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Q1211. What is the trade off between using Collections.synchronizedList() on an ArrayList and a CopyOnWriteArrayList?

Core Java

Ans. Synchronized List locks the whole list to provide synchronization and thread safety during the read or write operation, while, CopyOnWriteArrayList doesn’t lock the whole list during these operations.
The CopyOnWriteArrayList class works according to its name i.e. copy-on-write which performs different actions for reading and write operations. For every write operation (add, set, remove, etc), it makes a new copy of the elements in the list. and for the read operations (get, iterator, listIterator, etc), it works on a different copy. So there is no additional overhead during a read operation and its read operation is faster than Collections.SynchronizedList(). Thus, COWAL is better for reading operation than Synchronized List.

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Q1212. Tell me about your greatest accomplishment?

General

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Q1213. What is your role in your current organization?

General

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Q1214. How can we destroy an object ?

Core Java

Ans. We cannot explicitly initiate destruction of an object as no destroy method is available in java. Only Garbage collection can destroy an object.

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Q1215. When does an object cleaned or destroyed by garbage collection ?

Core Java

Ans. When it is no longer referenced or it looses all references which were earlier pointing to it.

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Q1216. What will be result of following code and why

Integer int1 = 1;
Integer int2 = 1;
String str1 = new String("str");
String str2 = new String("str");
String str3 = "str";
String str4 = "str";

System.out.println(int1 == int2);
System.out.println(str1 == str2);
System.out.println(str3 == str4);

Core Java

Ans. true
false
true

Just like Strings, java maintains an integer constant pool too. So 1 will be maintained in integer constant pool and hence reference int2 will point to same integer in pool.

String pool is only for string literals ( defined by "" ) and not for newly created objects and hence str1 == str2 will return false as they are separate objects in memory.

String pool is used for storing string literals so that they can be reused and str3 and str4 will point to same string literal in string pool.

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Q1217. If we have to maintain a value "7" denoting "number of days in a week" as constant variable, Which of the following is the best constant name and Why ?

SEVEN
NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_WEEK
NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_WEEK_7

Core Java

Ans. NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_WEEK

Constant should be such that it uniquely identifies the value it holds and context of the value. SEVEN uniquely identifies the value but doesn't express the context.

Though NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_WEEK and NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_WEEK_7 makes sense in terms of unique value identification and context but 7 at the end of constant name appears useless as all weeks have 7 days and hence it's the only value it can hold. If it would have been "number of days in a month", it would have made sense to include number of days at the end like

NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_MONTH_30
NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_MONTH_31
NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_MONTH_27
NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_MONTH_28

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Q1218. If we have to maintain a value "31" denoting "number of days in a month" as constant variable, Which of the following is the best constant name and Why ?

THIRTY_ONE
NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_MONTH
NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_MONTH_31

Core Java

Ans. NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_MONTH_31

Constant should be such that it uniquely identifies the value it holds and context of the value. THIRTY_ONE uniquely identifies the value but doesn't express the context. NUMBER_OF_DAYS_IN_MONTH expresses the context but doesn't specify the value clearly as different month can have different number of days.

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Q1219. Would you consider creating a constant name for "null" ?

Core Java

Ans. Objective of constant variable is to provide a context to the value and provide a single point of change. In terms of context, i don't see much need for having constant name for null as null is already self explanatory. In terms of providing single point of change, it doesn't make much sense as it would necessitate that all such placeholders either hold null or a common value.

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Q1220. Where does database stored procedures gets stored ?

Database

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Q1221. What is a platform ? Is Java a Software or Hardware platforms ?

Core Java

Ans. Platform is the environment in which a program runs. Java provides a software platform for running JVM based applications and programs.

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Q1222. What is a blank final variable ? Can we initialize a blank final variable ?

Core Java

Ans. A final variable that is not initialized while declaration is a blank final variable.

Yes, we can initialize it within a constructor.

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Q1223. What is the purpose of String Pool ? Don't you think it's a performance overhead to have unnecessary check for string in string pool ?

Core Java

Ans. String Pool makes Java more memory efficient by providing a reusable place for string literals. It might be a little performance inconvenience but results in good amount memory saving.

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Q1224. What is equals method in Java ?

Core Java

Ans. equals is the method of Object class that is overridden by the classes to specify object equality criteria.

As every class extends Object class, the default implementation of equals is carried to them. Default implementation specified in the Object class is that two objects are treated equal if they are same.

i.e

Object x = new Object();
Object y = new Object();
x.equals(y); // false
x=y;
x.equals(y); // true

i.e x.equals(y) if only x==y

Now every class has the option to specify their object equality by overriding equals method. For example - String class has implemented in a manner if the string value contained in them is exactly same.

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Q1225. Is this constructor overloading ?

What is the difference between the 2 methods in Java ?

Class BuggyBread {

BuggyBread(){
}
void BuggyBread(int x){
}
}

Core Java

Ans. No, first method is a constructor whereas the second method is just a normal method. There is no way a constructor can be called explicitly and hence all explicit calls to BuggyBread() would result in compilation error.

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Q1226. Make the following class immutable

public class Employee {

   private long employeeId;

   private String employeeName;

   public long getEmployeeId() {
      return employeeId;
   }

public void setEmployeeId(long employeeId) {
      this.employeeId = employeeId;
   }

   public String getEmployeeName() {
      return employeeName;
   }

public void setEmployeeName(String employeeName) {
      this.employeeName = employeeName;
   }
}

Core Java

Ans. public class Employee {

   private long employeeId;

   private String employeeName;

   public Employee(long employeeId,String employeeName){
      this.employeeId = employeeId;
      this.employeeName = employeeName;
   }

   public long getEmployeeId() {
      return employeeId;
   }

   public long getEmployeeName() {
      return employeeName;
   }
}

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Q1227. What are the different layers of cloud computing ?

Infrastructure

Ans. Paas - Platform as a service
Iaas - Infrastructure as a service
Saas - Software as a service

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Q1228. Which of following is / are valid static final declaration ?

public static final String MAX_NUM = "10";
public static final Object NULL = null;
public static final MathContext MATH_CONTEXT = new MathContext(2,RoundingMode.CEILING);

Core Java

Ans. All are valid declarations.

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Q1229. What is event bubbling ?

JavaScript

Ans. LinkedIn

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Q1230. Which of the following is valid greater than and equal to operator in Java ?

>=
=>

Core Java

Ans. >=

=> will result in error.

=> somewhat looks like lambda operator "->"

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Q1231. What happens when you assign a pre initialized reference some other object ?

Core Java

Ans. Now the reference points to a new object in memory. If that was the only reference for the previous object , it will be marked for garbage collection.

Foe example -

Object obj = new Object();
obj = new Object();

object created in first line will be eligible for garbage collection after line 2 as it looses all it's handlers.

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Q1232. What is replication in Redis ? why do we need it ?

Redis

Ans. Asynchronous Replication of information from master to all slaves. Redis is an in memory storage and hence any crash may result in complete loss of information on a cluster.

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Q1233. What is the difference between Oracle , Cassandra and Redis ?

Database

Ans. Oracle is a relational database. Cassandra is a noSQL Database whereas Redis is an inmemory cache.

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Q1234. What are var args ?

or

What is the use of var args ?

Core Java

Ans. Var args is the feature of Java that allows a method to have variable number of arguments. Var args are used when we are not sure about the number of arguments a method may need. Internally java treats them as array.

Declarations of methods with var args

void method(int... x){};
void method(int x, int... y){};

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Q1235. Why following method declarations are not valid ?

void method(int... x, int y){};
void method(int... x,int... y){};

Core Java

Ans. Because var args are not only allowed with the last argument in the method declaration.

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Q1236. Which method will get called if we call it as method(1)

void method(int x ){};
void method(int... x){};

Core Java

Ans. Though the call an be bind to either of these but in this case, 1st method will get priority and hence will be called.

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Q1237. Can we catch errors in Java ?

Core Java

Ans. Yes we can

try {
// code
} catch (Error ex) {
// handling code
}

but we shouldn't ideally do that as errors are mostly JVM based and not application based and there is rarely we can do something about it. Very likely catching and not re throwing would lead to muting their response or trace.

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Q1238. Do you see any problem with this code

public class BuggyBread {

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      method("Hello","World");
   }

   private static void method(String... args){
      for(String arg:args){
         System.out.println(arg);
      }
   }
}

Core Java

Ans. No, It will compile and execute perfectly fine. As we are using method with var args , we can call it with 0 to n arguments.

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Q1239. Do you see any problem with this code

public class BuggyBread {

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      method();
   }

   private static void method(String... args){
      for(String arg:args){
         System.out.println(arg);
      }
   }
}

Core Java

Ans. This will compile fine as we can provide 0 arguments for a var arg but will print nothing upon execution.

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Q1240. Do you see any problem with this code

public class BuggyBread {

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      method("Hello");
   }

   private static void method(String... args){
      for(String arg:args){
         System.out.println(arg);
      }
   }

   private static void method(String arg){
      System.out.println(arg);
   }
}

Core Java

Ans. It will compile fine and the method call will bind to method with specific argument and not with var arg

i.e private static void method(String arg)

It will print "Hello" upon execution

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