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Q1711. Which type of testing involves use of mocking frameworks ?

Testing

Ans. Unit Testing

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Q1712. Can and Should we mock calls in integration tests ?

Testing

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Q1713. Can we instantiate the object of derived class if parent constructor is private ?

Core Java

Ans. No

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Q1714. How do you design microservices?

Design

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Q1715. Can we have a sub enum within an enum ?

Core Java

Ans. Yes

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Q1716. Write a SQL to remove records with a duplicate field in a Table ?

Database

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Q1717. If a Map needs to be accessed simultaneously by multiple threads, which collection class should be used ?

Core Java

Ans. ConcurrentHashMap

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Q1718. What is the difference between stream and parallel stream ?

Core Java

Ans. streams are used for sequential processing of data and parallel streams are used for parallel processing of data (only if the underlying processor is multicore).

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Q1719. Difference between stateless and stateful rest services ?

Rest

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Q1720. What are the advantage of Abstract classes over interfaces with respect to Java 7 ? and What changed in Java 8 to help facilitate that in Java 8 ?

Core Java

Ans. Abstract Classes provide default implementations of methods that are inherited by the classes that extend them, which was not the case for Interfaces. This changed in Java 8, where default implementations are provided for methods.

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Q1721. Explain Hibernate Validation ?

Hibernate

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Q1722. Which validation frameworks have you worked on ?

Frameworks

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Q1723. Can we mock static methods ?

Testing

Ans. Yes we can use PowerMock. With Mockito , we cannot mock static methods.

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Q1724. Is Cassandra read optimized or Write optimized ?

Cassandra

Ans. Read optimized

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Q1725. How Cassandra provides better Read performance than Oracle Indices ?

Database

Ans. Cassandra uses Hash Search which provides a look time of O(1) whereas Oracle Indices uses Binary Search that provide a lookup time of O(Log n).

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Q1726. 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).

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Q1727. Difference between Normalization and Denormalization ?

Database

Ans. Normalization is the process of splitting one Table into multiple so as to avoid Data duplication whereas Denormalization is the process of reducing Tables that creates data duplication but would remove joins in the queries.

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Q1728. Which of the two Normalization / Denormalization facilitate better performance ? Which of the two facilitate better space management ?

Database

Ans. DeNormalization facilitate better performance. Normalization remove data duplication and hence facilitate better database space management.

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Q1729. Which of the following databases - Cassandra / Oracle - provides more flexibility about querying the database ?

Database

Ans. Oracle as it is not modeled for a particular query or set of queries.

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Q1730. What could be the driving force to have dependencies injected through class than through config file while using IOC or Dependency Injection ?

Design

Ans. Unit Testing

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Q1731. Which is the best NoSql Database for Performance ?

NoSql

Ans. Possible Answer - doument base - monogodb

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Q1732. Why do we use Thread Class as well as Runnable Interface for creating threads in Java ?

Core Java

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Q1733. Why can we have a static inner class but not a static Top level class in Java ?

Core Java

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Q1734. Which components of AWS are you using in your project ?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Ans. We are using EC2 and Lambda for computing, RDS for Database , S3 for Storage , SQS and Kinesis for streaming and queue and CloudWatch for monitoring.

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Q1735. How do you keep yourself aupdated with the changes in technologies ?

General

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Q1736. Design a Database Schema to store Employee Information with each employee having multiple addresses.

Database

Ans. We can have 2 entities i.e EMPLOYEE and ADDRESS and can have a relationship Table , EMPLOYEE_ADDRESS having one to may relationship between the two.

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Q1737. Write a SQL to find 2nd Max value in a Table.

Database

Ans. SELECT MIN(FIELD) FROM (SELECT TOP 2 FIELD FROM TABLE ORDER BY FIELD DESC)

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SELECT MAX(FIELD) FROM TABLE WHERE FIELD NOT IN (SELECT MAX(FIELD) FROM TABLE)

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Q1738. How do you use Mock frmaework to test webservices in any of your previous project ?

Testing

Ans. We were having client methods to call web services and were mocking the client method call using Mockito.

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Q1739. What do you do when told to do something that you don't agree with?

General

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Q1740. Can we use primitive types with Collection classes ?

Core Java

Ans. No, As collection classes involve use of Generics, they cannot accept primitive types.

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