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Ans. It's a configuration for auto scaling environment that specify the attributes / conditions for scaling instances up and down. For example - We may like environment to scale up when the number of requests / sec increases a particular threshold and scale down when it decreases below a threshold.
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Ans. A shard is a uniquely identified group of data records in a stream or we can say that Shard is a partition in Kinesis stream. A shard supports a fixed bandwidth i.e fixed number of messages per second. The total capacity of the stream is the sum of the capacities of its shards. If the data rate changes, we can allocate / deallocate more shards to accommodate that.
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Ans. OOPs or Object Oriented Programming is a Programming model which is organized around Objects instead of processes. Instead of a process calling series of processes, this model stresses on communication between objects. Objects that all self sustained, provide security by encapsulating it's members and providing abstracted interfaces over the functions it performs. OOP's facilitate the following features
1. Inheritance for Code Reuse
2. Abstraction for modularity, maintenance and agility
3. Encapsulation for security and protection
4. Polymorphism for flexibility and interfacing
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Ans. The operator instanceOf is used to verify if the specified object is the instance of specified class or interface.
Syntax if(x instanceOf ABC)
where x is an object reference and ABC could be a class name or interface name. The above statement will be true if x holds an object that is an instance of ABC or any of the child class of ABC or if x holds an object that implements ABC.
instanceOf operator is used to verify in case of downcasting. For ex -
DerivedClass extends BaseClass
x is the reference of BaseClass but holds DerivedClass object ( Polymorphism )
There is an operation that is defined in Derived Class, let's say derivedClassMethod()
We cannot call derivedClassMethod() directly using x as x is reference of BaseClass and not DerivedClass and hence can only access methods that are defined in BaseClass and overridden in derived class.
Though we can cast it to DerivedClass as following
((DerivedClass)x).derivedClassMethod();
But it may throw ClassCastException in case x doesn't hold an instance of DerivedClass at that point.
So before casting it to DerivedClass we may like to make sure that it is an instance of DerivedClass and hence won't throw ClassCastException.
Ans. Encapsulation is a feature of OOP's that binds the data and it's associated methods together as a single unit and facilitate protection and data hiding by providing minimal interface to outside. For example - member variables are declared private and are accessed through public methods. Moreover we have private methods that can only be used internally and hence providing minimal interface to outside class through use of public methods.
Ans. We can copy the elements to a Set and then find the difference of count between ArrayList and Set. As Set don't allow duplicates , they will be removed in the set.
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Ans. ArrayLists aren't synchronized and hence doesn't allow synchronized access. As multiple threads can access an arraylist in parallel, it may result in an inconsistent state.
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Ans. It means that only 1 thread can access have access to Vector at a time and no parallel access is allowed whereas Array List allows parallel access by multiple threads.
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Ans. Java Programs are collection of objects that communicates with each other to get a task accomplished. To add to those objects, there are common spaces ( static i.e common for objects belonging to a class ) that are used too.
We can visualize objects as departments of an organization in real world. Just like Task gets initiated in one department and then files are moved across different departments to get work done. In a similar fashion, a task is initiated in one object ( having main method ) and then information ( through POJOs / DTOs ) is moved across objects to accomplish a task.
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Ans. By encapsulating it within another class and declaring it private. In such a case, it will only be accessible through parent class or parent class object.
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Ans. Single instance means there is only 1 instance that will bear all the traffic load whereas Load balanced server means that there will be a cluster of servers that will host the application and load will be balanced distributed among them. Auto Scaling means that the number of instances will be expanded / shrunken based on the rule. Rule could be the traffic count , response time etc.
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Ans. Load Balancing is a provision to improve performance by reducing load on a single machine / server. Traffic or load is distributed among different machines and hence resulting in better performance / response time by leveraging more resources.
Failover is a provision to achieve better availability by switching to a backup server in case of failure.
Load Balancing aims as improving performance whereas failover aims at improving availability.
We can achieve both together by using a Load Balancing system which will isolate an instance in case of it's failure.
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Ans. Conversion means that the expression / literal / value of one type getting converted to other type.
Widening conversion is the conversion from Type A to Type B where B requires a wider space than A. For example - int to long, float to double, char to String etc. As the value moves to a wider space, there is no loss of information.
Narrowing conversion is the conversion from Type A to Type B where B requires a narrower space space than A. For example - int to long, float to double, char to String etc.As the value moves to a narrower space, there is a loss of information.
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Ans. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources like Beanstalk and DB instances. We can use CloudWatch to monitor the state of resources, collect metrices, set alarms and appropriate response to the alarm state.
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