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Must know at all levels. Among Top 10 frequently asked questions in Java. Very frequently asked to fresh graduates or less experienced professionals.
  Q99. What is Inheritance ?Core Java
Ans. Its a facility for code reuse and independent extension wherein a derived class inherits the properties of parent class.

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  Q100. What is a Destructor ? Do we have Destructors in Java ?Core Java
Ans. Destructor is used to de-allocate memory allocated by objects.

There are no destructors in Java. Alternatively, Java provides Automatic garbage collection i.e automatically releasing the un-referenced memory.

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 Q101. Explain Exception Hierarchy in Java SE ?Core Java
Ans. <a href="http://www.programcreek.com/2009/02/diagram-for-hierarchy-of-exception-classes/" rel="nofollow">http://www.programcreek.com/2009/02/diagram-for-hierarchy-of-exception-classes/</a>

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Frequently asked question in companies using Rest Web services.
 Q102. Different between POST and PUT in Rest Rest
Ans. PUT requests are only meant to place the object as it is on server. For example - You want a file to be uploaded and then placed in a particular folder or you want an Employee object to be persisted in the table.

POST requests are also meant to transfer information from client to server but that information once received at the server is evaluated , modified or refactored before persisting.

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 Q103. What are the benefits of Enums ?Core Java
Ans. Enums in Java are used to declare predefined objects and then reuse them. they offer many benefits

1. Enum instance are type safe and thread safe.

2. Enum instances are singleton and hence reused.

3. If we use Enums with Switch , It makes sure that the passed argument is either of its instance and hence provides a safeguard.

4. If we use Enum with Sorted Collections we can sort the elements with a predefined priorities ( as per constant declaration in enum )

5. We can use Enum as a Factory by defining its constructor.

6. We can store related constant data within enum. For example - If we know the values for the map upfront, we can alternatively use an enum.

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 Q104. How to Bulk upload the data into Oracle database?Database
Ans. We can use external table feature of Oracle.

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Frequently asked Design Pattern interview question.
 Q105. What is a prototype design pattern ?Design
Ans. The prototype pattern is a creational design pattern. It is used when the type of objects to create is determined by a prototypical instance, which is cloned to produce new objects. Prototype is used when we need duplicate copies of objects.

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  Q106. Difference between Array and ArrayList ?Core Java
Ans. <a href="http://javahungry.blogspot.com/2015/03/difference-between-array-and-arraylist-in-java-example.html" rel="nofollow">http://javahungry.blogspot.com/2015/03/difference-between-array-and-arraylist-in-java-example.html</a>

  Sample Code for ArrayList

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 Q107. What will be the crontab to run a job every last day of month ?Unix
Ans. 59 23 28-31 * * [ "$(date +%d -d tomorrow)" = "01" ] && job_name

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 Q108. Write a unix command to find top 10 files by size ?Unix
Ans. du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10

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 Q109. What are fields that gets displayed when you execute "Top" command and briefly explain each field ?Unix
Ans. PID - process identification number is an identification number that is automatically assigned to each process when it is created

USER - User Name

PR - PR is the process actual priority

NI is the nice value, which is a user-space concept.

VIRT -Virtual Image (kb). The total amount of virtual memory used by the task.

RES - Resident size (kb). The non-swapped physical memory a task has used.

SHR - Shared Mem size (kb). The amount of shared memory used by a task.

S - Process Status. The status of the task which can be one of:

D = uninterruptible sleep
R = running
S = sleeping
T = traced or stopped
Z = zombie

%CPU - % CPU usage

%MEM - % MEM Usage

TIME - Total CPU time the task has used since it started.

COMMAND - Command which was used to execute the process

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  Q110. What is an exception and exception handling in Java ?Core Java
Ans. An Exception in java is the occurrence during computation that is anomalous and is not expected.

Exception handling is the mechanism which is used to handle such situations.


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 Q111. Scale yourself on Java on the scale of 1 to 10General
Ans. [Open Ended Answer]

The objective of the question is to check how efficient one is in the language so that appropriate level questions are asked. Don't tell too high number if you are being interviewed for a junior or mid level position as the interviewer may throw advance level questions.

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 Q112. Which environment variables do we need to set in order to run Java programs?Core Java
Ans. PATH, CLASSPATH and JAVA_HOME

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 Q113. Can an application have multiple main methods within different classes ? If yes, How will the app decide which one to be executed ?Core Java
Ans. Yes we can have a main method with string[] argument in every class of an application. When we execute an app we specify the starting point i.e the class that will get the control first and hence main method of that class gets executed.

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 Q114. Does importing a package imports all its sub packages too ?Core Java
Ans. No, but we can use wild card (*) to do so

For example -

import java.util.*

will import all packages with name starting with java.util

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 Q115. What is the default value of a declared object reference ?Core Java
Ans. Null

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 Q116. Is there a way to know size of an object in Java ?Core Java
Ans. No, Java doesn't have a sizeOf operator. In C / C++ , its required to determine how much memory allocation is required which is not the case with Java. Java handles memory allocation and deallocation intrinsically.

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 Q117. What are the different ways to handle an exception ?Core Java
Ans. 1. Wrap the desired code in try block followed by a catch / finally to catch the exception

2. Declare the throws clause with exceptions that the code is expected to throw as an indication to the calling method to take care of it.

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 Q118. How does Java handle integer overflows and underflows?Core Java
Ans. It uses those low order bytes of the result that can fit into the size of the type allowed by the operation.

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 Q119. Is delete a keyword in Java ?Core Java
Ans. No, delete is not a keyword in Java. Destruction of objects is taken care by Java Garbage Collection mechanism.

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 Q120. Is exit a keyword in Java ?Core Java
Ans. No exit is a method to exit execution of a program.

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